IoT has moved from nice to have to operationally critical. Using IoT to automate tasks can improve workforce efficiency, better utilize assets, and predict...

Low unemployment rates may be good news for workers, but they present big challenges for heavy civil construction companies struggling to fill openings in...

Most enterprise software applications do not yet have features that deal with the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). There are standalone...

Jim Hammond knows a thing or two about dirt. In the early 2000s, Jim Hammond did something historic in his life. He decides to shift...

The construction industry began embracing the lean methodology—the idea of eliminating waste (wasted time, wasted movement, wasted potential), improving productivity, and maximizing value—in the...

Managing and following a defined schedule is imperative to keeping heavy civil construction operations moving. These complex projects rely on coordinated activities among employees,...

While it’s been widely reported that construction has been slower to adapt to new digital technologies than most industries, it’s changing fast. Now it...

The commercial construction industry has an efficiency problem. According to a study by McKinsey, construction has had the lowest productivity gains of any industry...

For many years, contractors have relied on paper as well as a variety of methods to manage their accounting needs. One main challenge was...

It’s not often that a technique or technology comes along that gets total buy-in from general contractors and permanently changes an industry for the...