Passion, personality and availability all count. In the construction industry, lessons learned from a book can take an employee only so far. Most skills are honed on the job over...

Composite materials, sometimes referred to as fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP), combine the properties of a polymer (resin) and natural or man-made fibers to produce strong yet...

Materials management has a huge impact on project productivity, not to mention project costs. Whether you’re constantly bringing in deliveries, wasting time sitting around waiting...

In construction, design-bid-build (D/B/B) used to be the name of the game. Slowly but surely, however, other, more collaborative, project delivery methods are taking its place. And...

Construction has a well-known productivity problem. Where other industries have seen significant productivity improvements over the last decades, construction has all but stagnated...

Doing a material takeoff right means you'll order only the materials you need, in the quantities and types you need. This can not only save you on money and labor costs, but also...

Sustainable development has typically been defined as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs...

Hiring the most talented candidates is only the first step toward being successful in the construction industry. Top construction firms also have extremely potent onboarding...

Contractors who use building information modeling (BIM) software enjoy many benefits, including improved collaboration among building partners, earlier resolution of clashing...

The U.S. construction industry added 25,000 new jobs in May 2018, while unemployment in the industry stands at just 4.4 percent, the lowest rate in 18 years. In this tight labor...