By Anne Hunt, Trimble Viewpoint With the passage of the U.S. Bipartisan Infrastructure Law back in November 2021, many contractors hoped it would usher in a resurgence of new projects as the country embraced a renewed focus on updating and modernizing critical...
By Ro Bhatia, CEO, PlanHub Contractors and subcontractors face an increasingly difficult challenge: skyrocketing inflation is bleeding their bottom lines. General inflation is raising the cost of everything, from food to fuel to office supplies, maintenance, and rent....
By Ben Breiner, ValuePenguin Each year, buildings across the United States suffer more than $100 billion in damage from earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding, and wind, according to the National Institute of Building Sciences. The pace of major events causing $1 billion...
Construction equipment manufacturers are embracing electric power. Almost every major construction equipment manufacturer has electric vehicles (EVs) in their current product catalog. Some of this is driven by corporate decisions to decrease the negative impact when...
By Chris Doyle, President & CEO of Billd The sharp rise in labor and material costs has rocked the North American construction industry. While it’s been a heavy topic of discussion, there hasn’t been enough hard data in one place to get a clear snapshot of how it...
3 Ways to Address Current Construction Industry Challenges with Operating System 2.0 We have identified three ways to address our current industry challenges and to create a much more efficient and profitable business model for the construction industry. Here is our...