Micah Vance is a Senior Project Manager with 17 years’ experience helping plan healthcare projects from the early preconstruction stage to the final closeout. Here’s 8 questions...
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4 Trends Impacting the Healthcare Industry
It’s been one year since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the United States, and while we’ve written about the many significant impacts it made on the healthcare industry, the...
How to Hire an All-Star Coach to Build Your Project
If you were in charge of hiring a coach for your favorite college football team, where would you start? You’d want someone great, with a winning record. But, would you only...
3 Ways to Overcome Major Development Challenges
The construction industry added 110,000 new jobs in March. Although we’re still below where we were in February 2020, it’s a welcome sign of growth. Our own company is hiring...
Using Post-Planning to Improve Cost Certainty and Efficiency
Have you ever thought to yourself, “that meeting could have been an email”? That’s actually a great example of a Delta to bring up in a Plus/Delta meeting. If you haven’t taken...
Today’s Quality Assurance vs. Quality Control
Quality assurance vs. quality control. The two get lumped together frequently. Companies have QA/QC programs and QA/QC managers, so naturally you could assume the two are one and...
Meet Our Experts: Andrew Bray
Andrew Bray is an experienced healthcare superintendent and leads our project team at Children’s of Alabama, where we remain on site to help the hospital expand, renovate, or...
Meet Our Experts: Sky Strange
Sky Strange is a healthcare superintendent with 20 years’ experience leading healthcare construction projects. He’s currently working on a renovation project at a medical center...
Why Healthcare and Modular Construction are a Great Match
In the past year, we’ve written about modular construction half a dozen times. That’s because, we believe, our industry is heading more and more towards adopting the building...
How to Use Virtual Inspections to Improve Your Healthcare Project
What are some things that seem normal, but wouldn’t a year ago? Wearing masks comes to mind first. Staying six feet apart. Communicating by video instead of face to face. That...
3 Benefits of Using Pull Plan in the Design Phase
When I first broach the subject of bringing our construction team in during the design phase to pull plan the design schedule, I am often met with more than a little skepticism....
Steel Price Surge and Historically Long Lead Times: What it Means for Commercial Development
If you stopped by a gas station in the past few days, you probably noticed it costs more to fill up your tank then it did last week. Last year, the cost of lumber shot up and...