Tag: featured

December 7, 2023

Half of workers decided to give their two weeks’ notice at a previous position because they felt underappreciated, according to a survey on two weeks’ notice submission conducted by Monster in November. Other reasons given? Their salary was too low […]

December 6, 2023

The safety of construction workers is undoubtedly of utmost importance. Construction hazards are rampant and extremely dangerous. The field is known for these dangers, but some lesser-known issues need to be brought to light. The mental well-being of construction employees […]

December 6, 2023

A pair of grants are set to boost two major West Coast intercity passenger rail projects. The U.S. Dept. of Transportation awarded $3.1 billion for California High-Speed Rail construction and $3 billion toward building the planned Brightline West project to […]

December 5, 2023

United Airlines and the Houston Airport System are planning a $2.6-billion Terminal B Transformation Program at Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport. The airline has selected Clark Construction Group and Manhattan Construction Co. to build separate pieces of the project. The […]

December 5, 2023

The heads of Dallas-based contractors AECOM and Jacobs, Montreal-headquartered WSP and other major construction firms have identified water projects as a growing market. Beyond pipe replacement, resilience, flooding, stormwater and other climate change-related water work is booming, buoyed by the […]

November 29, 2023

Project awards are the lifeblood of every construction firm, as they indicate new work and future revenue. Here, Construction Dive tracks the top project wins recently announced by the country’s biggest contractors, ranging from a solar facility and a port […]

November 28, 2023

The holidays are upon us, and the season’s cheer is spreading everywhere from the home to the workplace. It’s once again time for Construction Dive’s annual Holiday Lights contest and we ask contractors to join in the festive competition. (See […]

November 28, 2023

In February, JE Dunn, a Kansas City, Missouri-based construction firm, broke ground on a 677-foot-tall office tower in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. The $600 million project, which will be the new corporate headquarters for insurance company Mutual of Omaha, includes 800,000 […]

November 27, 2023

For decades, the professional football and baseball teams in San Diego, Calif., played inside a brutalist bowl of concrete sitting in a sea of 18,870 paved parking spaces. When it came time to demolish the former Jack Murphy Stadium and […]

November 27, 2023

All robots, as well as the paint shop and other equipment in automaker Rivian’s Normal, Ill., production facility were designed by its in-house team, which also did design of parts for its R1S and R1T electric vehicles. The Biden administration’s […]

November 22, 2023

While the construction starts report measures projects that have broken ground, the American Institute of Architects’ Architecture Billings Index tracks building design work for jobs to come. That index, which leads actual construction by nine to 12 months, continued to […]

November 21, 2023

Before a panel of experts at this month’s Design-Build Conference & Expo told contractors how to implement BIM on jobsites, they confessed to their crimes. The three BIM pros pulled up a slide deck, complete with their “mugshots,” which detailed […]

November 21, 2023

After years of delays and political fights, construction finally began Nov. 3 on the Hudson River Tunnel portion of the Gateway Program, a $16.1 billion group of projects that will double capacity for the Northeast Corridor rail segment connecting New […]

November 20, 2023

As a forum where risk and insurance is discussed in much, if not all, of its infinite complexity—project-specific designer liability, workers compensation loss ratios, claims documentation—the International Risk Management Institute’s Construction Risk Conference can fill your head with information, ideas […]

November 20, 2023

In a world increasingly dominated by commercial development projects and inaccessible public housing, it can be difficult to find examples of architecture that take into account the concerns, needs, and livelihoods of the communities they serve. The best community architecture […]

November 15, 2023

“Construction tech actually outperforms, as an asset class, the entire venture market,” said Patric Hellermann, general partner at Foundamental, in a video accompanying the firm’s blog post. “So it’s not driven by a general ‘rising tides lifts all boats’ logic. […]

November 15, 2023

Within the shifts in architectural movements and styles, furniture design has also evolved throughout the years, transitioning from elaborate curvy lines and opulent materials to simple and functional layouts, and back again, in constant movement. As it continues to evolve, […]

November 15, 2023

A proposed rule from the U.S. Dept. of Labor to broaden its regulation about employee representation on workplace safety inspections has drawn widespread opposition from contractors. The change would allow workers to select a representative employed by a third party. […]

November 14, 2023

The push to bring manufacturing back to the United States is unlike anything Didi Caldwell has seen in her career. Private companies have spent more than half a trillion dollars since 2021 to onshore facilities back to the U.S., according […]

November 13, 2023

Infrastructure and capital projects are being hit hard by rising financing costs, inflation and expensive lawsuits, but the latter issue is one builders have some power to mitigate. Contractors can empower themselves by understanding the causes of cost disputes and […]