The Wall Street Journal
The dirt-under-the-fingernails world of construction is breaking digital ground. In an industry where practices have barely changed for decades, the building site of the future promises comprehensive online modeling, drones as surveyors and virtual-reality images of everything from building sites to commercial real estate.

CertainTeed
Just as architects and designers rely on sketches and 3-D renderings to visualize an unbuilt project’s aesthetics, a new auralization experience from CertainTeed can help specifiers design on an auditory level. The CertainTeed Listening Lounge, a virtual demonstration sound modeling tool located at the company’s new headquarters in Malvern, Pennsylvania, lets the specifier hear how ceiling design, materials and product specifications can affect the acoustics of a space.

Bonitz, Inc.
Harold Chapman, President and CEO of Bonitz, Inc. headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina will be retiring from the company effective at the end of the current year. After almost forty years in the floor covering industry, thirty-four years with Bonitz and three years in the current position, he has determined that the time is right for him to step aside.

Construction & Demolition Recycling
Several projects in 2016 showed their sustainability efforts through recycling construction and demolition materials, using recycled materials in its construction and creating water, heat and energy efficient systems. While several third party certification systems exist, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system is considered the most widely used in the United States.

Construction Dive
Health threats like Ebola, swine flu (H1N1), SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and bird flu have all taken a turn at terrifying the world's population, each pushing those likely to be exposed to establish unique safety measures. Now, the newest health scare has emerged in the mosquito-borne Zika virus.

Smithsonian
From the street, the new seven-story "T3" building going up in Minneapolis looks a lot like an old warehouse: large repeating windows and weathered steel sheathing the color of brick. But it’s a revolutionary structure, and the irony is that its cutting-edge nature rests on an old-school material: wood. When T3 opens this month, it will be the tallest modern wooden building in the United States. And to hear the architect behind the tower tell it, T3 is the future of urban construction.

Construction Magazine Network
You may be the best builder on the planet, but if you use inferior products your stellar reputation could only last as long as those products. Because the larger percentage of a post-frame and steel-frame building is metal, doesn’t it behoove you to know a lot about it?

CBS News
Wondering about the health of the U.S. economy? Wonder no more: one of the clearest indicators of how the economy is faring is the level of business activity at FedEx (FDX) and UPS (UPS).