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ENR 2024 Year in Construction Photo Contest

February 14, 2024

Via: ENR

The wonderful flood of entries to our annual Year in Construction photo contest was overwhelming—both literally to our online entry system, and emotionally in the spectacle and drama that many of the photos depicted. This year’s jury, along with ENR […]


Sustainability

Fixing construction’s racism problem will take an industrywide effort

October 23, 2020

Via: Construction Dive

Construction has a racism problem. So far in 2020, nearly 20 reported incidents of flagrant racism took place on construction jobsites throughout North America, from nooses hung where workers of color would find them, to racist screeds of graffiti spewing […]


Sustainability

A timeline of racist incidents on US and Canadian construction sites

October 19, 2020

Via: Construction Dive

Since early this summer, Construction Dive has reported on a slew of racist incidents on construction jobsites, from racial epithets scrawled on the walls of portable toilets to nooses hung where Black workers would find them. In other incidents, workers […]


Sustainability

Study finds COVID-19 protocols led to a 7% loss on construction projects

August 11, 2020

Via: Construction Dive

The study looked at productivity data for more than 113,000 labor hours performed by mechanical, electrical and plumbing contractors from January through May 2020 at commercial construction jobsites ranging from high rise apartments to K-12 school projects, government facilities, food […]


Construction Techniques

Autonomous security bot monitors construction jobsites with facial recognition technology

January 9, 2020

Via: Construction Dive

After testing Ziva as a security solution in different environments, Casta decided on the construction industry as its main audience, Cary said. Ziva’s long-battery life, speed and unique applications make it an attractive alternative to traditional security systems for projects, […]