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Workforce development strategies are all about building and boosting your company’s workforce for the future. Of course, looking forward to and recognizing the kind of workforce your firm will require in the future makes producing a strategy more challenging Read Full Article

Want to build a building? First, hire an architect to design it. Then send the plans out for bids, and then hire the low bid contractor to build it. That’s the conventional design-bid-build process, and while you can still Read Full Article

A general construction superintendent watches over each stage of a construction project, from the early planning to its conclusion. There are superintendents who concentrate on public works projects, including highways and bridges. Others specialize in constructing houses or other Read Full Article

Every organization aims to recruit and hang on to the best employees they can to make sure they are not only productive but successful in realizing business goals. Human resources professionals, managers and other administrative personnel may use a Read Full Article

Construction Project Management: Where Does It Stand Just think back to what construction project management was like ten years ago. Fewer methods, fewer tools, smaller teams and easier-to-understand projects, with tons of paperwork and manual checking of every project Read Full Article

Without organization, a construction project will most likely fall to pieces. This is true in all phases, but particularly when it comes to job site inventory. Construction projects entail transferring and keeping track of countless materials and pieces of Read Full Article

In today’s highly competitive talent market, your employer brand is essential in helping your company attract the right persons. Did you know that when making a decision on where they should apply for a job, 84 percent of jobseekers Read Full Article

Most commercial, institutional, industrial and educational owners are busy with their core operations or projects. Most residential owners are even busier with their own lives, families and businesses. Few have the know-how or technical expertise essential to manage their Read Full Article

If you seem to be stuck in a rut and you’re not securing a sufficient number of interviews, it simply makes sense to utilize a recruiter to expand your job search. Using a professional recruiter can also make sense Read Full Article

Engineering skills are in great demand and the industry is only anticipated to grow throughout the decade. However, recruiters and managers at engineering firms can still be somewhat picky when they are looking for candidates to fill open positions. Read Full Article

As an employer, one of the more complex challenges you will face is unearthing reliable engineering staffing. Of course, staffing is crucial for your business to perform as you expect. However, it can be downright strenuous to find just Read Full Article

Every year, safety accidents cost companies billions of dollars in lost productivity, injury expenses, operational repairs and more. It’s been suggested that the best approach to deal with these costs is to foster a strong safety culture from the Read Full Article

Human beings have been adjusting their environment to better suit their needs and wants even prior to recorded history. There have forever been people who designed and built tools or other devices to resolve problems or improve lives. In Read Full Article

It’s been understood that there are three stages of construction – design, bid and build. The fourth assumed stage? Litigate! According to Arcadis’ 2021 Global Construction Disputes Report, the average cost of disputes in 2020 for North America was Read Full Article

There is a persistent battle in the construction industry for contractors to stay competitive and at the same time, boost their profit margins. From a contractor’s viewpoint, it can maintain that labor productivity is the number one most significant Read Full Article

Most of our nation’s key infrastructure projects were created between the 1930s and the 1950s to both fight the adverse consequences of the Great Depression and kickstart the U.S. economy post-World War II, helping put Americans back into the Read Full Article

Is It Important to Establish Good Communications with Your Clients? You Bet It Is!  Busy contractors spend the better part of their day out in the field where they work more with tools than with people. During a hectic day, client communications can easily fall by the Read Full Article

Goin’ Mobile: The Benefits of Mobile Construction Technology  “I can pull up by the curb. I can make it on the road. Goin’ mobile. I can stop in any street and talk with people that we meet. Goin’ mobile – The Who  Read Full Article

Busting the Most Common Recruitment Agency Myths  Recruitment is an incredibly important part of any company. After all, bringing top talent on board is what keeps your construction business growing and moving forward.  Being in the staffing industry, however, we’ve overheard more than our fair share of misconceptions Read Full Article

Put on Those Hard Hats, Ladies!  One of the major tasks in nearly every industry today is realizing gender equality. After all, it’s been proven that gender diversity offers huge advantages in the workplace.  True, a number of industries have made noteworthy progress in gender diversity; however, many continue to straggle behind. And the construction industry fits into this latter group.   The typical stereotype for a construction site worker is an ogling, Read Full Article

