Over the last century there have been plenty of construction blunders that have left people asking “how could that happen?”Thanks to some overzealous developers in Spain, we are left asking that question once again.

The massive InTempo Skyscraper in Benidorm, Spain was meant to represent prosperity to contrast the county’s economic woes. However the 47-story building […]

The building that collapsed at 22nd and Market Street in Philadelphia is nothing less than a tragedy. But now that the dust has quite literally settled, it’s time to pick up the pieces and figure out what went wrong. However, it’s just not an easy thing to do. By the way, I kind […]

Improving Healthcare Buildings with BIM

It’s easy for an outsider to an industry to get on their ethical high-horse and point their finger at others who are walking along the ethical line and perhaps even crossing it.  It’s easy for regulators, government, and academia to point their finger at industry and tell them to clean up their act.  However, it […]

With the first quarter of 2013 already behind us the construction industry finally appears to be on a path of recovery and growth now that the recession appears to have ended. The industry has continued to add jobs each month throughout the first quarter of the year and construction spending during the […]

Ahhh, the employee review. Everybody’s favorite time of the year. You get to sit down with your boss and your employees and have a little chat. It’s that time when your boss digs up information from the employee time tracker app to ascertain how much time you’ve dedicated to the company. It usually ends […]

Let’s take a little trip back in time.  And the beauty of this is that we can do it without the use of  black holes, a DeLorean, flux-capacitor, or even 1.21 Gigawatts of electricity.

*In the 1985 film Back To The Future, “Doc” Brown proclaimed that he could travel back in time if […]