Tag Archive: ConstructionManagement

At MSA Professional Services, we not only care about our employees’ safety and their overall well-being, but we care about yours as well! The National Safety Council observes April as National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Technology allows us to make phone calls, dictate texts or emails and update social media while driving—all actions proven to increase crash risk.

With motorists racking up more than three trillion miles on US highways in 2015, road construction will surely follow. Road construction costs are a burden each of us bear as taxpayers, but there are certain staging techniques that can lessen that burden.

Continuing the Meet MSA's Engineers series, we sit down with Raine Gardner, PE, a native of Wausau, Wisconsin and a Michigan Tech grad. Raine is an expert in municipal engineering, including park and recreation planning and design and grant administration. Raine shares insight on work/life balance while leading MSA's Park and Recreation Community of Practice. 

It is important for companies in the AEC sector to stay proactive to make sure they are staying up to date with new technology and AEC trends. See how the boiling frog theory applies to AEC companies.

The construction industry is on the rebound in a post-recession environment, as evidenced by an unemployment rate of 8.9 percent, an 11 percent decrease since 2010. The positive trend should continue.