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• From Rosie the Riveter to the New Plant Floor

  More than eight decades ago, an image and a name captured the American mind: Rosie the Riveter. As the Rosie the Riveter song filled radio waves, the image filled cities, and conversations filled homes, Rosie quickly came to represent something far bigger than a single person. She became the symbol of an entire generation of [...]

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• Here Come the Women in Construction

  Welcome to Women in Construction Week. As we always say here at Constructech, the numbers tell a very interesting story, and it seems the data is trying to tell us something, if we are willing to listen to what it has to say. While 1.13 million women worked in the construction industry in 2006, that [...]

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• A Call for Collaboration in Construction

  If you have been following along here for many, many years, then you know there are a few topics that are near and dear to my heart including the labor shortage, sustainability, and the responsible and ethical use of technology like AI (artificial intelligence) to spur business ingenuity into a new era of work, just [...]

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• Fact of the Week – 3/02/2026

  #Factoftheweek Are tech budgets up or down? Gartner suggests technology budgets are set to rise for 75% of CFOs. Nearly half are planning increases of 10% or more. Perhaps one of the more interesting points in the recent study is that the numbers point to an interesting trend to watch: AI (artificial intelligence) adoption is [...]

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• Success Stories: Algorithms Advance

  Where are tiny, nearly invisible particles called neutrinos coming from? Answering this question is easier said than done, but a new algorithm aims to answer this question. A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa student-led team has developed a new algorithm to help scientists determine direction in complex 2D data. The team found a formula that [...]

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