Should Construction Industry Unvaccinated Workers Pay More for Insurance?

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It’s another incentive plan for construction industry unvaccinated workers. What didn’t work: Free transportation Gift cards Onsite educational sessions Onsite vaccination clinics Paid sick leave day-after vaccination Paid time off for vaccination Construction industry companies are now considering health plan surcharges for unvaccinated workers. Maybe this one will work. Construction Industry Unvaccinated Are Workplace Safety […]

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Construction Industry Supply Chain Challenges Continue

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Content and Public Relations Manager Andy Holtmann says, “Like the labor challenge, rising material costs and supply chain issues have had a crippling effect on the construction industry. Hopefully, governmental measures will help, though ultimately, many of these cost and supply issues are tied to the pandemic itself…” “Look, part of what is happening isn’t

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Construction Firms’ Concrete Contractors Go Digital

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A survey revealed 89% of construction firms and specialty trades use building information modeling (BIM). Concrete contractors have many incentives to adopt digital layouts: Improves accuracy Increases layout versatility Easier placement of nonlinear shapes Saves time Easier multistream home office coordination Simplified workflow But the biggest incentive is ROI (return on investment). Construction firms say the

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How Construction Business Managers Compete for Workers

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Competing for construction business is something we know about. Most of us have a plan for winning bids and lowballing our competitors without compromising quality or safety. Did you ever think you’d be competing for workers? Labor Shortage Crisis for Construction Business Industry We lost out on Gen X skilled tradesand we’re partly to blame.

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Construction Business Onsite Connectivity: What You Need

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By now you know that miscommunication – or complete lack of communication – is expensive in the construction business. Time truly is money in our industry, and if you’re spending too much time feeling disconnected from here-and-now on project jobsites, you’re not alone. Real-Time Construction Business Tools Real-time connectivity connects the reality of work-in-progress to

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Construction Workers and COVID-19: Are We High-Risk?

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If you work outside and are six feet away from others, are you at risk of contracting COVID-19? You wouldn’t think so. But the new-and-improved variant seems to be contagious if someone in another state sneezes. Lack of consistent data is a problem. OSHA has logged every work-related COVID-19 case and fatalities but won’t release the 2020

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The Construction Industry and Life Sciences Projects

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When your 7th grader says she is studying “life sciences,” you might be puzzled by that term. It’s what we called “biology” in school. Life sciences is the study of living organisms: Biochemistry Biology Botany Microbiology Physiology Zoology …and more. It’s a sector of the medical research and development industry that is taking off like

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