4 Steps to Lower Embodied Carbon

More than ever, contractors, manufacturers, owners, and designers are setting time-bound sustainability commitments to encourage low-carbon construction and keep our planet at safe global...
Compensation Management

Compensation Strategies: Keep Your Most Talented

With U.S. unemployment rates at generational lows, construction companies face one of the most severe talent shortages ever. Faced with this challenge, companies are...

Schedule Makeover

By Garrett Harley After a challenging year, many industries are navigating still uncertain waters and adjusting their business models to adapt to whatever the future...

Streamlining Success

Proactive cost control can help construction fleets considerably when it comes to staying competitive in the market, but the industry is grappling with the...

Four Handoffs Contractors Should Check

A crew can finish the work, pack the truck, and leave the site while the job remains incomplete for billing. The office may still be...

Workplace Zombies: How to Avoid the Living Dead

By Kate Zabriskie Promoting engagement one person at a time Zombies in the workplace are soul-sucking, money-draining, productivity-killing entities that chip away at an organization’s spirit...

Key Characteristics

To start building a construction business that works, list and identify all the things that don’t work well in your company. Then, look at...

Tool Tracking Solution

Building a successful contracting business is hard work—there’s no doubt about that. Every day you face challenges that threaten to impact project deadlines, profits,...
Construction Communication Technology

Construction Communication Technology Trends

There is little room for communication errors in hazardous and demanding fields like construction. It’s imperative for workers to communicate with each other and...

IT Security

Pity the poor chief information security officer (CISO). On one hand, their needs are real: emergent cybersecurity threats are increasingly sophisticated and numerous. On...