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Transportation Infrastructure

Innovating for the Public Good

January 18, 2017

Colorado's RoadX program illustrates what can be achieved when everyone—and everything—is in gear, listening, innovating and collaborating for the public good.

Viewpoint: Overlooked Connection

John D. Porcari

January 18, 2017

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Get in your self-driving car, punch in your destination, and then check your email, surf the web or take a nap.

Energy Viewpoint

Smart Utilities Enable Smart Cities: Creating the Smart Cities of the Future

By Mike Beehler and Meghan Calabro

December 28, 2016

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Smart cities are coming, and electric utilities should become partners in ushering in this new era.

Optimizing Project Success Through 3D Design-for-Fabrication

Samir Emdanat

December 21, 2016

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How to save time, quality and cost.

Risk Management

Viewpoint: So Who Is the Designer In Construction Projects, Anyway?

The changing map of construction risk.

Kenneth Rubinstein Michael Balmer

December 14, 2016

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Ten years ago, few contractors carried professional liability insurance.

Making the Case for Careers in the Building Trades

Lee Worley

December 5, 2016

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One main reason for construction’s skilled-labor shortage is the lack of awareness and of a plan to build a pipeline of workers.

How to Measure for Pursuit of Profitable Construction Work Only

Thomas C. Schleifer PhD

November 23, 2016

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Project failures don’t just happen. Failed projects are deliberately sought out and pursued by overeager contractors.

Energy Viewpoint

Virtual Power Plants Maximize Electric-Vehicle Energy Value

By Paul Stith

November 21, 2016

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In today’s energy market, consumers are becoming producers, and technology is placing more control in the hands of the many.

Project Management

Viewpoint: Dispelling Myths About Lean Construction

John Wiegand

November 15, 2016

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When I met John Shook, one of the world’s leading lean management experts in Boston at the Lean Construction Institute Congress in 2015, a colleague asked him how far the construction industry in the U.S. has come with lean construction after 17 years.

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