Blog: Trends & Insights

The COVID-19 pandemic has drastically shifted priorities for many organizations. Find out how our VFA software and facilities expertise can help with capital planning during COVID.

Here are five key talking points on Federal cost overruns given by Federal construction experts from the private, non-profit and government sectors.

Our data experts have been tracking and monitoring the costs of lumber even more diligently since last summer when things were really being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this edition of What the Data Says, we’re taking a look at the extraordinary rise in lumber cost.

Principle Engineer Bob Mewis highlights the seven primary infectious disease/COVID precautions that impact labor cost and the additional raw materials needed on job sites. Read the blog for insights on how construction estimates can be built to account for cost changes due to COVID-19, the impacts social distancing could have on project timelines and how new technologies can combat productivity loss.

Inconsistent data in construction is a key problem facing the industry, preventing an acceleration of technology innovations. Lets explore the causes of this problem, including disjointed data sources, non-communicative systems and workflow processes.