Monthly Archives: September 2024

The snowball effect

View the Full Post Here Widespread financial distress in construction is one of the biggest issues surety providers are seeing right now. The upward trend in loss severity for contractors is reflected in the surety industry’s increasing loss ratio over the past year.    This upward trend in loss severity ties to the challenging economic conditions […]

On site: An inside look at the $430M renovation of Baltimore’s M&T Bank Stadium

View the Full Post Here Listen to the article 7 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. As the Baltimore Ravens took a 7-3 lead over the Atlanta Falcons at halftime in its preseason home opener on Aug. 17, fans began flocking toward the latest addition to M&T Bank […]

Job openings drop again, but commercial builders still seek workers

View the Full Post Here Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Construction job openings dropped 17.1%, or by 51,000, in July, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data released Wednesday. The report measures the number of seasonally adjusted open positions for […]

How to maintain a steady backlog

View the Full Post Here Matt Verderamo is a consultant at Well Built Construction Consulting, a Baltimore-based firm that delivers strategic consulting, facilitation services and peer roundtables for construction executives. Opinions are the author’s own. If you want to grow your construction firm, getting your backlog right couldn’t be much more important. A strong backlog […]

The need for speed can lead to problems on projects, engineers say

View the Full Post Here Listen to the article 5 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. What keeps structural engineers up at night? Most of all, it’s the pressure to accelerate construction projects and the country’s lack of infrastructure maintenance. That information comes from the National Council of […]

Nvidia sustains triple-digit revenue growth amid AI building boom

View the Full Post Here Listen to the article 4 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Nvidia sustained five consecutive quarters of triple-digit revenue growth amid a massive AI infrastructure building boom, according to the company’s Q2 2025 earnings report. The chipmaker had record quarterly revenue […]

Don’t use AI to boil the ocean: McCarthy tech lead

View the Full Post Here Dive Brief: Figure out the best use cases, but don’t try to shoehorn artificial intelligence where it doesn’t belong, a McCarthy tech expert and other panelists told listeners last week during a BuiltWorlds webinar. The panel, “Emerging Disruptors in Construction: The What, How, Why and Opportunities,” focused on the technologies […]