Outlook & Trends Archives

Construction Subcontractors Need AI Guardrails That Protect Margins and Field Judgment 0
- Improving Productivity, Outlook & Trends, Risk Management
- September 1, 2026
By Gleb Tsipursky, Disaster Avoidance Experts Construction subcontractors face a practical AI problem that differs sharply from the one described in most corporate technology advice. A specialty contractor cannot measure success by how many emails, summaries, or estimates an AI tool produces. The work succeeds when a bid reflects the actual scope, a submittal matches
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Mental Health Is a Leadership Imperative in Construction 0
- Best Practices, HEALTH, Improving Productivity, Leadership, Outlook & Trends
- September 1, 2026
George Nash, Maxim Consulting Group In 2023, there were 982 work-related fatalities in the construction industry. During that same period, an estimated 5,095 construction professionals died by suicide. While our industry has made tremendous progress in improving physical safety, these numbers make one thing clear: protecting our people requires more than hard hats, PPE, and
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Collaboration That Saves Lives: Inside the ASAC Health & Safety Summit 0
- Best Practices, HEALTH, Improving Productivity, Outlook & Trends
- September 1, 2026
By Nick Williams, ASA of Colorado Construction is an industry built on coordination. Trades stacking work, schedules aligning, materials arriving on time, and people showing up for each other when the stakes are high. What we do not always coordinate well enough is care. The 2025 ASAC Health & Safety Summit was born out of
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Spotlight on Substance Use Prevention, Harm Reduction, and Recovery in Construction 0

By Cal Beyer, CWP, NAC Over the past decade, the construction industry has made meaningful progress addressing workplace mental health. A majority of the attention has focused on suicide prevention. In July 2016 the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) released data showing the construction industry has a high rate of suicide. Shortly thereafter

You Cannot Choose a Career You Have Never Seen 0

Why Exposure May Be Construction’s Most Important Workforce Strategy By Angie Simon, Maxim Consulting Group “You cannot choose a career you have never seen.” That simple reality may be one of the biggest reasons the construction industry is facing a workforce crisis today. Across the country, subcontractors are struggling to find skilled workers. Experienced tradespeople

“Put the Rookie In – We Paid for Them So Let’s See What They are Worth”0

How organizations persistently run a deficit in the personnel arena By Gregg M. Schoppman, FMI Corp. No one has ever said, “If we lose <INSERT NAME>, we are in so much trouble…” Consider a championship football team. There are only 11 players on the field at any given time representing a team. However, whether collegiate