Construction Backlog Indicator Rebounds in February, Contractor Confidence Grows

WASHINGTON, March 10—Associated Builders and Contractors reported that its Construction Backlog Indicator rose to 8.1 months in February, according to an ABC member survey conducted Feb. 20 to March 6. The reading is up 0.1 months from January but down 0.2 months from February 2025.   View ABC’s Construction Backlog Indicator and Construction Confidence Index for February. View the full Construction […]

More Construction Companies are Building a Technology-Focused C-Suite

As technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and more become mainstream within the construction industry, more and more construction companies are creating tech-focused positions beyond the IT team. Laine Hiera is the new—and the first—chief design solutions officer at Barge Design Solutions and she sat down with Construction Executive to describe what this inaugural step means […]

How We Build Software Contractors Depend On

I’ve spent years building STACK. Long enough to have shaped much of what this product is today, and long enough to have arrived at a few realizations that I think are worth sharing. There’s something about the way we build software here that I’ve come to believe is genuinely rare. It has less to do with the technology itself than you […]