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If you want to understand where construction safety is headed, then you need to pay attention to what the research…

The construction industry has always been complex, with projects involving countless moving parts—labor, materials, timelines, budgets, and stakeholders. For decades,…

For decades, jobsite safety has depended on manual inspections, incident reports, and after-the-fact analysis. Here at Constructech, we have covered…

Work zone fatalities have gone up in the United States, according to the most recent numbers from OSHA (Occupational Safety…

If you caught my podcast of The Peggy Smedley Show last week, then you know I talked about why trusted…

Last week at ConExpo‑Con/Agg 2026, industry leaders, contractors, technologists, and equipment manufacturers gathered in Las Vegas to discuss the evolution…

If you have been following along here for many, many years, then you know there are a few topics that…

Our energy infrastructure is close to failing—in fact, the ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) puts our energy grade at…

Certainly, most in the construction industry have heard about BIM (building information modeling) and its 3D, 4D, 5D, and 6D…

What type of impact could quantum computing have on the construction industry? Will it enable us to schedule and build…