An example is the loudest message you send. When your calendar, conversations, and choices reflect your standards, people align without pressure. Consistency turns values into visible habits. The culture feels sturdy because actions match words. Influence grows as trust grows, and trust shortens the distance between plan and result.

Make the example practical. Define the outcome, the owner, and a clear definition of done. Prepare before meetings, ask better questions, and keep promises to the minute. Remove one obstacle each day. Replace lengthy updates with concise demos and customer feedback to keep progress transparent.

Over time, this pattern builds safety and speed. People volunteer ideas, take smarter risks, and hold one another to shared standards. Excellence becomes the norm because everyone can see what good looks like and how to achieve it together.

Ninety-day model standards clarify outcomes, assign owners, remove obstacles quickly, celebrate progress, and track visible customer value every week.

Behind every turn of a tap is a chain of intentional choices. Clow Valve focuses on the essentials that make water available and dependable. That purpose shows up in how they design, build, and support the products that protect neighborhoods and enable daily life.

They design and manufacture valves and fire hydrants, uniting foundry skills with modern processes. A culture of quality, safety, and service keeps attention on details from casting to final testing. That discipline shows up in performance that utilities can trust and crews can maintain.

Partnership completes the picture. Clow works with distributors, engineers, and municipalities to align specifications, documentation, and training. Responsive support, clear communication, and reliable delivery shorten downtime and extend asset life. The result is more than hardware. It is confidence that communities can plan, protect people, and grow with secure water networks.

Crafting valves and hydrants with quality, safety, and service, Clow strengthens water systems, reduces risk, and empowers resilient communities.

Port Houston finished its portion of the Houston Ship Channel Expansion Project 11 this week, widening the Galveston Bay reach from 530 to 700 feet and enabling safer two-way vessel movement. Construction began in 2022; the remaining federal segments are scheduled to run through 2029. The milestone shifts focus to how pilots, terminals, and tug operators recalibrate daily windows and fleet plans daily.

Pilot guidelines have already expanded daylight by roughly 2.5 hours, smoothing two-way traffic and reducing queue spikes. Larger container ships between fifteen and seventeen thousand TEU can now call Bayport more reliably. Effects cascade to berth scheduling, barge transloading, and fuel use, improving asset turns for marine contractors and landside drayage partners.

Beneficial use work continues, building marsh, bird islands, and oyster reefs with dredged material. That keeps environmental crews mobilized while navigation gains arrive immediately. Contractors should bank lessons on Tier four equipment, sediment handling, and real-time monitoring, because this playbook will shape bids on other constrained channels seeking similar safety, capacity, and emissions improvements.

Update pilot windows, reslot berths, coordinate tug availability, and document emissions savings to capture efficiency gains from the widened channel.

Fannie Mae quietly updated its Desktop Underwriter validation service over the weekend, enhancing the matching of employer names on loan applications with verification reports. The change applies to files submitted or resubmitted on or after October 25, enabling lenders to clear mismatches faster and reduce conditions tied to employment verification discrepancies. This common friction point pushes closings into the next month.

For builders, that reduces cycle-time risk exactly where quick move-ins concentrate: late-stage loans. Fewer conditions mean steadier rate locks, cleaner appraisal packages, and less need to pivot to alternate products at the eleventh hour. It also reduces fallout from preventable underwriting delays, keeping the sales pace aligned with scheduled completions.

Act now by mapping upcoming closings, requesting that partner lenders resubmit eligible files, and updating financing contingencies. Train sales teams to consistently record employer names during prequalification, and have processors upload corrected verification documentation promptly. Track turn times by lender this week and reward faster condition clearing with preferred lender slots in release calendars.

Request DU resubmissions, budget fewer VOE conditions, tighten closing timelines, and prioritize quick move-ins likely to benefit from verification.

Good morning, Team!

Today, we are covering the safe operation of telehandlers for lifting and placing materials.

Why It Matters

Tip-overs, strikes, and load drops can happen quickly. Long booms shift the center of gravity, slopes reduce stability, and attachments change capacity.

Strategies for Safe Operation

Discussion Questions

Conclusion

Know the chart, inspect the machine, and control the zone to prevent tip-overs and strikes.

Plan it, chart it, place smart!