Construction Informer

The American Institute of Architects (AIA), California Council, recently learned and published some valuable lessons from people on the front lines of building. They brought together 32 owners, architects, general contractors and subcontractors who had been involved in delivering projects using alternative methods, including Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). The group then dissected their experiences with [...]

There are at least 640 engineers and architects in the U.S. who have serious reservations about the conclusions of the 911 Commission as they relate to the reasons the towers fell. This is according to Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth.
Engineering, and architecture related to the structural aspects of buildings, have science as their basis. [...]

The recent release of the Architectural Billings Index (ABI) number, put out by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), is causing a lot of construction firms to carefully analyze their exposure to long-term economic risk. In December the ABI was at 36.4 after a showing at 34.7 in November.
If you consider those two numbers along [...]

Within construction economic reporting there are a lot of numbers thrown around. Recently the American Institute of Architects (AIA) predicted a drop of 11 percent in the amount of non-residential construction in 2009. The following year, the drop in that sector is anticipated to be five percent.
Office and hotel building in 2009, says AIA, will [...]

Last year, on September 24 to be exact, I took a close look in this post at the Architectural Billing Index (ABI) that is put out by the American Institute of Architects (AIA). At the time July 2007 billings had a score of almost 60 but was quickly followed in August by the biggest drop [...]

I have probably read just enough about Consensus DOCS to be dangerous, yet I still have the nerve to offer some opinions on it.
In September 2007 the Associated General Contractors in unison with 20 construction-related organizations released what has become a challenge to the status quo of American Institute of Architects (AIA) contract documents. [...]

Don’t Rely on Inspectors For Contract Compliance: In South Dakota a road contractor was required to remove two miles of roadwork and re-grade the base that didn’t meet the contract specifications even though the DOT inspectors had checked grades at randomly selected grade stakes and verbally approved each layer. This one went all the [...]

Immigration Reform at State Level-  The Arizona Contractors Association along with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Arizona Employers for Immigration Reform lost a lawsuit they had filed to seek relief from an Arizona law that gives that state the power to revoke business licenses from companies that hire illegal aliens. I guess I’m [...]

A news release by Integrity Recruits shows overall compensation to be lower in 2008 for people who work in construction-related industries. Hiring is expected to move away from residential construction and toward government and commercial construction. The latest available statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reports the mean annual wage in construction and extraction [...]

Much is being written these days about the construction industry’s problems with productivity, cost over-runs and inefficiencies. For some time many of us have suspected the systems that are ingrained in the business are no longer working. Now the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its California Council are advancing Integrated Project Delivery (IPD). In [...]