Construction and engineering

The construction industry could boost productivity by 50% to 60%.

Why shouldn't engineers study success? Because failures tell you so much more, civil engineering professor Henry Petroski contends.

Research shows that class projects and internships reinforce a masculine culture.

It needs better management.

The CFO of a global construction company disagrees with his CEO (and good friend) about the advantages of self-managed teams--particularly because lack...

Flashy automated solutions struggle to find a foothold in the trades, but there are technological advances taking place.

Architecture and the Corporation: The Creative Intersection, Thomas Walton (New York: Macmillan, 1988) 218 pages, $29.95. City: Rediscovering the Center, William H. Whyte (New York: Doubleday, 1988) 386 pages $24.95. Winston Churchill understood why architecture is our most social art. “We shape our buildings,” he observed, “and afterwards our buildings shape us.” But not all […]

The CFO of a global construction company disagrees with his CEO (and good friend) about the advantages of self-managed teams--particularly because lack...

Airstream's ability to innovate and grow depends on balancing longtime owners' expectations with new buyers' desires. In this conversation, president...

The leaders of such global powerhouses as GE, Wal-Mart, and Toyota seem to have grasped two crucial truths: First, far from becoming submerged by the...

Four strategies to find your voice.

It's the ultimate bottom-of-the-pyramid challenge: How do you create a well-designed, safe, and affordable house for the world's poorest people? When...

As the Internet changes the way people work and shop, companies will need to create spaces that seamlessly combine the physical and the virtual. That’s going to require a whole new kind of architecture.

A substantial body of experience and a set of tested standards have made “green” a realistic choice for most building projects. Here are ten practical design and construction rules that will help you conserve the Earth’s resources and your budget.

Challenged by world-class competitors, manufacturing companies in the United States have greatly improved their product development efforts as well as...

The authors believe that defining the difference between star performers and average workers is the way to increase the productivity of knowledge professionals....

Innovative technologies become commercial products in two ways: reduction to practice of scientific knowledge and incremental improvement governed by...

Lessons from Owens Corning.

It will ensure complex projects have transparency and good record keeping.

A manager hears enough about another team’s project to know that it is seriously flawed—and probably destined to fail. Should he butt in or butt out?