Researchers at National Taiwan University have developed an AI system that recognizes construction activities at both the ...

Those of us in the construction industry, whether we want to admit it or not, are faced with an unpleasant truth: we haven’t increased our productivity in more than 50 years. According to a research ...

Despite the many industrial advancements that have happened over the last half century, construction productivity has actually fallen. A recent report by the New York Times correctly pointed out that ...

For too long, the construction industry has remained a laggard in adopting and embracing new tools, processes, and best practices for enhancing productivity. The $800-billion sector only allocates ...

Three of the four construction sectors measured showed new gains. Photo Courtesy of iStock. February 1, 2018 After decades of reports about stagnant or slipping construction productivity, a new U.S.

Assemblymember Buffy Wicks convened the first hearing of the California Assembly's new Select Committee on Housing ...

There are worse economic trends than slowing productivity. How about declining productivity for one? That’s the nasty trick pulled by the US construction sector. It’s been running in reverse for a ...

High inflation and labor shortages are a major challenge for many industries, and no more so than in the construction and engineering (C&E) sector, where productivity has historically always been low.

The process of designing and constructing a building is markedly different from that of manufacturing a product. But adapting lean production-management concepts from manufacturing for use in ...

More than 11 million people, or about 8 percent of the total U.S. workforce, were employed in construction in 2007 and the buildings they constructed were worth $1.16 trillion, according to a 2008 U.S ...