Fire Protection You Can Trust Starts With the Right Testing

Fire protection systems are only as good as their testing reveals. Make sure your buildings and jobsites are equipped appropriately. Steel’s strength and flexibility enable bold architectural design, fast project delivery and enduring structures. Despite its many advantages, steel has one critical vulnerability: It fails in fire of certain temperatures. According to the American Institute […]

Pre-Shutdown Nonresidential Construction Spending Down in August

Considering nonresidential construction spending was down before the 43-day government shutdown, that does not bode well for numbers when data returns. WASHINGTON, Nov. 17—National nonresidential construction spending decreased 0.2% in August, according to an Associated Builders and Contractors analysis of data published today by the U.S. Census Bureau. On a seasonally adjusted annualized basis, nonresidential […]

Cemex Ventures – Fostering the construction revolution

Real-time data? This might seem like an accepted standard in the industry, but for decades, the construction sector has relied on an inherently slow decision-making system based on weekly reports, manual inspections, and data that is already history. While functional, this model has been the primary reason for decades why productivity margins were so low […]