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Six Shortcuts Are Speeding Up Data Centers. All Six Land on Electrical

The Wall Street Journal catalogued the shortcuts driving the data center boom. Here is what they mean if you are the one wiring the building.

Frank Kalman

The Same Seven Things Keep Slipping Through Design Review

Frank Kalman

Joey Brown Runs Commercial Construction Projects. Then He Plays Everyone Who Ruins Them.

Victoria Lucia

Project Management & Efficiency, Technology & Innovation

PDX Reimagined: How ZGF Architects Built a Digital Backbone for Oregon’s Most Ambitious Project

On the state’s biggest public works project, the hardest part wasn't the engineering but keeping 6,000 sheets — and an entire team — in sync.

Project Management & Efficiency, Technology & Innovation

Your Takeoff Is Wrong. Here’s Why That Matters More Than You Think.

Most construction profits don’t die in the field; they’re killed weeks earlier, at a desk, when someone writes down the wrong number.

Building, Design & Architecture, Construction & The Economy

Mumbai Builds Like Its Life Depends on It. Because It Does.

The city isn’t choosing between growth and stewardship. It’s being forced to do both at once — on sinking ground, in a shrinking window, for people who can’t afford to live in what they’re building.

Bluebeam Tips and Tricks

Quantity Takeoffs Are the Best Kept Secret in Bluebeam Revu

Deepak Maini, a 20-year qualified mechanical engineer, shares tips and tricks for using QTO software (From 2019)

Project Management & Efficiency, Technology & Innovation

Why Most Takeoffs Fall Apart When Drawings Change — and How Better Structure Prevents It

Revisions don't break estimates. Weak takeoff workflows do.

Construction & The Economy, Technology & Innovation

The AI Boom Keeps Hitting a Physical Wall

As Amazon’s copper deal shows, the biggest constraint on artificial intelligence isn’t computing power, but the slow, friction-filled systems required to build and power it.