Estimated state construction unemployment rates were lower than their pre-pandemic level in just over 40% of states. As of ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9—The construction industry lost 11,000 jobs on net in December, according to an Associated Builders and ...

According to the latest JOLTS survey, the U.S. construction industry had only 292,000 job openings as of November 2025.

Gordian reports that structural steel prices in the U.S. currently average $2,477.25 per ton (October 2025), down 6.63 % from Q3 and 4.7 % year-over-year. Earlier in 2025 the trend showed a slight ...

The second half of 2024 is likely to present the same problems to the construction industry—supply-chain issues, labor shortages and more—but you can approach them with different solutions. It’s no ...

Disputes can be time consuming, costly and harmful to a contractor's reputation. Construction disputes are due to a perceived or real violation of a construction contract and the obligations set forth ...

Women make up only about 10% of construction industry workers, even though they are 47% of the overall U.S. workforce. Here’s what women had to say about opportunities for advancement, being heard by ...

This is the 10th article in the Precision Construction series, which explores the application of the Internet of Things to digitally transform the construction industry, ultimately with the objective ...

Risk-management personnel who are in the business of reviewing and negotiating construction contracts have some simple tools at their disposal to make sure their edits are addressing all of the killer ...

The many benefits of BIM include reduced costs and risk; improved collaboration, clash detection, sequencing, scheduling, safety, quality and post-construction management; and increase in ...

Artificial intelligence has moved beyond theory and into the field. Across the construction industry, it is transforming how projects are planned, managed and delivered. From predictive scheduling and ...

In the world of construction contracts, negotiations are critical to shaping fair and reasonable agreements that allocate risk to the proper party. However, those negotiations give rise to ethical ...