Link Lounge:
Don’t Get Trapped in Pilot Purgatory
24% of companies have deployed AI org-wide.
12% are still stuck in pilot mode.
The gap isn’t just operational—it’s existential.
Peggy’s Blog:
Civil Infrastructure at a Crossroads
The numbers are in. Civil infrastructure is under increasing stress—and not just from the physical stress of wear and tear or climate factors. Rather, the industry is seeing significant economic changes that are putting increasing stress on the industry.
At the top of the list, we have rising labor and material costs, which are changing the game, but really that is just the tip of the iceberg. It is time we get a much clearer picture about where we are now with our infrastructure, so we can move forward and build a better tomorrow. Otherwise, the cracks in the infrastructure are only going to widen, and ultimately the failure will be greater than we could have ever imagined.
Laura’s Blog:
The Safety Paradox
Safety has changed dramatically in the construction industry in the past century. If we journey back 100 years, when the Empire State Building was constructed, we would have seen a very different construction jobsite. Men would have been hanging off the top of the structure with little to no harness and would have been more likely to wear newsboy caps than hard hats. Today, we can’t enter a jobsite without the right PPE (personal protective equipment).
And yet there is still a perception that construction is an unsafe industry to work in. If you have been listening to The Peggy Smedley Show podcast, then you know a Dodge Construction Network survey found safety ranked first by a large margin among the concerns that discourage people from considering a career in the construction industry. However, contractors who are already in the industry rank safety concerns a distant eighth among the factors that they believe prevent people from joining the industry. There is a rather large discrepancy there.
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October: How to Secure Your Data
November: Construction Connectivity Trends to Watch