Tag: construction techniques

June 16, 2023

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are a mature technology that is already widely used at the state and municipal levels for a variety of purposes. Location data has a high value in asset management. However, there continues to be a disconnect […]

May 22, 2023

Wood is the concrete of the future. As timber construction becomes increasingly popular, you have probably heard this phrase. However, we are not talking about traditional construction techniques using timber, but rather about this well-known material combined with cutting-edge technology. […]

November 16, 2022

It was the pandemic that finally made Prevost Construction’s use of data intelligence look really smart. The Carlsbad, California-based general contractor had already been harvesting budget and planning data from its binders and hard drives manually since 2015. When the […]

September 26, 2022

Generation Z comprises people born after 1995. They grew along with the popularization of the internet and interact with the world by integrating all forms of available technology. The diversity of available media, the speed in information traffic, the interactivity […]

September 19, 2022

“We should admit nature as an immense multitude of forms, including each part of us, who are part of everything”, says Ailton Krenak, renowned indigenous leader, in his book Ideas to Postpone the End of the World. The culture of […]

March 10, 2022

In celebration of Women in Construction Week, the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) and Safe Site Check In today announced the results of the “Digital Technology in Construction: 2022” survey. Participants included 600 women throughout the United States […]

December 7, 2021

The benefits of mass timber construction are many. It’s beautiful. It’s sustainable. And it’s more quickly assembled. But there’s one major challenge: Sound control is always an issue when the mass timber is left exposed on the ceiling. Unwanted noise, […]

December 6, 2021

As technology improves, so do construction techniques – often in ways that can be complex to understand. With so many burgeoning trends and methodologies, it can be challenging to decide which opportunities are worth the investment needed to properly evaluate […]

July 28, 2020

While there are two primary project delivery methods — design-bid-build and design-build — the role of the construction manager has spawned other delivery methods that are gaining attention: Construction Manager as Constructor (CMc), Construction Manager as Advisor (CMa) and Construction […]

May 26, 2020

While contractors and their legal advisers try to work out how the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated mandatory project shutdowns will affect future jobsite operations and profitability, it’s worth looking ahead to what kind of contract terms construction companies could […]

December 20, 2019

A lot of noteworthy movement in the modular building market this year meant that the headlines really started stacking up. The year began with a National Institute of Building Sciences survey in which most contractors responding said they use offsite […]

October 18, 2019

Building owners in St. Louis could save at least $61.5 million annually by improving energy efficiency in their buildings, according to the city’s first annual Building Energy Benchmarking Report & Checklist to Explore Energy Savings Opportunities report. If building owners, […]

December 29, 2017

As demand grows for more versatile, advanced robotics and other technologies, the need for components that can enable these applications also increases. Producing such components en masse has been a major challenge. But now, in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, […]

December 5, 2017

The future is a scary place when you’re in a red hot industry such as solar construction, because there’s a lot of uncertainty about what’s going to happen next. You’re constantly wondering: Will this keep up? Will some new innovation […]

September 7, 2017

Construction projects that go over budget and off schedule are a nightmare. Just look at one of the biggest construction overrun disasters in history. Everyone in the industry knows about the absolute mess that was Boston’s Big Dig. The city […]

September 5, 2017

As a planet, it is estimated that in the next 20 years we will reach our capacity when it comes to our global consumption of oil. However, demand continually appears to rise as the global production of oil decreases. In […]

September 5, 2017

The wide reach of corrosion, a multitrillion-dollar global problem, may someday be narrowed considerably thanks to a new, better approach to predict how metals react with water. Researchers at Oregon State University and the University of California, Berkeley, have developed […]

August 30, 2017

When you got into the construction business, chances are you were passionate about building stuff, not math. And yet, there aren’t many industries as numbers-heavy as construction, and as a construction manager, you just have to deal with that. That’s […]

August 29, 2017

The developer of a New Jersey condominium development and its architecture firm face a $10 million construction defect verdict in a case involving non-compliance with fire codes. The Grandview I building on the Hudson River, developed by Hovnanian Enterprises’ subsidiary, […]

June 15, 2017

A high-tech takeover is underway in construction, and it’s changing what we build and how we build it. One area in which the trend is particularly apparent is in the growing list of cloud-based workflow management software that lets teams […]