Construction Rework Costs: Why Coordination, Not Labour, Is the Real Bottleneck
On a $50 million project, a conservative rework rate of 5% means $2.5 million spent doing work twice. That is why I do not think labour is the only bottleneck in construction. Labour shortages are real, but even when crews are available, projects lose time and money when the information that guides them is incomplete,..
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Texas Housing Market 2026: Austin vs Dallas, Decoded
Many people describe the 2026 Texas housing market as a slowdown. The data tell a more nuanced story. Sales are rising, but prices are soft, and the two biggest metros are sending different signals. According to the Texas A&M Real Estate Research Center, statewide home sales in June 2026 were up 8.6% year over year,..
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Fort Worth Real Estate: Reading the Texas A&M Campus Demand Wave
On August 5, 2026, Texas A&M University-Fort Worth opened its first academic building in downtown Fort Worth and broke ground on the next phase of the campus. When fully built, the Texas A&M-Fort Worth district is projected to support more than 25,000 direct and indirect jobs and generate more than $3 billion in annual economic..
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Construction Budget Overruns Start Before the Site: The Estimate Accuracy Problem
A construction budget does not break in the field. It breaks in the weeks before the field, when the estimate is prepared, the scope is written and the assumptions are locked. When the overrun appears on site, everyone points at the crew or the contractor. But the overrun was only reported on site. It was..
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Alberta’s 2026 Capital Plan: Execution Is the Real Competitive Advantage
Alberta’s Budget 2026 includes a $28.3 billion capital plan for 2026 to 2029, $2.2 billion more than the previous budget. It allocates $4.9 billion to health care capacity, $3.3 billion to schools, $2.7 billion to provincial highways and bridges, $7.1 billion to municipal infrastructure and $4.2 billion to maintenance and renewal of existing assets. For..
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Alberta’s Construction Pipeline: Are You Positioned to Capture It?
Alberta’s construction pipeline is large by any measure. ICBA’s Winter 2026 Construction Monitor estimates the value of major projects in the province at about $166 billion, with roughly $71 billion under construction. Industry estimates of capital projects across all stages run even higher. The province is pursuing a $100 billion data centre target, energy and..
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Large-Scale Project Management in Alberta: Systems Built for Multi-Phase Delivery
Alberta is no longer just building houses one lot at a time. Multi-phase master-planned communities, large purpose-built rental portfolios, institutional projects and data centres are reshaping the province’s construction pipeline. In December 2024 the provincial government set a target of attracting $100 billion in data centre investment within five years, and large technology projects have..
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Canada’s Housing Execution Gap: Why Job Sites Slow Down Delivery
Canada needs far more homes than it is building. In June 2025, CMHC estimated that the country would need up to 4.8 million additional homes over the next decade, roughly 430,000 to 480,000 starts a year, to restore affordability to pre-pandemic levels. In 2025 Canada started 259,028 homes, and CMHC’s 2026 outlook expects starts to..
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Real Estate Feasibility in Alberta: Where Projects Lose Money Before Construction
Most real estate developers in Alberta are not losing money on site. They are losing it 12 to 18 months earlier, during feasibility, and do not know it yet. By the time construction starts, the decisions that determine the project’s margin have already been made: the product, the unit mix, the price assumptions, the schedule..
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Alberta Wages vs House Prices: The Affordability Gap Developers Must Model
For a generation, Alberta’s economic story was simple: higher wages than the rest of Canada and more affordable homes. In 2013, average wages in the province were as much as 17% above the national average. By 2024 that premium had shrunk to about 2%. Meanwhile, home prices in Calgary have moved closer to national levels…
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Eros belotti
Construction project manager with over 20 years of experience in Europe and the Canary Islands. Specialized in modular housing, container construction, real estate development and international project management. Founder of Reforma Vivienda Tenerife and Donkey Lab.
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