Articles by Jeff Rubenstone

Building a pair of automated container berths for 100,000-ton-class container vessels is already a significant project, but the two new berths at Qinzhou Port are also the first in China to be built with a modern, U-shaped layout designed to better maximize intermodal logistical efficiency.

Deploying new technology often demands its own skill set, and Texas A&M’s College of Architecture is exploring what it would take for those in its construction management program to be proficient in evaluating and implementing new technologies.

Original equipment manufacturers cite replenished rental fleets for slowdown.

The Giant Magellan Telescope will be one of the world's most advanced ground-based telescopes once completed, but for now the challenge is to turn the finalized design for its rotating enclosure into a buildable reality.

Users have overcome initial reservations about the robot, with ACR's extensive early engagement with union ironworkers and specialty contractors helping to win over skeptics.

Urban Foundation/Engineering, ENR New York’s Specialty Contractor of the Year, is known across New York City for taking on complex projects.

Growing labor shortages continue to plague the construction industry, while trade schools and job training programs report their current enrollment won’t make up for a wave of retiring skilled workers.

The construction unemployment rate fell to 3.3%, another signal that the labor supply pressures of recent years are still ongoing.

With an extended period of construction activity and no imminent signs of recession, prices for used construction equipment at resale and auction have found their level, with fewer of the fluctuations that marked recent years.

The telescope, part of the next generation of telescopes now under construction or development, will be one of the largest optical telescopes ever built when completed.