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We will be at Bluebeam Unbound 2025!

We are excited to be attending this event as a guest of Bluebeam and to learn all about the new features and integrations that are coming.

Sep 81 min read

Earn a Professional Certificate On-line with LinkedIn Learning

We are very excited to announce that LinkedIn has decided to choose Construction Management as one of the subjects of their very first offerings of Professional Certificates on LinkedIn Learning!

Sep 51 min read

Getting the Field to Buy in to Technology

On LinkedIn Live, the December livestream featured a conversation between myself and fellow LinkedIn Learning instructor Christopher Randall discussing the challenges and solutions to getting buy-in from the field when trying to introduce new technology and digital workflows. In case you didn’t get a chance to watch, we discussed some great solutions that are simple to implement:

Sep 52 min read

Is Lean the Answer to Our Problems?

I hear quite a few people in the construction industry throwing around the term "Lean" or "Lean Construction" or "Lean Productivitiy",...

Mar 18, 20191 min read

On The Job Site - A New Series!

On LinkedIn Learning, we recently rolled out a new Vlog style of short courses. These short, stand alone, video episodes are meant to...

Mar 18, 20191 min read

Why I Wrote a Book on Confined Spaces in Construction

Just walking to lunch... No guard rails or barricades (other than the two being repurposed as a stand for the cable reel). No one around....

Feb 6, 20171 min read

What We Really Get Wrong On OSHA Recordkeeping

In many cases, the thing that’s really wrong with our “OSHA Record Keeping” is that we view it as “OSHA Record Keeping”; that is to say it g

Feb 3, 20173 min read

Managing Confined Spaces in Construction

While there are many similarities between the rules that have existed for confined spaces in General Industry and the new rules published by

Jan 25, 20171 min read

The Next Evolution in Construction Management is Here: Are You Ready?

The last few years have seen an incredible leap into the utilization of digital drawings, and this now looks like it will represent a transf

Jan 3, 20174 min read

Construction Safety Management in a Digital Age

As technology continues to permeate and influence the construction industry, one of the trends that we see now on a recurring basis is...

Oct 8, 20164 min read

Here Come the Drones!

For the last several years, drones, officially known as unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA),...

Sep 7, 20169 min read

Webinar: How Tech is Controlling Your Quality and Safety Program

Date: Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 Time: 10-11am PST/1-2pm EST Why is technology leading the conversations around quality and safety...

Aug 31, 20161 min read

Does OSHA Now Prohibit Post Incident Drug Testing?

Federal OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the United States Department of Labor), recently published a revision...

Jun 21, 20169 min read

Is Your Company In Compliance with Haz Comm Regulations?

One of the OSHA standards that has been significantly updated in the last few years is commonly known as the Haz Comm standard, or the...

Apr 15, 20166 min read

Q & A on Residential Post-tensioned Concrete Slabs

In general, the design of P/T slabs on grade is based on tensioning the strands prior to the slab being loaded. How much does it affect the

Dec 7, 20103 min read

Do Unbonded Post-tensioned Tendons Fly Across the Job Site When They are Cut?

Single strand unbonded post-tension tendons do not fly out slabs on ground like missiles when they are cut. There is too much friction on th

Sep 26, 20102 min read