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In the engineering community, one small miscalculation or overlooked detail could prove to be disastrous.

The premise of a digital twin has become confused in an engineering and construction world with several levels of analysis and approval. How best does a fully digital representation of what will be a physical building or infrastructure asset illuminate its construction process? Is it really as easy as seeing how an exhaust port that goes right to a vessel's main reactor might be a problem?

Code requirement issues are deeply embedded in the construction industry and a perpetual source of struggle. 

Data from tech tools such as Procore, Smartvid.io and others are helping firms understand what's going on in state economies and work through the new restrictions. Some are even thriving.

The case for diversity in hiring and buying goods and services is simple. The need for industry change is not a matter of social responsibility, it's a matter of arithmetic.

In construction, we can’t solve a global pandemic, but we can protect our contracting companies by keeping overhead flexible in case business declines.

MEP Subcontractors are the unsung heroes of prefabrication and they can help designers and contractors embrace a leaner, better construction process if they'll listen to their prefab sherpas.

Contractors and DOTs tout camera effectiveness in stopping accidents, but motorist and taxpayer advocates say they are a corrupt enterprise designed to defraud drivers. It appears that both sides make a point. /p>

The U.S. regularly spends $500 billion each year on federal contracts, much of it going to small businesses, and it’s easy to see with such large sums of money why fraud is common.