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2019 August

Seeing Projects as Products

A new report from McKinsey & Company says that modular construction (or prefabrication) can deliver projects 50 percent faster, has the potential to cut costs by 20 percent, and will change the business models...

2019 July

Aim High

New research in marketing says that if you want to sell a new product—say, an intriguing new flavor of ice cream—you can get more customers to try it by displaying the product stacked in...

2019 June

Robotic Manufacturing Is Coming

Every day across the globe, about 200,000 people leave rural areas and move into cities, says World Economic Forum.      To support this growing urban population, Autodesk says contractors worldwide have to build...

2019 May

Where Are the Exoskeletons?

In February, Morrison Utility Services in the United Kingdom began piloting a health and safety program that supplies exoskeletons to its contract workers.      “The benefits of this wearable technology,” said the utility’s...

2019 April

What on Earth?

On Feb. 25, 2019, TheGuardian.com posted the article, “Concrete: the most destructive material on Earth.” The report was part of “Guardian concrete week,” a news bundle “ the aesthetic and social achievements of concrete,...

2019 March

How to Be a Disruptor

Would you like to be good at sniffing out opportunities and carving out niches before others? Then be a market disruptor.      “Established companies have to start thinking like disruptors,” says Paul Earle,...

2019 February

Listen to the Music

Don’t you feel it growin’ day by day People gettin’ ready for the news Some are happy Some are sad Whoa But gonna let the music play — The Doobie Brothers No doubt...

January 2019

Zero Recordables in 2019

How would you like to achieve the grand total of zero workplace injury and illness cases in 2018?      That’s a challenging goal to reach. Do you think you can do it?   ...

2018 December

Eligible for Employment

The construction industry faces labor shortages in most parts of the country. As a result, many wall and ceiling companies are turning away work, not seeing enough qualified job applicants available for hire in...