Having signed a memorandum of understanding, the organizations aim to "support continuous improvement of the building and construction sector."

Although an official productivity statistic or index maintained by a government agency for the construction industry still does not exist, "we're getting closer to it," Paul Goodrum, associate professor for the University of Kentucky's Department of Civil Engineering, told attendees of the ENR-CURT Construction Business Forum June 15. Why does he feel this way? Find out in CPC/BIM's coverage of the event in this issue.

Also in this edition of CPC/BIM, the vice president of Marsh Risk Consulting offers advice on change-management issues involving construction projects, John Jurewicz gives Revit 2011 a test drive, Tammy McCuen examines the starting point for building information modeling implementation, Gordon Aronson addresses the use of InfoMaker with P6 schema, and don't forget Industry Updates.