Extreme weather occurrences — from hurricanes and floods to heatwaves and wildfires — are becoming more persistent and severe. This evolving climate landscape presents new challenges for construction ...

The construction industry has pushed to adapt to extreme heat, but this summer has shown it can’t avoid the trade-offs of rising temperatures. Firms have made investments to ensure worker safety and ...

The summer months are a time of high production for construction professionals, with the warmer, drier weather conducive to more productive construction work. But the warmer weather also means ...

This video documents an ambitious attempt to compare the cheapest possible shelter to a resort-level build using real-world ...

Construction workers make up more than a third of heat-related deaths on job sites. As record-shattering heat waves spread to temperate cities, more construction companies are forced to grapple with ...

Winter typhoons and summer monsoons regularly pummel workers and equipment. Strong tides churn in a sea crisscrossed by submerged pipelines and some of the busiest shipping channels in the world.

I should have brought a clipboard. When my editor suggested I try to go "behind the scenes" to capture the circus behind ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," I wasn't sure how to do that. Perhaps I ...

Anti-vaccine and extreme right-wing groups have led violent rallies in Melbourne over the last two days, targeting the building industry and the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) ...