Schools and industry employers boost employee non-technical core skills—from communication to team dynamics—as pandemic-altered learning and work environments have hurt real-world skills engagement.
ENR Southwest's 2021 Project of the Year is a 182,000-sq-ft temporary care facility that could serve up to 1,400 COVID-19 patients—and was designed and built in only 10 days.
ENR California assembled a group of judges with varying specialties and expertise in the construction industry to review, score and determine the winners of ENR's annual Regional Best projects competition.
Labor rates remain relatively steady despite pandemic upheavals, but analysts noted some short-term adjustments to compensation by construction employers in 2020 with ongoing labor shortages continuing to pressure wages.
Totaling only one-quarter mile in length, the $172-million AirTrain extension significantly enhanced connectivity at San Francisco International Airport.
Last year, as the pandemic upended the construction industry, contractors hatched a plan to come together. Determined to keep jobsites open and deemed essential around the U.S., a group of contractors partnered on turnkey coronavirus prevention protocols for all companies to use.
President Biden's vaccine mandate has left many businesses, including in construction, uncertain about what's next. But legal experts say there are ways to prepare.
Erica Berardi, editor of ENR California and Northwest, speaks with Mark Hartney, partner at Allen Matkins, about what’s next in construction and contracts in the age of COVID-19.
When the first COVID-related restrictions came down on U.S. construction sites in the spring of 2020, many contractors were caught flat-footed compiling information on workers and visitors for contact tracing.
