Category: Sustainability

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 9, 2023

Housing may be a human right, but affordable housing—and perhaps even moreso sustainable affordable housing—has become increasingly difficult for the average person to access. This is true both in terms of the private residence as well as public housing, as […]

October 30, 2023

For people outside the construction industry, it comes as a big surprise to learn that concrete is the second most-consumed material in the world after water. While it may sound outrageous, it makes sense – concrete is seemingly everywhere you […]

October 24, 2023

Residential cranes accounted for much of Q1’s count, but in Q3 there were 13% fewer in the surveyed cities. Nonetheless, RLB said residential cranes saw continued consistent growth, along with mixed-use projects, which made up 49% and 23% of the […]

October 12, 2023

The rise in prices was mainly due to a bump in energy costs. In September, prices increased in all three energy subcategories. While natural gas saw a jump of only 0.1%, crude petroleum and unprocessed energy materials rose 10.1% and […]

October 6, 2023

Continuing a recent trend, construction’s workforce grew by 11,000 jobs in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported. It is the sixth-consecutive monthly increase for the industry. In all, construction has added 217,000 jobs on a year-over-year basis, an […]

September 25, 2023

Ask Architects, Engineers, CGs, and Owners about one of the most vexing elements of construction management, and they’ll likely mention the painstaking process of sifting through disparate project data. The crux of the challenge: stakeholders bring their own processes, tools, […]

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 […]

September 18, 2023

One of the megatrends of the 21st century is the unprecedented urbanization of the world’s population. According to the United Nations, more than half of the global population currently live in urban areas, and that number is projected to rise […]

September 13, 2023

Backlog fell on a monthly basis for companies with revenues of less than $100 million a year. That mirrors the slight downturn in monthly numbers from July to August as overall industry backlog, including private development, dipped 1.1% lower. But […]

August 28, 2023

U.S. architectural firms report that their business generally is holding steady, according to the latest monthly index from the American Institute of Architects and Deltek. The AIA/Deltek Architectural Billings Index (ABI) for July, released on Aug. 23, showed a score […]

August 23, 2023

Colorado’s Air Quality Control Commission adopted building energy performance standards Aug. 17 aimed at decreasing operational carbon and associated greenhouse gas emissions in most buildings 50,000 sq ft or bigger. The goal of Regulation 28, set by a 2021 state […]

August 21, 2023

With infrastructure and industrial construction on the rise, rough terrain cranes that may have been sitting unused are now plugging away on jobs across the U.S., Canada and Mexico. A crucial asset in any crane fleet, the RT is versatile, […]

August 14, 2023

ISN, the global leader in contractor and supplier information management, released its Orange Book – 2023 Edition: The Bold Work of the Future. The bi-annual publication uses data-driven analytics and industry leader insights to share examples of how best-in-class companies […]

August 10, 2023

Interest in adaptive reuse projects, particularly office-to-multifamily conversions, rose following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, both as a housing solution and a means to bring activity back to downtown areas, according to RentCafe. Despite making up the majority of […]

August 3, 2023

Keeping it green and maintaining sustainable construction practices has become a top priority for our industry. Construction currently makes up approximately 39% of the world’s carbon emissions, according to the World Build Green Council. Contractors around the world are working […]

August 3, 2023

In addition to demolishing withered facilities, schools are finding themselves taking a sledgehammer to something else in light of the pandemic: building improvement plans themselves. “They’ve had to revisit the size of their portfolio and facilities” for school construction projects, […]

July 28, 2023

Construction project managers are always looking for ways to help projects run more efficiently. When you save time, you’re also saving money and helping to keep your project on-budget. Here are five areas project managers should focus on to increase […]

July 18, 2023

The historic Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act has begun pouring billions of dollars into improving our roads, bridges, transportation systems, broadband access and more. This work will return the U.S. to the vanguard of infrastructure innovation and literally transform the […]

July 17, 2023

Sustainable construction aims to drastically reduce a building’s energy consumption and environmental impact throughout all phases of the construction process. In practice this is achieved by carefully considering site factors, implementing passive design strategies, installing energy-efficient appliances, utilizing sustainable materials, […]