Connecticut Magnet High School Teachers Students Hands-On Lessons in Sustainable Design
Feb 1, 2009, By Stefanie Kure, Senior Associate Editor
School is cool is a phrase you probably don't hear many teenagers espousing these days. However, students who attend classes at the Academy of Information...
Successful Project Management Implementation In Electrical Contracting Firms
Feb 1, 2009, By David Brown, D. Brown Management
As any experienced electrical contractor will tell you, implementing a company-wide project management (PM) system in a construction company has much...
The Secret to Short-Interval Scheduling
Feb 1, 2009, By Dr. Perry Daneshgari and Heather Moore, MCA, Inc.
When the project manager asked the foreman what he'd accomplished that day, the foreman answered with a slight hesitation. Well, I installed the pipe...
New Year Could Bring More Cuts in Construction Employment
Jan 1, 2009,
According to reports in the national news, President Obama warns that if Congress does not take dramatic action on his economic stimulus package sooner...
Winds of Change
Jan 1, 2009, By Amy Florence Fischbach, Contributing Writer
Americans' demand for clean, reliable energy has blown the door wide open for electrical contracting firms specializing in wind farm work recently. According...
Anatomy of a Wind Energy Project
Jan 1, 2009, By Amy Fischbach, freelance writer
A coal-fired or nuclear plant can take a decade to build, but the construction of a wind farm can be completed in six months to a year. Here is a step-by-step...
Transfer Switches Simplified
Jan 1, 2009, By David Herres, Master Electrician
As backup power sources become more common in residential construction (Photo 1), many homeowners have learned about the needs and benefits of transfer...
New Home Sales Continue Downward Spiral
Jan 1, 2009,
Marking the slowest market conditions reported since January 1991, sales of newly built single-family homes declined 2.9% in November to a seasonally...
Rock Bottom?
Dec 1, 2008, By Beck Ireland, Staff Writer
As the housing market goes, so eventually goes non-residential construction, say industry economists. With the value of U.S. construction expected to...
Economic Recovery Plans Include Infrastructure Improvements
Dec 1, 2008,
At a meeting of the National Governors Association (NGA) in Philadelphia, President-Elect Barack Obama asked the nation's governors to help craft a plan...
The Sky is Falling
Dec 1, 2008, By Michael Eby, Editor-in-Chief
Most everyone has read the children's story Chicken Little. Although the story is meant to teach courage, it can also be interpreted to mean don't believe...
All in the Family
Dec 1, 2008,
Newtown Square, Pa.-based Balfour Beatty Communities recently announced that financing has been secured for the Fort Jackson military family housing project...
