
A cycle timeout
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A disturbance in the Force
Construction professionals everywhere felt a great disturbance in the Force when Menlo Park, Calif.-based Katerra filed for bankruptcy in early


Unbalanced equations
With consolidators doing their best to hoover up both independents and each other in recent days, some have forgotten about the


You can’t get there from here
More April showers in the housing market. Starts and permits are out and both the U.S. and Canada are down for


Job growth takes a holiday
That was a close call. We were running out of excuses for pessimism until the April jobs report came out


A well-defined pension plan
I just realized I’ve been looking at this wrong the entire time. Word on the street is that another major


A working definition of innovation
Last fall’s M&A feeding frenzy made more than a few independents nervous. First there was the merger of Builders FirstSource