What a crazy and tumultuous year. We’ve fortunately seen stores open back up, social distancing requirements loosen, and all of us return to a more normal routine. However, in...
Industry Trends
Mid-Year Construction Industry Outlook
At the beginning of the year, we shared a future outlook for our industry based on conditions at the time. It was clear then the supply chain would have a major impact on...
How Telling Stories Can Improve Quality
“People forget facts, but they remember stories.” Joseph Campbell I’ve heard that quote a lot in my professional career, and I believe it’s true. There’s even research that...
Why Mockups are an Invaluable Building Tool
Think back to the last time you picked a new paint color for your house. Did you paint the entire exterior of the house one color and step back to see if you liked it? I’m...
3 Features to Consider Including in Your Campus Renovation
Once, while working on a university renovation project, the Director of Campus Facilities told me that a student’s AC could go out and their department might not hear about it...
How to Recruit Today’s Top Talent
I recently got a call from one of our Superintendents, the kind of call that makes my day and fills me with pride. He just wanted to tell me that one of our summer co-ops, who...
Is Your Project Team Optimizing the Punch Process?
You’re cleaning up after dinner and doing the dishes. You rinse off the last fork and put in the dishwasher — all done. But then you walk back out to the table and see a plate...
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...