Yes, Architects and Designers Are More Important Than Ever  Let’s not sugarcoat things. The past eight to nine months have been chaotic, to say the least. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the globe, the state of the world was identified as uncertainty, confusion Read Full Article

Don’t Just Fill the Position . . . Hire Employees for the Future  The outbreak of COVID-19 has forced organizations into perhaps the most significant social experiment in the future of work in action, with work from home and social distancing policies radically Read Full Article

In today’s competitive (and pandemic-shaped) job market, finding and hiring the ideal job candidate can prove to be quite difficult. That’s why many companies are turning to professional recruitment and search firms to help them recruit and hire the Read Full Article

There Are Statistics and Then There Are Statistics “Statistics are like a drunk with a lamp post: used more for support than illumination.” ͂    Winston Churchill The same thing could probably be said about construction statistics. We’re aware of Read Full Article

Building a new home is a milestone in one’s life. So, it’s important to have a dependable construction firm direct the homebuilder from one step to the next, and even make the process enjoyable, too. One of the first Read Full Article

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”                                                                                     . . . George Bernard Shaw Client communication. It’s a decisive factor in any construction job, and perhaps the easiest thing to get wrong. Read Full Article

Labor productivity is a vital component of any building project. Without it, projects are delayed, and budgets quickly become overwhelmed. That’s is why it’s important that you make certain all your contract workers are singing from the same hymn Read Full Article

Do you know of anyone who has considered a career in the construction industry, but were disheartened by what some people see as a dead-end career? If they’ve heard there’s no future in construction, then he/she would have heard Read Full Article

You often hear of building with concrete and steel, but what about concrete or steel? Whoa, there’s a choice? Sure is. But how do they stack up against one another as building materials for the 21st century? If you’re Read Full Article

As we go into 2019, it’s time to take a good look at construction industry trends and predictions and see which ones are shaping up. Staying on top of new and up-and-coming trends in the construction industry not only Read Full Article

As we go into 2019, it’s time to take a good look at construction industry trends and predictions and see which ones are shaping up. Staying on top of new and up-and-coming trends in the construction industry not only Read Full Article

From using your smartphone to aerial drones mapping and surveying the job site, the construction industry is exploding into new territories with the implementation of technology today. We have transformed one of the largest industries in the U.S., turning Read Full Article

So, you’re having problems with gaining efficiencies in your construction projects? Few things can turn a routine construction project into a drawn-out ordeal quicker than a loss of efficiency. Just take a peek at one of the biggest construction Read Full Article

Let’s face it. Is there anything more decisive to your business than accurate construction cost estimating? Guess right and you could make a tidy profit on a given project. Guess wrong and you may lose money on that same Read Full Article

I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by. –Douglas Adams, English author Let’s begin our discussion by saying that the construction schedule is like the Bible for many project managers. Why so? It Read Full Article

Why You Should Use a Construction Manager Why select a construction manager for your next project? Put simply, the key issue is “which ‘side of the table’ do you want your builder to sit on?” Let’s first keep in Read Full Article

The Bottom Line in Avoiding Significant Construction Delays   Project delays and are a significant issue in the construction business. Not only do they impact your present-day work, but they can affect impending projects as everything gets pushed back. Read Full Article

Construction Safety: Protecting Against the Fatal Four in the Construction Industry Let’s face it. Working in construction can be dangerous. As of March 2017, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 6,882,000 people were employed in the construction industry. This Read Full Article

Mitigating the Costs of Changes During Construction To paraphrase the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, change is the only constant in construction projects. Let’s face it, change isn’t always bad, but on a construction project, it usually isn’t good either. Changes Read Full Article

Design-Build and Why You Should Use It Q: What did the pyramids, the Parthenon and the Pentagon all have in common? A: They were all built by the same method: Design-Build. So, what exactly is Design-Build? First, we’ll need Read Full Article