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“Close-up of a worker in an orange high-visibility vest and dotted work gloves using a tablet in front of a yellow wheeled excavator.

Autonomous Construction Equipment Is Here. What Does That Mean for Worker Jobsite Safety?

by Katie McLaughlin | Oct 30, 2026
Safety | Artificial Intelligence | Business | Equipment | Heavy Equipment | OSHA | Robotics | Technology | Top Story | Topic | Training | Workforce | Workforce Management

Excavators have always needed an operator in the cab—until now.
A person types on a keyboard beside a mouse while a glowing red wireframe face floats above the keys, surrounded by digital icons for padlocks, a shield with a checkmark, a password field, an AI chip, a bell, a credit card, an envelope and lines of binary code.

Turning AI and Facial Recognition Into Practical Jobsite Value

by Padraig Reilly | Oct 29, 2026
Technology | Artificial Intelligence | Insurance | Jobsite Monitoring | OSHA | Productivity | Risk | Risk Management | Safety | Top Story | Topic | Workforce Management

Facial recognition verifies the person presenting at the jobsite against the enrolled worker.
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Complexities of Office-to-Residential Conversion Projects in a Growing Construction Market

by David J. Pfeffer | Oct 28, 2026
Top Story | Business | Commercial | Economy | Legal and Regulatory | Markets | Multifamily | Policy | Project Delivery | Residential | Risk | Risk Management | Topic

Where 1.6 million square feet of office space was converted to residential in 2023, that number soared to reach 5 million square feet by 2025.

How Upskilling Can Help Close the Construction Labor Gap

by Johnny Clemmons | Oct 27, 2026
Business | Business Development | Culture | Organization Culture | Productivity | Project Delivery | Top Story | Training | Workforce

Below are six targeted areas where skills training can harness the untapped power of the construction workforce.
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Data Center Demand Is Creating a Talent Crisis Across the Rest of Construction

by Sam Cormack | Oct 27, 2026
Top Story | Artificial Intelligence | Business | Business Risk | Economy | Human Resources | Industrial | Leadership | Markets | Recruitment | Retention | Technology | Topic | Workforce

Mission-critical construction is moving at a ridiculous pace, and the influx in labor demand is stripping all the capabilities away from the rest of the construction sector.
A hand reaches toward a glowing digital interface of hexagonal icons centered on a ‘Payroll’ button with a dollar sign and circular arrows, surrounded by icons for a calculator, document, clock, calendar, notepad, bank and cash in a hand, against a dark blue background.

Before the Next Project: Map the Gap Between Payroll and Collections

by Nathan Abadi | Oct 26, 2026
Business | Accounting | Business Development | Business Intelligence | Business Risk | Commercial | Finance | Markets | Project Delivery | Risk | Risk Management | Top Story | Topic

Which bills come first? When should the customer payments arrive? And what happens if one of them is two weeks late?
construction trends in 2026

Construction Business Trends Affecting Firm Performance

by Construction Executive | Oct 23, 2026
Business

Industry backlog, labor and cost figures describe conditions across the whole market, not the conditions inside any one contractor’s business.
Close-up of two construction workers standing side by side outdoors at sunset, one holding a yellow hard hat and the other a blue hard hat at their sides, with green work gloves tucked into a pocket.

A Shrinking Labor Force Changes the Construction Workforce Equation

by John Dorer | Oct 23, 2026
Top Story | Business | Business Risk | Careers | Education | Legal and Regulatory | Policy | Productivity | Project Delivery | Recruitment | Retention | Topic | Training | Workforce

For contractors already struggling to find enough people, a smaller national workforce raises a bigger question about how much work companies can realistically support.
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