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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.

“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.

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.

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.

A white virtual reality headset resting on a reflective surface, projecting a beam of blue light that contains glowing wireframe shapes, including a large polyhedral mesh, a cube and a sphere.

Before the Build: Virtual Reality Helps Design and Test Contech Products

by Casey Ketterhagan, Amanda Kachar | Oct 22, 2026
Upgrade | BIM | Business | Departments | Equipment | Nuts + Bolts | Productivity | Project Delivery | Technology | Tools | Top Story | Topic | Training | Wearables | Workforce

Virtual reality is giving Milwaukee Tool’s product teams an earlier look at design, usability and performance—helping turn digital concepts into jobsite-ready tools.

A construction professional in a white hard hat, safety glasses and yellow high-visibility vest reviews large blueprints on an empty platform beneath the steel truss roof and glass canopy of a new train station.

Safety Gains Vary by Sector

by Construction Executive | Oct 21, 2026
Research | Business | Data Analytics | Departments | Economy | Markets | Nuts + Bolts | OSHA | Public | Risk | Risk Management | Safety | Technology | Top Story | Topic | Training | Workforce

CPWR’s June 2026 Data Bulletin compares injury trends in building construction, heavy and civil engineering, and specialty trades using federal data.

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.

Earn and Learn: 800 High School Students Receive Hands-On Skilled Trades Training

by Jordan LeGras@abc.org | Oct 15, 2026
Community | Careers | Culture | Departments | Education | Recruitment | Top Story | Topic | Training | Workforce | Young Professionals

 Harbor Freight Tools for Schools is expanding its paid summer skilled trades program, giving more than 800 Los Angeles County students hands-on experience, industry credentials and a pathway to careers in construction and the trades. 

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