Personal achievement feels rewarding, but it’s fragile when it depends on outshining others. If you make your work about lifting someone else’s performance, you create goodwill, trust, and a reputation for being a multiplier. People share information with you sooner, collaborate more readily, and remember that you made them better.

Start with clarity: learn what “success” means for each person and what’s in the way. In your next check-in, ask for one priority and one obstacle. Then help with a concrete move—remove a dependency, secure resources, coach a skill, or make an introduction—while letting them own the work.

Make it sustainable by building systems, not heroics. Document lessons, set expectations, and give early feedback so people grow rather than rely on you. Protect your time by saying no to “busy help” that doesn’t change outcomes. When others win repeatedly, your Team becomes stronger, and your success stops being a solo act.

Help one person daily by removing a blocker and giving public credit for their progress.

Pirtle Construction frames expertise as the ability to choose the right path, not a single method. It says it crafts solutions through diverse delivery options, virtual design capability, sustainability leadership, and forward-thinking spaces. The promise is that a client’s vision becomes a clear blueprint, not a moving target.

Its delivery menu starts early. Pre-construction emphasizes cost estimating, value engineering, and detailed planning to optimize parameters and reduce risk. CMAR adds collaborative, transparent management with early design input to protect cost, schedule, and constructability. For single-point accountability, design-build unifies design and construction; design-bid-build keeps scope and bidding clearly staged.

Systems strengthen execution. Lean tools like Last Planner, Pull Planning, and Value Stream Mapping aim for coordination and productivity. VDC relies on in-house BIM to visualize work, improve communication, and mitigate risk. Sustainability is positioned as a core practice, backed by LEED experience and recognized green-contractor credentials.

Pirtle turns delivery flexibility, BIM, Lean, and sustainability into predictable outcomes.

Nevada received federal approval to deploy about $170 million of its broadband award, targeting roughly 28,000 unserved locations. The state had a larger fiber-focused plan for about 50,000 locations, but it was withdrawn after new guidance pushed states toward lower-cost, technology-neutral options. The revised plan shifts the mix toward more satellite and less fiber, and construction still depends on signing provider contracts and clearing permits.

For builders, the money translates into thousands of small utility jobs: pole surveys, make-ready work, conduit, trenching, directional drilling, and restoration. The hybrid mix changes the estimating. Fiber is capital-intensive but durable, while satellite and wireless reduce civil scope but increase reliance on power drops, site access, and enforceable service standards. Every delay in rights of way, railroad crossings, or approvals compounds because crews move in short bursts across a vast geography.

The winning approach is industrialization. Standardize designs and bills of material, prearrange attachment and permitting pathways, and track progress by passed locations and verified speeds, not just miles installed. If owners publish precise change control and pay promptly for completed segments, contractors can scale without padding bids to cover cash flow risk.

Standardize designs early and lock permits before crews mobilize.

America’s entry-level new construction has thinned out: research estimates the share of entry-level homes fell from about 40% in the early 1980s to around 7% by 2019, while prices climbed above $410,000 nationwide. Builders didn’t forget how to build small; many stopped because land, fees, and minimum lot rules make larger homes the more profitable option.

Now, affordability is forcing a partial reset. Builders report buyers prioritizing efficiency over square footage, and the median new home size fell from 2,200 square feet in 2023 to 2,150 in 2024, the smallest in 15 years. Townhomes have reached a record share of the single-family market, and some cities are loosening rules so smaller lots and simpler layouts can pencil.

The opportunity is a repeatable product, not a custom mini house. Standardize a few compact plans, use shared wall designs where allowed, and preselect finishes that keep change orders low. On the land side, target jurisdictions that permit smaller lots, reduced parking requirements, or missing-middle forms. Contractors who can price these builds fast and deliver tight cycle times will capture demand that resale inventory still can’t meet.

Standardize smaller plans and secure lots where rules allow density.

Good morning, crew. Today, we will control falling-object hazards wherever work is performed above people. Hard hats stay on in the work zone. We will set up exclusion zones under overhead tasks, use toeboards and debris control, and secure tools and materials so nothing can roll, slide, or drop. If you must work below, get permission, stay alert, and keep moving through quickly. If you see loose material on an edge, fix it now or call it out.

Falling objects are usually small, fast, and silent: hand tools, bolts, wood scraps, and chunks of concrete. Most incidents start with poor housekeeping on elevated surfaces, unsecured tools, or material stacked too close to an edge. Control the source first by keeping platforms clean, using toe boards, screens, or netting, and staging materials safely. Control people's exposure next by barricading drop areas and using spotters when lifts or overhead work are active.

This is simple discipline: keep the edge clean, keep tools secured, and keep people out from underneath. If the job requires working over others, we stop and build protection first, then communicate the limits. No one enters a drop area without the crew above knowing and the hazard being controlled. Speak up early, and we will reset the setup.

Keep edges clean, tools tethered, and people clear of the drop area.