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When Adam Hergenrother discovered that most of the bathtubs in a 56-unit Alzheimer’s care facility his company built were installed improperly, he didn’t immediately look for...

You’ve developed a technology roadmap for your company and prioritized where you want your tech dollars to go over the next few years. Now you’re ready to put your latest big...

Sweating it out in the heat on a jobsite is no fun and can even be dangerous, which is why it’s so important for employers to have a heat illness prevention plan . But heat-related...

Passion, personality and availability all count. In the construction industry, lessons learned from a book can take an employee only so far. Most skills are honed on the job over...

Composite materials, sometimes referred to as fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP), combine the properties of a polymer (resin) and natural or man-made fibers to produce strong yet...

In construction, design-bid-build (D/B/B) used to be the name of the game. Slowly but surely, however, other, more collaborative, project delivery methods are taking its place. And...

Doing a material takeoff right means you'll order only the materials you need, in the quantities and types you need. This can not only save you on money and labor costs, but also...

The U.S. construction industry added 25,000 new jobs in 20 mai18, while unemployment in the industry stands at just 4.4 percent, the lowest rate in 18 years. In this tight labor...

Most general contractors started out as specialty contractors. “Some of the biggest companies in the world started out in a garage. Bechtel started off small and grew,” said Tom...

Conflicts are inevitable. It's how you handle them that counts. It’s no secret that conflict happens on construction projects. Most flareups — whether between a project manager and...