RAKEN CONSTRUCTION BLOG

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...

It's the same story all over: general and subcontractors are swamped with work, but they just can't get around to all of the projects that they have on the backburner. Or they a...

Communication between the field and the office has never been an easy feat. When assigning tasks to workers in the field, it can be difficult to remember who was meant to do whi...

If you're a site superintendent working for a general contractor, and your company just signed up for Raken's Performance plan, congratulations! Your workflow is about to get a ...

New buildings are becoming increasingly high-tech, causing big construction projects to increase in complexity. A superintendent's job has evolved into an extremely multifaceted...

We often associate our smartphones with trouble. Whether they distract us from our work, or we accidentally send a text to the wrong person, it's true that we can occasionally l...

Now that we've covered some of the construction issues that frequently come up during a project, let's discuss some tips to avoid construction litigation* in the first place. As...