Category: Featured
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Staying Ahead of Rising and Unpredictable Energy Costs
In the coming years, electricity prices are expected to rise materially and become increasingly volatile. As a result, businesses must proactively implement a diverse array of strategies to mitigate financial risk and exposure while protecting operational stability. Here, we explore what’s driving electricity price escalation and volatility and recommend a range of implementable strategies to…
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Turner strikes agreement with change order management tech firm
Listen to the article 2 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: With the help of its venture funding arm, New York City-based Turner Construction reached an agreement with change order management platform Clearstory to use its tech across the company’s jobsites, according to an Oct. 28…
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How Peerless Fence Group Keeps a 60-Year Family Tradition Standing Tall
For more than six decades, Peerless Fence Group has built its reputation one post, panel and promise at a time. What began in 1961 as a modest commercial chain link operation in Villa Park, Illinois has evolved into one of Chicagoland’s largest and most respected fence installation companies. Through every stage of growth, the company…
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Data center volatility, batteries and the electric grid’s new reality
Amanda Simonian leads strategic marketing and communications for TerraFlow Energy, a Texas-based developer of long-duration energy storage solutions. I spent most of September on the road, from RE+ in Las Vegas to Climate Week NYC, Houston Energy and Climate Week and Data Center World Power in San Antonio. Four different audiences, four very different rooms,…
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Projects need builder input on design: Jacobs New York strategy lead
Listen to the article 6 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. For much of her career, Alison Landry has been on the public side of civil work. Following several years working for New York City, Landry left city hall in the spring and took time off with her…
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Shake Shack Opens at OAK in Oklahoma City
The wait is over, Oklahoma City. Shake Shack is officially opening its first Oklahoma location at OAK, the city’s 20-acre mixed-use district redefining lifestyle and community in the heart of OKC. The grand opening takes place in November, just in time for the holiday season. Located in a striking all-glass jewel box fronting Heartwood Park,…
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Construction employers face training bottleneck, report shows
Capacity constraints are also affecting apprenticeships. The survey states that “the most affected area was construction, planning and the built environment, with nearly a third (32%) of colleges experiencing challenges” in delivering apprenticeship training because of staffing or space shortages. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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Moving beyond the spreadsheet struggle: How builders can stay on track
You know that spreadsheets run the show on almost every construction jobsite. Teams use them to manage schedules, RFIs, safety logs and pay apps. All the files get passed around by email or saved on someone’s computer/laptop, and updated whenever there’s time. For years, that worked well enough. But today’s projects are bigger, faster and…
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Protecting Concrete from Freeze-Thaw Cycles
Winter is coming to the Northern Hemisphere. That means reinforced concrete bridges, parking garages, and buildings could be in for a wild ride on the “roller coaster” of freeze-thaw cycling. To minimize damage from these inevitable temperature swings, Cortec recommends taking the simple maintenance step of applying a water repellent at least once every ten…
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Farmhouse Update: Testing Out The Barb Sofas In Our Living Room (Game Changing)
Y’ALL. What started as a “Let’s shoot the Barb sofas in here to give them some marketing love” turned into “oh dear!!! … is this actually the life I want to live???” (in a good way). A couple of weeks ago, I showed you the Alice sofas in here, which I literally designed for this…