Tyne and Wear’s transport body is looking for contractors to complete £60m of infrastructure improvements to deliver a dual-tracked metro network. The scheme, known as the Metro Flow Programme, will involve unifying two existing Network Rail and Metro infrastructures to create a single twin-track between…

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Time, talent, treasure. These are the core tenets of ConstructConnect’s outreach efforts. We believe that each person is suited differently to give differently. That’s why we recognize a variety of options, empowering the organization, both on a corporate level and as individual team members, to give “the three” away.  

Across the country, construction jobs are being filled by less experienced workers than ever before. Our industry’s aging workforce is retiring, which leaves many new workers in a “trial by fire” situations, fumbling to troubleshoot with little training. A new artificial intelligence powered training solution may help solve some of training problems.

Listed below are ConstructConnect’s Hot Commercial Construction Projects for the week of August 31 – September 4, 2020. Our Hot Projects showcases three currently bidding or sub-bidding projects from all 50 states and the District of Columbia pulled from our extensive database of construction leads.

Buildings are static. They serve the purpose they have been designed for. But when cities grow and the needs of the community change, this becomes a problem. Modular construction with engineered wood products like Kerto LVL are the solution, because they enable adaptable, sustainable, and cost-competitive designs. It is time to provide solutions to the […]

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The first episode of AEC TechTV is hosted by Aarni Heiskanen and Paul Wilkinson. The Program 01:07 Immersive collaborative VR in AEC / Aarni Heiskanen 06:07 Good data for the public good / Paul Wilkinson 12:30 BIM and FM / Karl Fitzpatrick, Auckland Airport 18:40 The AEC Hackathon Online / Damon Hernandez, the AEC Hackathon […]

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We talked with Professor Martin Fischer of Stanford University’s Civil and Environmental Engineering Department in the run-up to WDBE. Our discussion covered what drew him to the discipline and the practical challenges of applying BIM in the modern built environment. An essential part of contemporary design, Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a valuable collaborative practice […]

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Disappointing M/M Employment Results

According to August’s Employment Situation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the total number of jobs in the U.S. economy in the latest month rose by +1.4 million and the seasonally adjusted (SA) unemployment rate decreased to 8.4% from 10.2% in July.

The NSW Building Commissioner, David Chandler OAM, is at the ready with ‘boots on the ground’, to ‘rid the industry of dangerous builders, developers and certifiers’ and improve consumer confidence in the buying of residential apartments in NSW with the commencement on 1 September 2020 of the Residential Apartment Buildings (Compliance and Enforcement Powers) Act 2020[1] (RAB Act)..

House prices in Melbourne and Sydney have been impacted as the effect of COVID-19 on immigration and domestic demand continues to weigh on major capital city real-estate markets.