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ENR Responds to Crisis, Bids Farewell to Veteran Editors

Janice L. Tuchman

March 18, 2020

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This week, we bring you intensive coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Modular Construction, Prefabrication and BIM

Technology

SmartMarket Report Highlights How BIM Planning Enables Prefabrication and Modular Construction

Contractors say designers not adequately enabling prefabrication and modular

Jeff Yoders

February 13, 2020

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New SmartMarket Report on prefabrication and modular construction updates 2011 Dodge research that focused only on prefabrication.

Economic Indicators

Commentary: An Idea For a New Predictor of Construction’s Future

John Zander

February 4, 2020

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Consultant offers one leading indicator to test industry economic winds.

Contractors Must Develop an Effective Data Strategy to Compete in Today's Market

Automation of repetitive tasks and reality capture are key technologies

Lauren Collier

January 16, 2020

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It's not enough to practice virtual design and construction anymore. Today's contractors must develop an effective data strategy beyond individual projects.

Time to Settle the Building Code Lawsuit

Richard Korman

January 15, 2020

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Judging from the court docket, there’s been a four-month period of comparative legal silence in the copyright violation lawsuit by the International Code Council, which publishes the model building code widely used in North America, against UpCodes, a San Francisco-based company that provides searchable databases of published state and local building codes and related tools for designers.

Images and The Construction Industry

ENR's 2019 Contest Winners: All The Photos Show and What They Don't

What the age of digitization adds to the craving for the corporeal

Richard Korman

January 8, 2020

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Why in this age of digitization we reap so much joy from photos whose subject is very solid and corporeal world of construction.

Fixed-Price Issues Affect Engineers Too!

December 12, 2019

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Professional liability attorney David Hatem speaks out on project risk imbalance.

Viewpoint on Civic Activism

Commentary: The Taxes That Made Seattle The City It Is Today

Two contrasting lives related to a growing metropolis and Washington State

Richard Korman

December 11, 2019

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A look at two contrasting lives and what they say about a growing city and its state voters.

Should Contractors and engineers be tech companies?

Should Designers and Contractors Become Technology Companies?

Donna Huey

December 5, 2019

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Design firms and construction companies absolutely should become technology companies, but becoming a tech company is much different than becoming a software company.

Viewpoint: Don't Force Kids to Choose the College Career Path

Michael Zinniger

December 3, 2019

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At the start of my son’s junior year in high school, I tagged along with him to meet with his school career counselor to discuss post-graduation plans.