Aug
30
2012
In this week’s Engineering News-Record (ENR), the top 225 international contractors, their revenues and active markets are discussed. Despite worldwide economic fluctuations, these contractors demonstrated tremendous strength in 2011 with overall revenues up 18% at $453.02B. Of those revenues, $57.972M were generated by U. S.-based firms. These contractors had a healthy 2011 with a 29% …
May
24
2012
Last week in our post, ENR Discusses A/E/C Industry With Prominent Professionals, we highlighted Engineering News-Record’s (ENR) webcast on its Top 400 Contractors issue. This particular edition of ENR is always of interest to A/E/C industry professionals as it discusses the prior year’s contracting revenues (domestic and international) and the hot markets driving activity. If …
May
17
2012
Engineering News-Record’s (ENR) infamous Top 400 Contractors issue was released last week and the popular publication also hosted its annual respective webcast on May 9th with some of the industry’s prominent professionals. Moderating the webcast was Paul Bonington, Vice President Media & Publisher, ENR and panelists were: Allen H. Jones, LEED AP – Corporate Vice President of …
Oct
19
2011
Source: ENR Even though the economy has put a strain on transportation projects throughout the country, the demand is real and contractors have still found ways to move forward by diversifying their markets, expanding their regions and offering alternative project delivery methods, including public private partnerships. With challenges like drastically tightened profit margins and …
Jul
05
2011
In last week’s blog post, Business Development and Its 6 Biggest Pain Points, we discussed the challenges that the US engineering and construction industry is facing with business development (BD) and noted Fails Management Institute’s (FMI) recent report on BD challenges and changing practices within the construction sector. Due to Helbling & Associates performing multiple searches …
Jun
28
2011
The US engineering and construction industry has been hit hard by the past few years with many companies working off most of their backlogs and experiencing difficulties as they try to secure new projects. As the industry struggles to slowly climb out of the recession, many contractors are finding that their traditional market sectors offer …
