RAKEN CONSTRUCTION BLOG

You may have the most productive contracting business west of the Mississippi, but if you don't know how to measure productivity, you'll never find out. The issue is, measuring ...

Times are changing in the world of subcontracting. Although there is a labor shortage and the demand for specialty subs is high, there is still plenty of competition when it com...

From the very beginning, Raken has always been centered around our end users. When we come up with our new features, we really try to place ourselves in your workboots to best t...

Since the beginning of time – or at least since the Neolithic era, when humans first began construction – there have been some factors that have consistently caused negative imp...

The phrase “lean construction” has been tossed around a lot lately when referring to construction productivity, but what exactly is lean construction? Essentially, lean practice...

Our latest Raken Spotlight features Project Executive Rylan Page of Vector Construction, based in Ontario, Canada. Rylan has been with Vector for over 16 years, starting out as ...

One of the trickiest parts about running a construction business is the bid. Customers want it accurate down to the dime, but most construction professionals know that isn't an ...

This week, September 16-20, is National Construction Appreciation Week. I Build America, the United State's leading organization for promoting the value of the construction indu...

Recently, we’ve been thinking a lot about jobsite productivity. When we read McKinsey Global Institute (MGI)’s analysis of productivity in the construction industry, we were a l...

From August 27th to 28th we were pleased to take part in the Bluebeam Extreme XCON Conference in Washington DC. The conference, hosted by Bluebeam, is designed to “broaden the u...

Family, barbecues, and the beach. That's what comes to mind for most Americans when they think of labor day. But that's only part of the story. In the United States, we celebrat...

There is an age gap in the construction industry, and we’ve got a pretty good idea of where it came from. Between 2006 and 2011 the construction industry lost around 2.3 million...