Cloud services saved many projects during the pandemic, but designers, contractors and owners need to change their work processes to unleash the full power of them.
The building trades in modern America have long been a path to the middle class, and construction apprentice training provides more than a middle-class income. The jobs are a path out of endless financial worry.
Biden's Go Big infrastructure initiative is the right idea, but three months into the process, it is leaking political capital at a mortal pace. The infrastructure community must be at the table to maintain focus and breathe life into this critical effort.
Construction industry is fragmented, and that’s why the industry produced standards to organize and track hundreds of thousands of items that come together for a building. We may, finally, be at a point where data moving across construction phases is finally here.
Push reset so underrepresented groups can fit into workplaces historically designed to exclude them, or, at best, were designed without them, says a veteran union electrician.
The National Building Museum turned 40 last year, but rather than slowing down, the Washington, D.C., institution has kicked into high gear as it reopens with a new executive director and a stronger emphasis on critical issues facing the construction industry today.