Both the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and the Financial Standards Accounting Board (FASB) have recently issued new accounting standards related to lease assets.

The skilled-labor shortage is on the minds of many in our industry, especially as budgeting decisions are being made for 2018 recruitment. Here, one large manufacturer discusses its strategy for tackling this growing problem.

The catchphrase, Are you IoT ready? (Which I sometimes shorten to RUIoT-Ready) has raised some interesting questions.

Both residential and commercial contractors got filled in on the latest technology that’s influencing the markets served by plumbing contractors at the CONNECT 2017 conference and show.

This may take some getting used to. Or maybe not. Perhaps we’ll slide so easily into our houses and buildings just doing things on their own that we’ll wonder how we ever managed before.

As each contractor is different, so are their trucks and the reasons why the trucks they run work the best for them.

The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), which links components or systems via network connectivity, has enabled the instant transfer of data across people, projects and borders.

More and more software aimed at contractors features electronic data capture in the field to replace manual input and increase workflow efficiency, either as a component of a larger solution or as a dedicated app.

I created this Timeline of Smart Building Automation Evolution, with over a hundred events linking thousands of articles depicting our industry's history and its (sometimes) painfully slow evolution.