In A World With Lots of Spin – Engineers Must Keep Things Straight
It’s tough to get a straight story these days. Sometimes it seems like everything we hear has just a bit of a twist to it. Perhaps not overt lies, but a twist here and a spin there – you know what I mean. It’s hard to know exactly what you’re dealing with without performing thorough […]
The Benefits of In-House Peer Reviewed Reports
Peer reviews, in the context of forensic engineering, are a method of analyzing and critiquing the work of others for the purposes of reporting to higher levels of accuracy and overall quality. In other words, a peer reviewer is another set of eyes that checks for flaws, inaccuracies, and omissions. I personally think peer reviews […]
What’s the Deal With Stucco
Stucco is an attractive and cost-effective exterior veneer system, but it has developed a bad reputation over the past couple decades because of many failures and problems with water intrusion. Many lawsuits have been filed against builders and contractors for alleged defective installation of stucco and its synthetic, prefabricated cousin EIFS. The claims and lawsuits […]
Good Faith and Fair Dealing: The Essence of Construction Agreements
Everybody loves to get hung up in contract language. On construction projects, contractors, owners, and subs will fire contract language back and forth like missiles in what gets to be an arms race of legalities that negatively affects projects by creating panic and anxiety. When lawyers get involved, the language starts to get twisted and […]
The Challenge of Climate Change for the Construction Industry
The changes we are experiencing in our climate are affecting all of our lives. Every industry is being affected by what is happening, but is having an especially big impact on the construction sector. Governments across the world are waking up to the fact that extremes of weather are rapidly becoming the norm. In many […]
How Covid-19 Will Impact the Global Construction Industry?
There is hardly any industry around the globe that is not affected by the Coronavirus. In 2020, almost all commercial activities came to a halt for a while and badly affected the economy. The construction industry is no exception. Increased health risks that came along with COVID-19 worsened the productivity and efficiency in the construction […]
A Long Road to a Professional Engineering License
My boss at my first engineering job told me that a PE license and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee. stock-vector-vector-blueprint-cup-for-tea-or-coffee-icon-on-engineer-or-architect-background-316343297 Now that’s one heck of a saying, and at 22 years old, I didn’t really get it. I eventually put two and two together and realized that since a cup of […]
Public RFPs: What Do We Do With You?
I’ve spent the past four years starting a construction company through the public bidding process. While I have arguably been successful in doing this, it has not comeRFP without plenty of headache, heartache, and just plain unimaginable stress. I’ve probably bid at least 100 public RFPs, but I’ve only been awarded less than 10. I’ve […]
