Tag: engineering

February 5, 2024

As the industry faces ongoing challenges such as labor shortages and low project margins, they are adopting digital technologies like AI to automate and optimize their operations and cloud-based solutions to simplify fragmented IT systems. To add predictable, recurring revenue […]

October 19, 2023

The Pankow Foundation is immensely disappointed anNo one disagrees that construction lags in innovation and that everything from restrictive building codes to exaggerated perceptions of risk hold us back. Now two decades old, the Charles Pankow Foundation (CPF) seeks to […]

September 21, 2023

While high financing costs and lingering recession fears have yet to stymie contractors’ strong backlog levels, those headwinds have slowed the mergers and acquisitions market for construction and engineering firms, said Tristan Tahmaseb, vice president at ButcherJoseph & Co., a […]

August 15, 2023

Legislation passed since 2021, including the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Inflation Reduction Act and the CHIPS and Science Act, collectively authorized federal investments of nearly $1.9 trillion over a period of years and spurred additional investments from the private […]

June 6, 2023

In an industry with low project margins, a high level of unpredictability, and fierce competition (both domestic and international), it does not take much to turn a profitable project into a loss-making project, putting the whole business at risk. That […]

April 14, 2023

Do you remember seeing images of designers leaning over large sheets of paper, usually in spaces that resemble warehouses, concentrating on their own technical drawings? While some may view these images with nostalgia for a simpler time as a sign […]

March 17, 2023

Saulsbury Industries is a full-service provider of engineering, procurement, and construction solutions for clients in the energy and heavy industrial sectors. Since its inception in 1994, the company has earned a reputation for delivering high-quality and safe projects across eight […]

February 8, 2023

After a Flatiron Construction-Zachry Group joint venture struck out on all but one of its arbitrated claims against engineering firm partners on the I-85/385 design-build interchange project in Greenville, S.C., the contractors had one more source from which to try […]

January 30, 2023

Many construction and engineering companies are so focused on winning projects that they overlook the importance of managing plant and equipment cost-effectively. With sector margins tight, it’s a dangerous oversight. Chris Knight, Global Industry Director for Construction and Engineering at […]

May 19, 2022

If necessity is the mother of invention, the LBJ Express megaproject in Dallas, Texas, is a case study in pioneering engineering design and forward-thinking financing. This award-winning project stands as the largest and most complex mixed highway ever designed in […]

May 9, 2022

Two Georgia contractors have received federal citations with proposed penalties of nearly $57,000 for their roles in an October 2021 bridge demolition collapse that killed one worker and injured another. An investigation by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration […]

November 15, 2021

The technical needs of the construction of bridges many times guide the development of the design itself. However, architecture is never put aside, rather the opposite. The aesthetics of bridges that we collect in this article are the result of […]

October 27, 2021

Construction employment carries with it a perception that the work does not pay well or is more likely to be affected by an economic downturn than other fields. These fears are not entirely unfounded, said Priya Kapila, compensation practice leader […]

September 1, 2021

The move marks the second time in less than three months that the construction company has opened a new office in the western U.S. In May, the firm launched a market expansion with the unveiling of its Los Angeles-area office […]

March 11, 2021

While in a lot of countries around the world, the construction, architecture, engineering, and urban planning sectors, are still reserved for men, initiatives that empower women in these fields are surfacing everywhere around the globe. Playing a huge role in […]

October 7, 2019

The complete findings from our inaugural Giants 300 Technology and Innovation Study are now published and available for download at BDCnetwork.com/2019TechSurvey. This 12-question survey was emailed to all 486 firms that participated in BD+C’s 2019 Giants 300 Report; 130 firms […]

June 26, 2019

When it comes to adopting advanced AEC tech tools and processes, the nation’s largest architecture, engineering, and construction firms are feeling good, but not great, about their progress when compared with their direct competitors. About half (42%) say their firm […]

April 26, 2019

So far this year, the Illinois Tollway has awarded almost $376 million of construction and engineering contracts to advance its $14 billion, 15-year Move Illinois capital program. The authority has invested $6.7 billion in the initiative since it began in […]

April 24, 2019

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chancellor Robert Jones and local academic and civic leaders recently broke ground on a new Campus Instructional Facility that is meant to celebrate the cooperation between architecture and engineering. The structure celebrates how architecture and […]

February 8, 2019

McDermott International on Tuesday said that it had been awarded — along with joint venture partners Chiyoda International Corp. and Zachry Group — a “mega contract” to build the Golden Pass project. McDermott did not release the exact contract amount […]