CCR Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

These businesses will take a strategic engagement approach that will include relationship building, proper sales processes, and effective enablement tools. Multiple stakeholders: Typically, several decision-makers—project managers, architects, and finance officers—can approve a deal.

Project Management Consulting

CCR Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2025

Commercial real estate investors, corporate tenants, and other stakeholders expect high quality and fresh perspectives. For instance, many tenants want healthier, more engaging environments. Imagine a developer who decides to create a small backyard vineyard behind a mixed-use structure. They can foster community engagement.

Risk Management

Building Radar

DECEMBER 2, 2024

In an industry where projects are complex and involve multiple stakeholders, mastering communication techniques can significantly enhance project outcomes and business growth. Firstly, it ensures that all stakeholders, including clients, contractors, and suppliers, are on the same page regarding project expectations and deliverables.

Communication

Building Radar

DECEMBER 10, 2024

These tools not only enhance decision-making but also improve communication among stakeholders, ensuring that everyone from project managers to executives can easily grasp the key metrics and trends influencing their projects. GIS tools enable the mapping of site locations , resource distribution , and logistical routes.

Building Performance Measurement

Commercial Construction Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Early Engagement for Improved Decision-Making Engaging GCs early provides Directors with critical insights that enhance the project’s overall design and feasibility. Here are several strategies for achieving better project outcomes through early collaboration: 1.

Collaboration

Construction Specifier

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Babaian Photos and illustrations courtesy Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH) In its most general form, exterior insulation and finish systems (EIFS) consist of expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation board coated with a reinforced polymer-modified cementitious base coat and a polymer-based finish coat. By Alex Ardelean, Elizabeth V.

Prefabrication

UK Construction Blog

JULY 23, 2025

By sharing honest company reviews , stakeholders replace guesswork with data rooted in real experiences. In effect, credible online feedback becomes a low-cost quality control system that benefits every trade, from excavators breaking ground to painters adding final touches. Everyone benefits from clearer choices.

Stakeholder Engagement

UK Construction Blog

APRIL 16, 2025

Tools like Building Information Modeling (BIM) and project management software offer real-time collaboration across stakeholders, reducing the margin for error and streamlining workflow. Climate conditions, geological variables, and regional regulations shape the feasibility and durability of a structure.

Building Information Modeling (BIM)

UK Construction Blog

JULY 15, 2025

These applications enable real-time collaboration between team members regardless of location, ensuring all stakeholders remain aligned throughout project execution. This disconnect leads to costly rework, missed deadlines, and frustrated stakeholders who lack visibility into project progress.

Building Code Compliance

CCR Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2025

Industry studies that analyze water conservation effects show that tank manufacturing facilities using rainwater harvesting systems can lessen their dependence on conventional water sources based on Texas projects.

Sustainability

UK Construction Blog

JUNE 24, 2025

Architects are no longer just visualising structures; they are modelling them with real-time data on materials, costs, and sustainability metrics. These systems benefit enormously from early-stage architectural input that accommodates precision manufacturing.

Architecture

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 7, 2025

The four primary cost estimation methods used to develop cost estimates are: Analogy (Top Down) Estimates are based on historical data of a similar item/system. Parametric (Statistical) Relies on statistical analysis to establish a relationship between a technical characteristic and the cost of the system.

Estimating

Roads Online

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

The MSE walls form part of the upgraded West Gate Freeway and the new road and tunnel system, which connects the freeway with the Port of Melbourne, CityLink and the CBD. The insight was utilised to adjust the pattern over the whole project and other elements to great satisfaction to all stakeholders.

Wall Systems

Construction Specifier

APRIL 16, 2025

Therefore, existing structures have been targeted for renovations to improve energy efficiency and reduce carbon emissions. Likewise, the construction and design industries seek to ease this process for stakeholders by introducing sustainable building technologies to accomplish these retrofits more efficiently.

Sustainability

UK Construction Blog

MARCH 14, 2025

Key Takeaways Air quality monitoring is the continuous measurement of pollutants that provides crucial data for detecting harmful contaminants, with systems tracking parameters including humidity, temperature, CO2, VOCs and formaldehyde across diverse environments. Even more concerning are PM2.5

Environmental Impact Assessment

UK Construction Blog

JULY 1, 2025

Digital marketing enables construction companies to influence all stakeholders throughout extended decision-making processes, rather than relying on single points of contact. Professional video content often outperforms expensive traditional advertising in terms of engagement and conversion rates.

Building Performance Measurement

Business Facilities

JUNE 11, 2025

The heart of the project lies in demystifying recycling for all stakeholders, from the community to employees and beyond, driving the design team’s prioritization of local engagement and transparency in operations. This ensures that Columbus and surrounding areas can scale up waste diversion as sustainability needs grow.

Facility Management

Business Facilities

JUNE 25, 2025

Reshoring represents a structural shift, not a short-term trend. Infrastructure systems may require significant upgrades to support increased use and loads from rapid-growth industries. Expert involvement : Engaging experienced consultants, contractors and legal advisors ensures informed decision-making and avoids costly pitfalls.

Collaboration

The Construction Index

JUNE 12, 2025

This is a basic structural element that helps search engines interpret the primary topic of a page. Best for On-Page SEO Structure Morgan Sindall emerged as a technical standout. They support keyword targeting, demonstrate expertise, and offer updates for stakeholders, clients and media.

