Amid a boom in residential construction, community associations (associations) must be cognizant of the pitfalls that arise from defective construction. The rapid rate of construction—coupled with a ...

Risk management within construction has always been a moving target. Today's projects demand proactive strategies due to ...

If you could foresee construction problems, wouldn’t you prevent them from happening? In the 2002 film “Minority Report,” police use the foreknowledge of psychics called “precogs” to predict and ...

In my two decades as a certified fire investigator, I have seen first hand how fire can cause devastation to livelihoods and site assets, costing millions of dollars in damage and causing significant ...

We often get questions from concrete contractors that relate to common and uncommon concerns. Here we discuss three such questions. FIGURE 1. For a design slab thickness of 5 inches, requiring 3-inch ...