Is your firm an investment value candidate? If you’re looking to sell, this is the level of value at which you have the most opportunity to maximize your exit.

“A lot of managers in AEC firms – design and technical people who have become managers – need to learn a few supervisory basics.”

If you’re a firm owner or design professional, don’t leave contractors guessing. Using plain language, make your intent clear to avoid disputes, change orders, and claims.

President and CEO of Hitchcock Design Group (Best Firm Architecture #7 for 2018), a 35-person landscape architecture firm headquartered in Naperville, Illinois.

Whether it’s growth, ownership transition, diversity and inclusion, or technology, firms shouldn’t shy away from change if they want to be successful.

Employees at AEC firms say they need ample opportunities to learn and train. My advice is to give them what they’re asking for.

Portland office leader for PCS Structural Solutions believes in the legacy of engineering as a community builder.

If you’re like the rest of us, your firm is busy. But as the projects and revenue pour in, so do plenty of problems that you’ll have to deal with.

At what should be an incredibly productive and exciting time in the lives of young professionals, the AEC industry is failing to engage.

“Why do people lose interest in their own businesses and, perhaps more importantly, what can you do to keep this from happening?”

President and CEO of RLG Consulting Engineers (Best Firm Structural #13 for 2018), a Dallas-based firm in business for 65 years.

“It’s a debate that’s been ongoing for years in our industry, thanks in no small part to the popularity of Good to Great, an academic study of huge, publicly-traded corporations and other organizations.”