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There is something important happening in Oregon, Washington and Colorado that deserves serious attention from the new Transportation secretary and Congress.

What if the U.S. East Coast had a blackout for two weeks or, say, two years.

Several websites devoted to human resources offer checklists and other guidance for what to do when an employee dies on the job.

The Trump administration’s rapidly evolving policies on health care, deregulation and infrastructure present the construction industry with numerous opportunities and hazards.

"Means and methods” is a compact legalism meant to apply to everything that takes place at a construction jobsite.

Insuring our data integrity and permanence is possible, for a price, but there is a system that does it exceedingly well, at no charge.

Project failures don’t just happen. Failed projects are deliberately sought out and pursued by overeager contractors.

When I met John Shook, one of the world’s leading lean management experts in Boston at the Lean Construction Institute Congress in 2015, a colleague asked him how far the construction industry in the U.S. has come with lean construction after 17 years.