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Where Are All the UK Construction Workers?

The UK construction industry needs more than a quarter million new workers by 2026. What does the sector need to do to tackle the skills shortage

Hamish Champ

Architects’ New Challenge: Designing Offices People Actually Want to Work in

Erin Flynn Jay

Is Mass Timber the Answer to Construction’s Sustainability Challenge?

Hamish Champ

Why Construction Is a Top Hacker Target

Frank Kalman

Here’s Why Real-Time Jobsite Monitoring Tech Could Transform Construction

Emily Beyda

Cybersecurity 101: What Construction Firms Need to Know

Frank Kalman

Using Digital Transformation to Drive Better Outcomes in the Public Sector

Go Inside the Spectacular Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London

Women in Construction Week 2022: Pushing the Case for Greater Inclusivity

This Architect Designs Stunning Treehouses. Here’s How He Does It.

Videos

People, Projects

Tips to Survive a Hot Construction Summer on a Jobsite

People

Meet Lashanna Lintamo, welder-turned-social-media-mogul

People, Projects

Does Construction Have a Noise Problem?

Innovation, Projects

STH BNK By Beulah: Building the World’s First ‘Greenscraper’

People, Tips and Tricks

An Electrician’s 4 Favourite Bluebeam Revu Features

How One Engineer Is Dismantling Stereotypes of Women in Construction

9 Priorities for Construction Technology for 2023—And Beyond

Innovation
Hamish Champ

Some construction firms are well down the path toward a technologically enhanced future, with robots, drones, cloud-based resources and acres of software. But others have work to do. So what should they be thinking about?

Meet Jannike Reinholdsson, Bluebeam’s Marketing Manager for Northern, Eastern Europe

Inside Bluebeam, People
Darren Johnson

The avid social media creator has brought a fresh and newly relevant perspective to connecting construction industry workers with Bluebeam’s evolving suite of technology

How the Empire State Building’s Construction Remains a Wonder

Projects
Scott Van Voorhis

The iconic Manhattan skyscraper took just 20 months to design and build, igniting a bevy of industry best practices as well as many that may never be replicated.

The Pandemic Sent This Firm’s Architects Home to Work. Then Bluebeam Saved the Day

Projects, Tips and Tricks
Frank Kalman

The initial pandemic panic sent FGM Architects’ employees into remote work indefinitely, hampering their ability to collaborate on project documents – then Bluebeam reimagined the way the firm operates

What Is ESG in Construction?

Innovation
Hamish Champ

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) has become the buzz acronym for construction in recent years—and with good reason. Here’s how following an ESG framework helps firms reduce risk, deliver better outcomes and enhance reputation.

Go Inside the Design of the Newly Constructed Elizabeth Line

Projects
Emily Beyda

The recently completed UK mass rail project was the result of a carefully crafted design vision that took into account almost every aspect of the passenger experience

What Are Brownfield Sites and Are They The Answer To The UK’s Housing Crisis?

Projects
Hamish Champ

The UK has a new prime minister who wants to shake up housing delivery by building more on green belt land. But this would be fiercely contested; is the answer to build more homes on brownfield sites?

How Contractors Deliver When Building E-Commerce Fulfilment Centres

Projects
Emily Beyda

The highly complex nature of e-commerce requires facilities that are constructed with the same sort of pinpoint efficiency and flexibility as the industry they serve