Manufacturing

PROJECT | Can-One USA Manufacturing Plant, Nashua, New Hampshire GENERAL CONTRACTOR | PROCON BUDGET | Upward of $100 million SCOPE | Designing, redeveloping and renovating a long-dormant factory into 165,840 square feet of manufacturing and warehouse space plus 24,470 square f...

Nearly a month into Q2, is your 2024 all you wanted and more? Economists and industry experts shared their predictions at the end of last year, but now Construction Executive checks in with Dan Rosenberg, a construction and real-estate lawyer with Much Shelist P.C., about his exp...

Among the various lessons that COVID-19 delivered to the construction industry, one seems to have particular staying power: When life hands you lemons, build a centrally located shipping and distribution hub. Four years after lockdown pushed the world even further into online sh...

When Jason Hess first started walking the grounds of the onetime Catholic hospital that was slated to become the City of Knoxville’s Public Safety Complex, there weren’t any firefighters or police officers around. Instead, Hess—a senior project manager with Messer Construction Co...

Construction stakeholders know that the industry—accounting for 11% of global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions—needs to take steps to improve sustainability. An SAP survey showed that most organizations that set sustainability goals fall short of achieving them. But that s...

North Carolina ranks fourth in the nation for solar energy generation, according to the United States Energy Information Administration, and more than one million North Carolina homes are powered by solar energy. With upward trends over recent years of solar rebate incentives, t...

Look closely at the workings of a construction company’s supply chain and you’ll likely find in abundance potential new resource efficiencies, carbon reductions and other sustainability gains waiting to be captured. Construction companies are being pressured from virtually every...

A perfect storm of recent extreme weather events has exposed the fragility of North America’s construction supply chains amid an increasingly fluctuating, fast-changing risk landscape. Supply chains that were already reeling from resurgent demand for raw materials coming out of t...

The T3 Bayside project in Toronto, Ontario, will be the tallest timber office building in North America. Measuring at 138 feet high, T3 will actually consist of two buildings, both made using cross-laminated timber. Plans for the buildings include office, event, retail and publi...

There is an alternative for lumber in the works—and it couldn’t come too soon. Due to supply-chain delays caused by the pandemic, lumber was $1,000 per thousand board feet in December 2021, representing a 167% increase from August 2021. With this in mind, John Cotter, a doctoral...