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Best and Worst of 2010: Commercial Construction Trends

HardHatChat

I’ll say it again, 2010 was a rebuilding year for the commercial construction industry. It wasn’t as bad as 2009, but not as good as 2008. So I’ve created a commercial construction checklist for what we considered the highs and lows of 2010 commercial construction trends. High – Institutional Construction.

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3 Solutions to Help Solve the Commercial Construction Labor Shortage

HardHatChat

Activity is setting up nicely for commercial construction in 2015, but just as the industry seems to be back on its footing, the dreary recession of years past is giving us one last gasp of annoyance and pain. While activity is good, the recession still hangs over us in the form of a commercial construction labor shortage.

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Lean methodology is ignored by the construction sector

Job Order Contracting

These factors include… poor formal and professional education in the domain, low investment in research and development, deep rooted project culture, perceived long life-cycle of associated return on investment, resistance from construction projects’ participants and stakeholders, and lack of real property owner leadership and competency.

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AIA sees modest declines in 2008, steeper drop in 2009

PSMJ Resources

The AIA last week put out a press release spotlighting its semi-annual Consensus Construction Forecast, a survey of the "nation's leading construction forecasters" that includes the outlook for the second half along with a prognosis for 2009. downturn in 2009. The Forecast calls for a 1.2%

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Credible Construction Estimate Core Elements

Job Order Contracting

Education, key performance indicators, common terms and definitions, collaborative construction delivery methods, and current, objective, local market granular cost data as well as supporting technology can to be leveraged to enable significant cost savings via signifincant improvements in cost visibility, cost management, and productivity.

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The New Frameworks Philosophy

Natural Building

The company, which is booking into 2023, works with residential and commercial clients on projects including renovation, new construction and improving building performance in existing structures. The carbon footprint is further reduced if it’s a locally sourced product that travels a relatively short distance for use in building.

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Housing’s Great Rethink: Workforce Development Takes Center Stage

Pro Builder

Two Harvard Business School professors, Joseph Fuller and William Kerr, point out in a recent paper that the quitting trend had actually preceded the pandemic, rising steadily since at least 2009. What we are living through is not just short-term turbulence provoked by the pandemic but rather a continuation of a long-term trend,” they wrote.