FALO

Change Your Mindset or Suffer the Consequences

By Brad Wolff We live in a world of unpredictable and uncontrollable change. How can we survive and even thrive when our environment turns against...

Cognitive Biases

By Susan Robertson To survive the pandemic, companies were forced to adapt very quickly to radically new circumstances. Even large organizations—where it’s typically difficult to...

Are You a Boss or a Leader?

Success starts and stops with an organization’s leadership. And any business is as strong, or as weak, as the leader at the helm of...

Workforce Management: pt 2 of 4

There is no such thing as the perfect schedule in construction. Unless you can see into the future and predict everything from sick days...
infrastructure plan

Three Tips for Contractors in Light of the $1.5 Trillion Infrastructure...

There is no doubt that the recent actions of President Donald Trump have been made with his signature phrase in mind: Make America Great...

Overview of the AIA’s New Insurance and Bonds Exhibit

By Josh Stover The American Institute for Architects (AIA) is the self-proclaimed “voice of the architectural profession” and the preeminent source of form contracts used...

Stop Work Authority

We hear from clients that they have given employees stop work authority. If they see something unsafe or are unsure about something they see...

Finish Projects Faster

Several years ago, we were the general contractor on a 70,000-square-foot concrete tilt-up office and manufacturing building for a major company. The project superintendent,...

Competent Person

One somewhat confusing term that frequently shows up in OSHA regulations is that of the “competent person.” Although competent person requirements show up in...

Reducing Risk

Duane Duhamel is the corporate health, safety and environmental (HSE) director at ISN, leading and overseeing the HSE RAVS® and Corporate HSE personnel. He...