December 2024
Don’t Romanticize Failure
Failure costs money. A missed deadline or a design flaw can lead to significant project setbacks. A safety oversight could bring danger.
Failure costs money. A missed deadline or a design flaw can lead to significant project setbacks. A safety oversight could bring danger.
A photo in The Washington Post shows an Amazon data center towering over several large residential homes in Loudoun County, Virginia, some just 50 feet away from the facility.
The 2020 paper, “Technology Impact on the Means and Methods of Wall and Ceiling Construction,” from the Foundation of the Wall and Ceiling Industry, noted that artificial intelligence (AI) applications “stand to bring about construction...
Who can deny the allure of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)? Its potential to enhance processes, analyze data and automate project documentation is compelling.
The need for critical trades skills in the U.S. has never been greater. While we’re all aware of that, some of the figures I’ll present here have real implications on your project planning.
Four years ago, I wrote about suicide in construction (AWCI’s Construction Dimensions, April 2020, page 17). I focused then on a lack of empathy as a potential suicide contributor.
Recently on LinkedIn, Chris Walker, CEO of Passetto and chairman of Refine Labs, told the story of someone—a marketing professional, no doubt—who said that creating volumes of marketing material is not only hard to do...
Expectations run high in construction, and so clashes with the GC and other trades are inevitable. But fear not, for wit and wisdom are your secret weapons. From playful sports analogies to T-shirt-worthy quips, mastering...
“The good old days of jumping on bandwagons and desperately trying to outrun trends on social media are numbered,” says “Social Trends 2024” from Hootsuite, a social media management platform.
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