The ENR Southwest Best Projects competition has been recognizing achievements in construction for nearly two decades. Some developments, such as new and improved technologies, have changed the ...

Challenging your group to a competing team cook-off is one way to build appetites and teamwork. Be it in your workplace, place of worship or social group, your chosen project should exercise problem ...

I am involved in a construction project whose contract provides for performance-based penalties and rewards. What can I do to help get all the companies to work together? It’s essential that people ...

Group work is a time-tested strategy in many classrooms, but educators are starting to rethink how to evaluate these projects not just on the content students learn, but the skills they hone to work ...

One of the benefits small businesses have over large corporations is the feeling of a tight-knit, family oriented group of employees. But that camaraderie doesn't happen overnight. By promoting ...

The housing affordability issue in the U.S. is at a crisis stage. The National Low Income Housing Coalition estimates a shortage of 7.3 million affordable rental homes, with an average of only 34 ...

A new name — Midion — signals an expanded focus on teamwork, collaboration and communication in shepherding complex construction projects to completion on the part of the St. Paul-based consulting ...

"Which tool will help me better manage my growing business?" A reader named Rafael wrote me last month to ask this question. He had been reading about some of the best project management tools, work ...

Planning projects requires the support of tools, even in smaller companies. This ensures that the project participants know their tasks, schedules can be adhered to, and it’s clear which tasks there ...

For April Fool’s Day, Reddit came up with an art project with a twist. You could only add one pixel at a time and you had to wait several minutes between pixels. With millions of people participating, ...