• Navigating the Payment Maze in Construction: A Specialty Contractor’s Perspective

    Navigating the Payment Maze in Construction: A Specialty Contractor’s Perspective0

    By Josh LaSharr, Well Built Construction Consulting In the world of construction, the most complex challenges often arise not from the technical aspects of building, but from the intricacies of payment practices. For specialty contractors, managing extended payment timelines and inconsistent cash flow can be just as challenging as the work itself. Industry norms include

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  • Welcome New Members!0

    Welcome to our newest members who joined in October! We’re glad you’re here. Your expertise strengthens our community, and we look forward to building great things together. AF Steel Fabricators, LLC All Access Services Aprio LLC Audio Visual Data Infrastructure LLC Capitol Commercial Glazing CK Fairco Inc Clark Pacific Desert Vista Concrete Epta Construction EsselREAD MORE
  • Understanding a Project through a Performance Timeline0

    By Kent Winger, PE, Delve Underground Best Practices for Evaluating a Project’s Performance and Reasons for Delay Some of the construction claims that Delve Underground works on involve evaluating a project’s problems and the resulting delays to the project’s schedule. We often rely on the contemporaneous monthly project schedule updates to evaluate the progress of

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  • Dates & Figs – October 20250

    Data Reveals the Biggest Motivators and Challenges to AI Adoption in Construction The majority of the construction industry is embracing artificial intelligence, albeit at varying levels of implementation, but significant challenges remain that may ultimately stunt adoption rates, according to the 2025 Annual AI Benchmarking Report from BuiltWorlds. Nearly two-thirds of respondents to the 2025

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  • Removing the Stigma

    Removing the Stigma0

    A Call for Action to Defeat Mental Illness and Substance Abuse By Gregg M. Schoppman, FMI Corp. Many readers are expecting another piece on strategy and project tactics. Unfortunately, this isn’t one of them. I am a son of a man that battled mental illness and substance abuse for most of his life. This is

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  • President’s Letter – September 2025

    President’s Letter – September 20250

    I intentionally held off writing this month’s letter until the Sunday before SubExcel (sorry, Mary!). As I pack for what promises to be an unforgettable and record-setting week for ASA and SubExcel, I can’t help but feel a wave of nostalgia. From Nashville, where Drew took that now-legendary spill on the electric scooter, to Las Vegas, where

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