With a desk full of contracts and documents, trainings and worksite visits, there’s not much time left in the day for reading lengthy articles on the latest construction industry trends, right?

Yet, construction pros need to stay up-to-date if they want their business to stay up-to-speed with their clients and customers, and ahead of the competition. Infographics are a solution to the problem of shortage of reading time.

A thorough infographic can give you solid information, stats and other data, and reliable resources for learning more about a trending topic in your part of the construction industry. They are usually colorful depictions of key information using graphics, brief text and other images. Some may even plug-in a video or animation.

Infographics can be great resources to incorporate into training, researching a new gadget, for sharing with residential or business development customers, or identifying topics relevant to your business development that warrant more in-depth reading.

We’ve compiled a short list of infographics on a variety of industry topics, but you can find infographics specific to your needs in several easy ways:

Check the posting date for the infographics that you find online. It may help to add the year, “2017” to your search terms otherwise you could be looking at outdated graphics. Better quality graphics will usually include a copyright date and sources (either on the bottom of the graphic or on the page where it is posted).

Green / Sustainability Topics

Safety/ Disaster Preparedness

You can find a wide variety of infographics on safety specific topics such as ladders, forklift and platforms, back injury, and so forth.

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