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Learn About the Latest News on US Worker Fell 40 Feet, Growing Construction Worker Wages, and Construction Aggregates Market

Construction Daily News

A shifting building landscape Since researchers last examined construction workforce trends 25 years ago, much can change. Wage dynamics have also changed significantly. Our study provides contractors with a simple wage trend forecasting method to estimate future labor costs. The landscape is different today. from 2025 to 2034.

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Government turns to AI to cut planning workloads

The Construction Index

It will power new types of planning software to slash the 250,000 estimated hours spent by planning officers each year manually checking documents. This government is working hand in hand with business to change that. It’s a bold step forward in our mission to build 1.5

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The Ultimate Guide to Air Quality Monitoring: Protecting Health & Environment

UK Construction Blog

Data management involves collecting supplementary meteorological information, implementing quality assurance procedures, and processing raw measurements into actionable insights that can be compared against UK air quality objectives and WHO guidelines.

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HS2 “shambolic mess” says transport secretary

The Construction Index

She told the House of Commons today that “billions of pounds of taxpayers money has been wasted by constant scope changes, ineffective contracts and bad management”. Other examples of mismanagement and incompetence cited by Alexander include HS2 Ltd’s management of planning Euston terminus.

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An Intelligent Homebuilding Platform Unleashes the Power of Data

The Pro Builder

That company, Higharc , launched in 2018. Purchasing teams, for instance, can use the designs to generate estimates, so they can bid out jobs more quickly and effectively. Changes are a complete chaos monkey for every builder,” he says. As a result, production builders can offer and manage options more easily and quickly.

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The FM Mismanagement Problem Defined

Job Order Contracting

Decisions made using “bad data” are estimated to have cost the industry $88.69 Construction in 2018.” 2018 Industry Report.” million in rework alone, accounting for 14 percent of all rework performed in 2020. References: Watanabe-Crockett, Lee. The Daily Data Diet: Information Creation in Numbers.”. Global Citizen.

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Innovative Technology helps deliver the Warrenton Southern interchange Project

Civil + Structural Engineer

million design-build project kicked off in 2018 and opened to traffic in 2020. This included quickly developing limits of construction and quantities estimates for Shirley during the development of the requests for proposal (RFP) concept, and analyzing a multi-stage traffic control diversion with grade changes of up to 30 feet.