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“A worker in gray work clothes and dark gloves uses a wall chaser with a dust extraction hose to cut a vertical channel into a white aerated concrete block wall.

Why Material Changes Fail on Day One

by Qasem Al Hariri | Nov 3, 2026
Workforce | Business | Leadership | Productivity | Project Delivery | Risk | Risk Management | Training | Uncategorized

Lessons from a Gulf contractor on workforce risk when crews switch to a new building material.
A blurred view of a bright hospital patient room with a bed, wall-mounted monitor, potted plants and wood-look flooring, with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking a city skyline and blue sky.”

Biophilic Building for Healing: Bringing Nature, Materials and High-Performance Systems Into Healthcare Facilities

by Angela Iraldi | Nov 2, 2026
Top Story | Business | CSR | Culture | Institutional | Leadership | Markets | Productivity | Project Delivery | Safety | Topic | Training | Wellness | Workforce

Access to natural light and views is no longer treated as an amenity. It's a core piece of patient-centered design.
A long data center corridor lined with server racks, with streaks of orange light on the left, glowing blue binary code and rising line graphs on the right and across the floor, all converging on a bright white light at the far end.

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.
Matt Snyder, director of preconstruction at Helix Electric.

Helix Electric’s Matt Snyder

by Construction Executive | Oct 23, 2026
Job Interview | Careers | Culture | Departments | Executive Profiles | Leadership | Nuts + Bolts | Organization Culture | People | Top Story | Topic | Workforce

Matt Snyder is taking lessons he learned while playing center for the Indiana University football team to directing preconstruction at Helix Electric.
Illustration of a man in a white shirt walking across a bridge of white panels spanning a jagged chasm in a blue landscape, with a glowing lightbulb above his head.

Mind the Model: Closing the Gap Between BIM Coordination and Field Installation

by Kevin Bromenshenk | Oct 22, 2026
Business | BIM | Business Risk | Departments | Leadership | Productivity | Project Delivery | Project Management | Technology | Top Story | Topic | Workforce

Closing the gap between coordinated BIM and field installation takes early buy-in, continuous verification and a smarter approach to digital closeout.

Building Talent in a Tight Market

by Kit Dickinson | Oct 16, 2026
Departments | Careers | Leadership | Recruitment | Retention | Top Story | Topic | Training | Workforce

Filling the talent gap is a balancing act between finding the right people and finding the right amount of people. When the right people are already on your payroll, sometimes it pays to teach that talent how to do more.
A low-angle view of construction workers in yellow hard hats smiling down as they stack their hands together in a team huddle inside an industrial building.

Why Culture at Your Construction Company Might Need an Audit

by Alla Volodina | Oct 16, 2026
Culture | Business | Business Risk | Human Resources | Leadership | Organization Culture | Retention | Risk | Risk Management | Top Story | Topic | Workforce

What culture audits might uncover are hidden liabilities that are greater than the financial liabilities on the balance sheet.
A hand touching a glowing digital interface with gear icons, representing automation.

Where Should Automation Stop on a Jobsite and Who Decides?

by Alex Troyer | Oct 15, 2026
Technology | Artificial Intelligence | Business | Business Risk | Leadership | Organization Culture | Productivity | Project Management | Top Story | Topic | Workforce

The future of construction will be defined by how thoughtfully leaders balance automation with human judgment, writes an industrial construction operations executive.
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