Green Building Innovations

Green building is here to stay. And despite the recession – and maybe even because of it – the construction industry is focused on improving sustainable design and building and continued innovation when it comes to being green.
Full Story >>

Building Smarter: BIM and Beyond

Today’s contractors have become “smart builders” who are using highly sophisticated computer modeling tools to tackle complex projects at biotech and computer labs and other high-tech manufacturing facilities. Full Story >>

Heavy BIM Special Report

A common misperception about BIM is that it’s just for designing and constructing buildings. “People shouldn’t look at the word ‘building’ in BIM as an actual building, but as the verb ‘to build,’” says Jay Mezher, design visualization manager for Parsons Brinckerhoff in Seattle. “It’s not limited to vertical structures. You can model and analyze as many issues in horizontal projects as you can in buildings.” Full Story >>

Building Foundations for Future Organizational Development

There is no doubt that the construction industry has been turned upside down during this economic debacle. Bodies have flown out the door in droves. The employee cuts were sometimes made in a coherent manner and at other times the cuts were emotional, reactive decisions to rapidly declining revenues and profits. Full Story >>

Sacramento Market Report

Just as its name suggests, Sacramento International Airport’s “Big Build” project is a case study in all things large. Full Story >>

Construction Firms Need to Prepare for New Mechanic’s Lien Procedures

Since 1879, the California Constitution has guaranteed contractors, subcontractors, suppliers and others who have not been paid for work and materials supplied to a private works project the right to sell the property where the work was performed in order to obtain payment. Full Story >>

Breathing New Life Into Old Facilities

Many municipal wastewater systems built in the 1970s and 1980s are nearing the end of their useful lives, forcing municipalities and utilities around the country to look at ways of breathing new life into their treatment plants.Full Story >>