The many benefits of BIM include reduced costs and risk; improved collaboration, clash detection, sequencing, scheduling, safety, quality and post-construction management; and increase in ...

Disputes can be time consuming, costly and harmful to a contractor's reputation. Construction disputes are due to a perceived or real violation of a construction contract and the obligations set forth ...

Gordian reports that structural steel prices in the U.S. currently average $2,477.25 per ton (October 2025), down 6.63 % from Q3 and 4.7 % year-over-year. Earlier in 2025 the trend showed a slight ...

As sustainable construction continues to focus on the full building life cycle, innovation in materials and technologies will result in groundbreaking changes and even more benefits. Sustainable ...

While the numbers of suspensions and debarments have declined from the all-time high in 2011, there is still significant activity. Here's how contractors working on federal projects can avoid ...

Risk-management personnel who are in the business of reviewing and negotiating construction contracts have some simple tools at their disposal to make sure their edits are addressing all of the killer ...

Women make up only about 10% of construction industry workers, even though they are 47% of the overall U.S. workforce. Here’s what women had to say about opportunities for advancement, being heard by ...

Contractors should be aware of four triggering events that can lead to termination and four points to keep in mind when negotiating construction contracts. Lately, in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Hybrid cost-plus contracting with lump-sum general conditions can have administrative advantages for contractors and owners. Effectiveness depends on project scale and whether parties accurately ...

TRIR—total recordable incident rate—has long served as the standard metric for tracking workplace injuries. However, events with the potential to result in a serious injury and fatality—or ...

This is the 10th article in the Precision Construction series, which explores the application of the Internet of Things to digitally transform the construction industry, ultimately with the objective ...

The toolbelt generation just may be made up of women, especially if women like Kate Glantz and Angie Cacace continue to build they way they are—and they’re building something great. The Bureau of ...