Executive summary. The best employees can be the ones that want to shoot to the top and take an executive role as early as possible – not everyone...
Leaving Business Puberty, Age Matters
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No Damage for Delay Holds in Value Engineering Job
Executive summary. Value engineering, no damage for delay (a killer clause!), and cardinal change are all terms that seasoned construction...
Sweet Spot for Cost of Failure
Executive summary. Both engineering failures, and the prevention of engineering failures, can have extraordinary costs. These costs can be...
The Pipeline Podcast Is Now The Build America Podcast
If you’ve been listening to my show for a while, you know I’m passionate about sharing hard-won lessons from my 35+ years in heavy civil...
What is a Venturi Eductor?
Executive summary. There are different ways to prime a water pump. Here is one way you can do it using compressed air and the Venturi effect. And...
Jet Grout and Soil Mixing – The 101
Executive summary. Soil improvement is a broad all-encompassing term which describes both an engineering solution and a construction method. It’s a...