Associated Builders and Contractors reported that its Construction Backlog Indicator rose to 8.8 months in April, according ...

The construction industry has made tremendous progress in reducing physical injuries by treating safety as a system: planned, ...

The next evolution is agentic AI, which uses data to achieve complex facility goals while addressing changing factors. By ...

Slow to hire; slow to fire. The construction workforce is neither adding jobs rapidly nor laying employees off.

Associated Builders and Contractors released its 2026 Health and Safety Performance Report, an annual guide to health and ...

Contractor disputes rarely begin with a single major failure—they emerge when unclear expectations, inconsistent documentation and unresolved operational friction compound across the lifecycle of a ...

ABC’s Top Performers are contractor members that achieved ABC STEP Gold status or higher (based on 2024 safety data) and earned ABC’s AQC credential in 2025. Top Performers are ranked No. 1 to 250 ...

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Strategic fabrication boosts efficiency, reduces waste and helps contractors overcome the skilled-labor shortage.

Hybrid cost-plus contracting with lump-sum general conditions can have administrative advantages for contractors and owners. Effectiveness depends on project scale and whether parties accurately ...

Modular construction projects involve complex commercial and legal issues that should be considered when drafting contracts. ConsensusDocs 753 addresses key issues of these hybrid transactions.

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 ...