Construction Equipment

Business Facilities

JUNE 17, 2025

T his week in France, the 55th International Paris Air Show brings together aerospace and aviation stakeholders from around the world. Previously known as “Project Bluebird”, the relocation of Otto Aviation’s aircraft assembly facility and corporate headquarters is the result of engagement between the company, local, and state officials.

Site Planning

Civil + Structural Engineer

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Recognizing this would become a significant hardship on the communities, MaineDOT selected HNTB to rapidly evaluate and design a replacement structure within four years. Designing an international bridge involves many stakeholders on both sides of the border,” said Josh Olund, HNTB project manager. LPOE made for a challenging project.

Stakeholder Engagement

Civil + Structural Engineer

MAY 13, 2025

Mississauga is experiencing significant growth in its rapid transit system, driven by increased transit and housing demands, and a commitment to sustainable urban development, said Sam Rogers, Commissioner of Transportation and Works, City of Mississauga. CIMA+ will also support contract administration throughout the project lifecycle.

Stakeholder Engagement

Construction Marketing

JANUARY 24, 2024

Coordinate and communicate with various stakeholders, ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget. Engineers (Civil, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical) Civil engineers focus on the design and maintenance of infrastructure. Structural engineers design and analyze structures for stability and safety.

HVAC System Installation

Civil + Structural Engineer

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Perhaps the tools or systems being used in each phase do not talk to one another, or the data being generated in one phase is incompatible with the structure of the data in the next phase. Claire Rutkowski is a senior vice president and the CIO Champion at Bentley Systems. And siloed data gets left behind, driving obsolescence.

Stakeholder Engagement

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 6, 2023

Unpeeling the FM Onion is the first step to engaging in efficient facilities stewardship (consistent, quality, cost effective repair, renovation, maintenance, and new builds). Facilities management involves social (structure and people) and technical (technology and tasks) system components.

Stakeholder Engagement

Civil + Structural Engineer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

and Canada to help stakeholders understand the current damage landscape and the factors contributing to underground facility damages. Reflecting excavation/construction stakeholders’ increased engagement with damage prevention, that key group was the leading source of damage reports for the first time in 2022.

Stakeholder Engagement

Job Order Contracting

JANUARY 31, 2022

. • Align the organization’s asset management system to its organizational objectives given the. Ensure that the organization’s asset management strategy and criteria for asset management decision making address external and internal stakeholder requirements and expectations. organization’s purpose, needs, and requirements.

Stakeholder Engagement

Civil + Structural Engineer

APRIL 17, 2024

While it is important to ensure that formal mechanisms governing how employees get work done (structure, processes, systems, and incentives) are in place, these internal factors should serve as growth enablers to help fuel external growth opportunities, not just satisfy the core or improve the status quo.

Government Works

Roads Online

OCTOBER 29, 2023

The project showcases a commitment to sustainable infrastructure development and prioritises Aboriginal engagement. Construction of the new Bypass includes new bridge and causeway structures that traverse the Brockman River and its tributaries (including Udumung Brook) and Lennard Brook.

Stakeholder Engagement

Civil + Structural Engineer

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It requires attention to worker rights and safety, community engagement, and social inclusivity. Proper governance structures ensure organizational accountability, transparency, and integrity, fostering trust among stakeholders and mitigating risks associated with legal non-compliance and ethical lapses.

Sustainability

Civil + Structural Engineer

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In recent years, we’ve seen a move from the use of static data to smart systems that use active data inputs. The creation of dynamic simulations of the way structures interact with their environments goes beyond isolated infrastructure to offer interactive models of complex systems, grounded in real-world and often real-time data.

Environmental Impact Assessment

Job Order Contracting

APRIL 13, 2023

They are critical to enabling optimal performance and achieving satisfaction for all participants and stakeholders. Traditional JOC Programs have proved challenging and costly to many participants as they tend to be structured to favor owners and are costly. Job Order Contract CORE REQUIREMENTS drive efficiency.

Contracts

Roads Online

JANUARY 4, 2024

For the first time, a new retaining wall system being used in a level crossing removal is set to innovate infrastructure projects across Australia. The integrated counterforts are jointed onsite to a structural concrete footing, which then forms a highly efficient and robust cantilever retaining wall.

Wall Systems

Stok

JANUARY 22, 2019

By investing a comparatively small amount of time and money at the project outset, project teams can engage in an Integrative Design Process (IDP) Charrette to proactively plan for success. When would a project engage in an IDP Charrette? Engaging everyone in interdisciplinary thinking opens up exciting opportunities.

Stakeholder Engagement

Civil + Structural Engineer

AUGUST 1, 2023

As these disciplines and groups are applying their own needs and goals onto the concepts, Ormsby believes these layers build on top of one another to show a “better picture of the intersection of different realities when it comes to urban systems.” Luke Carothers is the Editor of Civil + Structural Engineer Magazine.

Infrastructure Development

Civil + Structural Engineer

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The season of celebration and joyous reunion will soon be upon us, and Civil+Structural Engineer Magazine is proud to kickstart the season of celebration by announcing our 2023 Yearbook of Engineering Achievement. Terminal C’s design successfully navigated an aggressive four-year construction schedule without disrupting airport operations.

Engineering

Job Order Contracting

AUGUST 20, 2023

A credible construction cost estimate is required prior to engaging in procurement. The follow elements are common to a credible construction cost estimate. Credible Cost Estimate Core Elements #1 Objectivity – The information used and those invovled in the creation of the construction cost estimate must be objective.

Estimating