A Request for Information (RFI) is a standard business practice that construction professionals use throughout a project to get clarifications on specific parts of the construction documents. The process is an official way to make sure that the contractors involved have all the information necessary and that every bidder is pricing the exact same way. The RFI process is an area rife with possibilities of delay and monetary claims if not handled properly.

Listed below are ConstructConnect’s Hot Commercial Construction Projects for the week of August 3 – 7, 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.

A Faint Echo of Normalcy in Hospitality Sales?

In the U.S., retail and food services sales are combined in a single monthly report from the Census Bureau. Also, the data is relatively current. Latest results are for June 2020.

Canada’s Jobs ‘Claw-Back’ Ratio Now Exceeds 50%

In July, the total number of jobs in Canada rose by 419,000, according to Statistics Canada, bringing the cumulative figure for the latest three months to +1.661 million. June’s number was +952,000 and May’s, +290,000.

In June, the famous autonomous robot dog from Boston Dynamics, named Spot, was released to the public for sale after several months of trials with strategic partners in the construction industry, among others. Just recently, FARO Technologies Inc, a 3D scanning and imaging solution, has launched an integration for Spot.

Here’s a quick rundown of this week’s top news and happenings in the construction industry. Each week, we’ll take a look at some of the interesting local, regional, and national stories about construction to keep you better informed of the goings-on in the industry.

In July, according to the Employment Situation report published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the total number of jobs in the U.S. climbed by 1.8 million (after gains of 4.8 million in June and 2.7 million in May) and the seasonally adjusted (SA) unemployment rate eased to 10.2% (after readings of 11.1% in June, 13.0% in May, and 14.4% in April).

I was recently told a story of how a human resources team for a large property organisation in Australia approached their colleagues within facilities management. They enquired about the quality of air filtration, asking, “How many MERVs do we have here?”

Two of the world’s leading real-estate firms have broken new ground in the push toward healthy buildings.

Confusion reins on building sites throughout Melbourne as the state enters Stage 4 COVID restrictions.