Effective Oct. 1, OSHA put a new weighting system in place for workplace safety and health inspections for fiscal year 2020. The new OSHA Weighting System (OWS) replaces the former time-centric program, which was implemented in 2015.
When you need more space, you might think about buying a new home or adding to your current house. Adding to a current home can be cheaper and easier. In addition, it can keep you in the same area, and…
Residential construction project management software streamlines tasks and helps you keep track of projects and personnel. Whether you need accounting or scheduling management, project management solutions offer many options that make a contractor’s job easier. What features you need will…
A Common Data Environment (CDE) is critical to driving collaboration and measurably improving construction productivity, quality, and satisfaction.
A new study from Dodge Data & Analytics and Sevan Multi-Site Solutions found that owners and contractors don’t see eye to eye about key factors of how a successful multi-site construction campaign plays out, though a positive relationship stemmed from solid…
As betting on a dispute is becoming more and more popular every day, many people have a logical question: “For what reason do so many people want to succeed in sports betting?” Well, there are several reasons that made Sports…
Construction projects have many moving parts and keeping track of them is a full-time job for project managers. Unfortunately, even professional project managers don’t have the time to individually track all of these parts across several projects at once. If…
As a contractor, it’s no secret that financing likely isn’t your favorite topic of discussion. The process can be messy and leave you with a headache and stress, all which probably make you not want to offer financing options at…
The month-to-month percentage change versus May was -18.3%. The large drop, however, was mainly due to May having so many mega-sized project initiations. May’s Top 10 project starts list totaled $20.7 billion, double the figure of $10.3 billion for June’s…
Is it “prefab”? “Modular”? “Offsite manufacture”? Call it what you will, industrial construction is a concept that is capturing the imagination of AEC firms, developers, entrepreneurs, and investors. Amazon has pumped $6.7 million into Plant Prefab, which has a 62,000-sf…
