Industry Updates
AECOM Partners With USACE on an Alternate Care Facility
AECOM partners with the United States Army Corps of Engineers on an alternate care facility at SUNY Old Westbury, N.Y. During the video, several employees talk about why this project meant so much to them.
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Builders Start Work on a New Hotel and Residential Tower in Chicago
Builders started work on a new hotel and residential tower on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. The project will create more than 500 on-site construction jobs and more than 70 permanent positions.
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How to Keep K-12 and Higher Education Projects on Budget
Budgeting for K-12 and higher education facilities comes with its own set of considerations and challenges. This is especially the case for public schools, which typically rely on state funding to finance these projects and often have limited means through which they can raise funds themselves. In California, for example, public K-12 schools rely on […]
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Prepare Your Operations for the Impacts of Climate Change
In recent years, weather conditions have been shaken up by the effects of climate change. Winters get warmer while the number of natural disasters we see each year seems to increase. Some builders may hesitate to adjust to these conditions, but according to construction lawyer Kimberly Hurtado, the time to act is now. In her […]
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Builders Should Prepare For More Innovations With Drones
Reflecting on the past decade, it’s remarkable how technology has become more interwoven into our daily lives and work. From the first tablets and smart watches to battery-powered cars and consumer drones, technology has changed the world around us in ways we wouldn’t have imagined back in 2010. The same could be said about how […]
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Bowa Construction Grows With Innovation and a Focus on Building Communities
The state-of-the-art, 139,000-square-foot Gately Park Indoor Track and Field facility in Chicago was a Bowa project. Bowa Construction has completed more than 200 projects, and it maintains a repeat client rate of 95 percent. This is a level of loyalty that many construction managers and general contractors strive for, but Bowa is able to achieve […]
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Mechanical Contractors Should Embrace BIM
When we think of contractors using building information modeling (BIM), we tend to think of the people constructing facilities or houses, and not mechanical or HVAC contractors. But a new study from Dodge Data & Analytics shows that the latter can benefit from its use as well. For example, BIM can help these contractors improve the fabrication […]
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Firms Should Reconsider Using Arbitration for Resolutions
It is time for the construction industry to reject the notion that arbitration is the best way to resolve all construction disputes. It is not. Arbitration, when appropriate, must be tailored to the specific project. In other instances, it should be avoided. This rejection of the cognitive bias towards arbitration may inflame those who financially […]
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Wearables Give Builders Jobsite Visibility
Every day, it seems like we’re introduced to a new innovation that makes work on a jobsite easier and safer. But how about one that the worker doesn’t actually carry to the jobsite, but instead wears and provides them with motion and location data? According to SmartBrief, this is the world of the wearable tech industry, which […]
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Avoid Project Headaches With the Right Application
A construction company is not really a single business, but rather is a collection of projects that operate autonomously as their own profit and loss centers. If projects are successful, the construction business is successful. However, one unprofitable project could have immediate and long-term catastrophic effects on the business. This can happen due to the lack […]
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