There are worse economic trends than slowing productivity. How about declining productivity for one? That’s the nasty trick pulled by the US construction sector. It’s been running in reverse for a ...

Those of us in the construction industry, whether we want to admit it or not, are faced with an unpleasant truth: we haven’t increased our productivity in more than 50 years. According to a research ...

Construction is a labor-intensive business. Despite tremendous advances in design, coordination, and management technologies, the physical installation of work in the field remains reliant on people.

Vertical AI helps construction teams work faster, safer and smarter. Specialized AI tools are boosting efficiency, safety and compliance on jobsites worldwide.

The promise of AI being a practical answer to increasing productivity and your bottom line is always subject to having good data to feed the AI model. Thankfully, AI-driven technology can enhance the ...

High inflation and labor shortages are a major challenge for many industries, and no more so than in the construction and engineering (C&E) sector, where productivity has historically always been low.

When Shreesha Ramdas first started building tech companies in the early 2000s, he didn’t expect his path would lead him to one of the oldest industries in America: construction. A seasoned ...

We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity in 20th-century America. Homes built per construction worker remained stagnant between 1900 and 1940, boomed after World War II, and then ...

Dan Horner argues that construction needs to embrace technology to unlock innovation and new pillars of creation, such as the technology of the James Webb Space Telescope that captured this image of ...

Ask a project executive where productivity slips away and you’ll hear familiar culprits: labor shortages, change orders, and weather. But if you trace most schedule slips back to their first domino, ...

The “CFMEU tax” for all Queensland infrastructure projects worth more than $100m has officially been axed by the state government.

This week, the Productivity Commission released its much-awaited report into productivity growth in Australia’s housing construction sector. It wasn’t a glowing appraisal. The commission found ...