Both European and American construction productivity has fallen since the start of the 2000s. Surprisingly, though, contractors across the EU have managed to outperform their US counterparts. We have ...

High inflation and labor shortages are a major challenge for many industries, and no more so than in the construction and engineering (C&E) sector, where productivity has historically always been low.

Preventative maintenance programs help construction fleets reduce downtime, improve safety and control costs through ...

There are worse economic trends than slowing productivity. How about declining productivity for one? That’s the nasty trick pulled by the US construction sector. It’s been running in reverse for a ...

Megan Tanel, President and CEO, AEM, offers in-depth observations on the construction industry, today's emerging trends and ...

We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity in 20th-century America. Homes built per construction worker remained stagnant between 1900 and 1940, boomed after World War II, and then ...

Many of today's construction sites are powered by technologies that are helping contractors deliver projects on time and on budget—from surveying technology that pinpoints exact locations, connecting ...

98% of megaprojects face cost overruns or delays, costing the U.S. construction industry $280 billion annually. On the latest Disruption Interruption episode, Olfa Hamdi, CEO of Concord Project ...

The process of designing and constructing a building is markedly different from that of manufacturing a product. But adapting lean production-management concepts from manufacturing for use in ...

Comfort Systems USA, Inc. FIX is heavily capitalizing on the market shift toward the AI boom and the use of advanced tools while making headway on becoming a technology-enabled construction leader.