Tag: Lessons
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My End-Of-Year Personal Post: The EHD Highlights (And Some Lessons) Of 2025
2025 was a big year for EHD, full of more “ups” than “lessons” (which is all you can really ask for), and I feel enormously grateful to still be here. We are closing out the 15th year of the blog, which is wild (that’s most of my adult life!). Some of you have been hanging…
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Bid rigging: CMA offers lessons for construction from cartel prosecutions
The Construction and Markets Authority (CMA) has posted some lessons from its successful £60m prosecution of 10 construction firms for cartel activity two years ago. In 2023, 10 construction firms were found to have broken competition law by making illegal arrangements to rig bids for demolition and asbestos removal contracts. The case also resulted in…
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BAM, Laing O’Rourke and Wates share social value lessons
Experts from BAM, Laing O’Rourke and Wates will discuss the Common Assessment Standard (CAS), outline how compliance expectations are evolving across the sector, and debate the growing importance of measurable social value in procurement in a Construction Management webinar later this month. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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Project control lessons from Balfour Beatty and Arcadis
The Digital Construction Summit takes place from late October until early November. The series of webinars – supported by Elecosoft, Glider, RIB Software, Trimble, CIOB and Construction Management – brings together leading voices from across the construction sector to explore the future of digital transformation. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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Project control lessons from Balfour Beatty and Arcadis
The Digital Construction Summit takes place from late October until early November. The series of webinars – supported by Elecosoft, Glider, RIB Software, Trimble, CIOB and Construction Management – brings together leading voices from across the construction sector to explore the future of digital transformation. View the original article and our Inspiration here
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Back to School – 2025 Construction Refresher on OSHA Updates, PPE and Lessons Learned
Fall isn’t just for kids heading back to class — it is also a perfect time for crews to sharpen their safety skills. Think of it as a seasonal refresher course for the jobsite: the latest OSHA updates, a PPE tune-up and lessons learned from real-world incidents. Syllabus Day: What’s New from OSHA OSHA has…
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The Timber Tech Playbook: Lessons from Greg Howes
In this episode of the AEC Business podcast, I sit down with Greg Howes, co-founder of CutMyTimber and the AEC Hackathon, and the founder of Oregon Mass Timber Network. Greg’s journey spans from Silicon Valley tech to high-precision timber fabrication. We talk about: Why the U.S. could become the world’s biggest mass timber market The…
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Skype’s Rise and Fall Offers Lessons for Today’s Businesses
Skype, the platform once synonymous with video calls, just shocked the world by shutting down after 22 years. How is it possible that a once-dominant business — with more than 300 million users at its peak — could fail? “If it can happen to Skype, it can happen to any business that stops innovating or…
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Two Paths to Industrialized Construction: Lessons from China
Chinese construction has been in the headlines for record-breaking speed: a 10-story residential building erected in 28 hours and 45 minutes, or a 57-story skyscraper built in 19 working days. These projects rely on meticulous planning, extreme prefabrication, and clockwork execution. Besides those unique showcase projects, I wanted to learn how Chinese AEC firms are…
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VE Day at 80: Wartime Manufacturing Lessons for Today
This year marks 80 years since Victory in Europe (VE Day), commemorating the end of World War II in Europe and the Allies’ triumph over the Axis Powers. Britain’s manufacturing capabilities played a huge role in winning the Battle of Britain – and subsequently WWII. The nation’s adaptability, resource management and workforce flexibility on the…