Construction Executive

As the sun sets on a bustling construction site, crews push through burning eyes and slowed reflexes while cranes still swing loads overhead and heavy equipment grinds past, within inches of exhausted bodies and minds. One misstep or moment of delayed reaction can mean the difference between a routine shift and a life‑altering incident. But the workplace hazard of worker fati...

Real job safety isn’t about helmets or harnesses. It starts with a climate where people can honestly signal when they don’t feel safe or when a condition isn’t safe. Yet when they’re overloaded or something feels o...

Net-zero schools are increasingly being mandated by policy. Early conversations that once centered on square footage and schedules now include geothermal capacity, solar modeling, envelope performance and long-term monitoring ...

Water leaking into a building is a leading cause of damage and loss in the construction industry. On one jobsite, heavy rains flooded a sub-basement, damaging a new electrical transformer—all because a roof dr...

WASHINGTON, May 18—The national March not-seasonally-adjusted construction unemployment rate was 6.7%, a 1.3% increase from March 2025, according to a