“The number of open, unfilled construction jobs remained extraordinarily low in October,” said ABC Chief Economist Anirban ...

After 43 days of a government shutdown—the longest in U.S. history—Congress has finally returned to Washington, D.C., just in ...

Overall construction input prices were 3.5% higher than in September 2024, while nonresidential construction input prices ...

Several key factors have contributed to the downturn of shopping malls: Online shopping has fundamentally altered consumer ...

Like AI, exoskeletons are no long some far-off tech fantasy. They're very real and so are their benefits on construction jobsites.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 20—The construction industry added 19,000 jobs on net in September, according to an Associated Builders and ...

Hybrid cost-plus contracting with lump-sum general conditions can have administrative advantages for contractors and owners. Effectiveness depends on project scale and whether parties accurately ...

Subcontractor risk takes many forms. Managing the risks is one of the central challenges faced by every general contractor. Here are four types of risk posed by subcontractors and some ways to ...

As Hurricane Melissa made landfall this week as a category five storm, it serves as a stark reminder to the construction industry to always be prepared, even at the end of storm season. Along ...

TRIR—total recordable incident rate—has long served as the standard metric for tracking workplace injuries. However, events with the potential to result in a serious injury and fatality—or ...

The many benefits of BIM include reduced costs and risk; improved collaboration, clash detection, sequencing, scheduling, safety, quality and post-construction management; and increase in ...

This is the 10th article in the Precision Construction series, which explores the application of the Internet of Things to digitally transform the construction industry, ultimately with the objective ...