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What Record Build Costs Mean for the Value Engineering Conversation

In construction, you need to give something to get something. Unfortunately, many construction professionals focus solely on initial construction costs rather than evaluating the overall value of a...

Why Cold Temperatures Are Harder on Site Equipment Than Most Crews Expect

Your loader may have run fine yesterday. After the first hard frost, it cranks slowly, the boom crawls and a hose starts leaking. You lose half a day sorting it out. Cold affects how batteries,...

Three Ways to Rebuild a Highway While the Traffic Keeps Moving

When you rebuild a busy highway, you need somewhere for traffic to go and ground that can support the changes. Your success depends on how carefully you select a method based on detour capacity,...

Why smart businesses are turning to battery storage to cut energy costs

As electricity costs become increasingly volatile and more organisations generate their own renewable energy, battery energy storage systems (BESS) are transforming the way businesses buy, store and...

How to Preserve Expert Construction Knowledge in an Era of High Turnover

When your veteran foreman retires, you lose years of judgment about sequencing work, spotting trouble and keeping a crew moving. Across the construction industry, experienced hands are leaving faster...

How Texas Contractors Are Using Advanced Equipment to Overcome Labor Shortages

The construction labor shortage in Texas has been persistent, but advanced heavy equipment is proving to mitigate its risks. When crews are short-staffed, contractors may have to stretch schedules,...

Why the biggest innovation in construction might be learning to say no

Should contractors challenge unrealistic programmes, incomplete designs and poor decisions more often? The construction industry is keen to embrace innovation, but one of its most valuable...

Benches are more than just comfortable seating: Their key role in optimising dwell time

In recent years, perceptions of the traditional town centre have changed. Accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, high streets have now become a vital hub for leisure, entertainment and community,...

Why fire performance is about the system, not the material

There is a persistent assumption by some in construction that a construction product’s individual fire classification will determine how safe a building will be. It does not, and new independent...