Construction and engineering

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

Lessons from an engineering and construction company.

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

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

The most popular offshore sites for service functions are overheating. Now is the time for companies to explore a world of opportunity beyond those hot spots and to base investment decisions not just on costs but also on talent, markets, strategic aims, and appetite for risk.

New research throws a wrench into the Wall Street "brain drain" debate.

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.

Frank Gehry is, at 82, America’s most celebrated living architect. His designs, including the Guggenheim Bilbao and Disney Hall in Los Angeles, are all technically challenging and unmistakably his. Gehry’s creative process famously borrows from artists; less well known is his fierce commitment to budgeting and the architect’s role as project manager. Interviewed by Katherine […]

Firms need to understand the people and places they affect.

Off-site manufacturing consistently fails to live up to its promise. Can firms figure out how to scale it?

It needs better management.

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 […]

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

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

Four strategies to find your voice.

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

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

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.

Anecdotal evidence is at odds with the data.

The psychographic profiling that passes for market segmentation these days is a mostly wasteful diversion from its original and true purpose—discovering customers whose behavior can be changed or whose needs are not being met.