In a complex project, owners trust contractors to ensure safety and mitigate risk. But at the end of the day, owners bear the responsibility. We help you take control of your projects with tools to benchmark and improve core aspects of your work. Because to be the best, you have to know where you stand.
We provide ready-to-use tools designed to help you analyze, evaluate, forecast, and outperform the competition — tools for safety management, program management, labor market analysis, risk management, and workforce development.
CURT is a community — a robust network of construction leaders, from young professionals to those with decades of experience. Our members consistently rank the enduring relationships, broadened perspectives, and wisdom they gain as CURT members as the greatest value of CURT membership.
Together, CURT members tackle national and international construction issues, build strategic partnerships, and promote best practices across the industry.
Our national conference brings together members and industry leaders from across the country to address key issues facing owners. Learn from others’ projects, discover new approaches to common problems, and connect with peers.
But you don’t have to wait for the conference to benefit from the community. We host member meetings, sprint teams, and summits throughout the year — events focused on pressing issues facing your organization.
Escalation clauses used to be rare. Now they show up in almost every contract involving a volatile material. They are negotiated line by line, tied to published indexes, and carefully capped and structured. The industry got good at this. Legal teams argue over which index applies. Estimators set trigger points. Owners and contractors negotiate exactly …
A construction project can finish on time and on budget and still leave an owner with a labor problem that lasts for decades. It shows up in the middle of summer when an HVAC unit fails, and the right technician cannot get there for two days. It shows up when specialized equipment requires a shrinking …
For decades, compliance has been treated as overhead. Something contractors had to manage, but rarely something they expected to create value. It lived in filing cabinets, spreadsheets, payroll offices, and three-ring binders that only became important when an auditor came knocking. The objective was straightforward: stay compliant, avoid penalties, and keep projects moving. But that …