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Construction Financial Professionals Remain Surprisingly Upbeat
Sep 17, 2021
Third-quarter 2021 results emerging from CFMA’s Confindex reveal surprisingly upbeat assessments ...
Powering the Future of Collaborative, Real-Time Cost Management
Aug 30, 2021
Sponsored Content: With construction projects and teams becoming more disconnected, the need for ...
Construction Financial Executives Become Even More Upbeat
Jun 21, 2021
For more than a year, significant parts of the economy have been in hibernation. Millions of job...
Shortage of Available Workers Slows Recovery
Jun 15, 2021
Much will depend on labor force growth in 2021.
State of the Construction Industry: Will Nonresidential Construction Rebound in 2021?
Apr 22, 2021
There are reasons for both optimism and pessimism regarding nonresidential construction’s prospec...
CONFINDEX Rebounds Like Never Before
Mar 24, 2021
Partial Recovery Plus Additional Stimulus Buoy Spirits. There are certainly many reasons for pess...
New Year, New President, Same Infrastructure Challenges
Mar 24, 2021
Making the case that American infrastructure is in crisis is a reasonably straightforward proposi...
Toward an Energized & Solvent Highway Trust Fund
Mar 24, 2021
Many years have come and gone since the federal government passed a transportation bill addressin...
Construction Cost Management: The Quiet Revolution
Mar 21, 2021
Sponsored Content: In construction the “bottom line” is comprised of a thousand moving targets. T...
Fresh Perspectives: Blockchain Technology Explained
Jan 22, 2021
Blockchain technology offers a new way to process and store transactions, eliminating a lot of ma...
New Corporate Performance Management Tools Can Add Value
Jan 22, 2021
When an economic sector is booming, companies line up at the door to supply goods and services. H...
4 Key Trends in 2021 to Maximize Profits
Jan 15, 2021
The past year has been a challenging one for the construction industry.
Near-Term Outlook is Not Upbeat, but Hope Springs Eternal
Dec 01, 2020
During the pandemic’s earlier phases, the U.S. construction industry represented a bulwark of rel...
2020 Year-End Planning
Nov 02, 2020
2020 has been anything but predictable.
Industry Outlook: Attitudes & Expectations
Nov 02, 2020
While some contractors were taking recession-proof measures such as containing expenditures and k...
Finding Opportunity: Protecting Your Employees & Preserving Your Culture
Nov 02, 2020
At the beginning of 2020, many contractors were focused on recruiting and retaining employees – u...
The State of State & Local Government Finances
Nov 02, 2020
Fiscally, the biggest difference between the federal government and state/local governments is th...
COVID-19: Another Tectonic Shift in the Business Operation Models
Sep 01, 2020
Disruptions to business operations are seldom as abrupt as COVID-19 and other comparable tectonic...
Toward the “Next” Trillion-Dollar Infrastructure Spending Plan
Aug 01, 2020
In 2015, federal politicians set aside their political differences long enough to pass the Fixing...
Everything Changed. Everything
Jun 01, 2020
Confindex Dips to Multi-Year Lows
Living With & After COVID-19
May 01, 2020
Typically, recessions sneak up on us, like a cat in the night.