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Best Ideas of the Year

As the year winds down, it’s time to reflect on how we can be better at what we do. I sifted through my work and have five recommendations for you. Reinforce Your Company...

We Need Tech Now

A recent McKinsey & Company survey of business IT activities over the past year has found that “technology investments are proving their worth” for companies that have made them. In fact, technology-driven changes “are...

Parallels with the Past

The challenge that the wall and ceiling construction faces in this pandemic economy has many parallels with the past. Let’s investigate AWCI’s history and benefit from a little déjà vu. Big Plans The...

Better Behavioral Health

This month, National Suicide Prevention Week, Sept. 5–11, aims to engage the public on this all-important topic.      Mental health problems are vast. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 40% of...

The Lesson in Katerra’s Demise

If Katerra can’t make it, can any prefab company?      That is the question raised in the article, “This prefab builder raised more than $2 billion. Why did it crash?” published on FastCompany,...

Framing Will Never Be the Same

For two years, a construction technology firm in California has been working on a new interior wall framing system and is about ready to launch.      Hyperframe, the name of the product and the...

How Are You—Really

The pandemic isn’t over, and the economy still has a long way to go to achieve stability. And material prices and availability remain top concerns for the construction industry.      But another concern that...

One for All

Wouldn’t it be great if the design and construction of the most common wall types could be standardized?      We now have that opportunity with the launch of a new industry-wide information exchange—the Partition...

Three Industry Disruptions

Disruption is underway in wall and ceiling construction whether we like it or not.          This period of time reminds me of the 1970s, when AWCI members were adding drywall and steel framing...