Construction

Construction teams are comfortable with cubic feet and cubic metres — concrete, excavation and fill are all priced that way. Timber is the odd one out. North American lumber yards …

Walk onto a modern construction site and you may notice something that would have seemed unusual a few decades ago. A reliable surveying company can help ensure that this information …

The construction industry has undergone significant advances with the integration of gas-powered technologies, which enhance efficiency and precision. A pivotal player in these developments is the application of oxy acetylene …

Labor is the biggest cost variable on most construction jobs. It’s also the hardest one to track accurately when your crew is spread across multiple sites, work phases overlap, and …

A 700-square-foot detached dwelling sounds like a straightforward build. In practice it is one of the more technically awkward project types in residential construction, because nearly every efficiency of scale …

Construction projects rarely fail because of one dramatic mistake. More often, schedules slip because small problems accumulate: an outdated drawing reaches the site, a delivery arrives at the wrong time, …

Water is patient. It finds every crack, every gap, every weakly bonded joint in a foundation and eventually works its way in. For decades, builders and property owners treated wet …

I’ve spent twenty years on Australian worksites, from dusty residential sub-divisions in Western Sydney to massive commercial builds in Melbourne. If there’s one thing that consistently does my head in, …

In the fast-paced world of construction, efficiency is often the deciding factor between a project that runs smoothly and one that faces costly delays. Among the wide array of equipment …