In leadership, the impulse to fill silence can dilute authority. When you explain every detail, you invite debate on the parts that don’t matter, and you risk promising more than you can deliver. Saying less forces you to choose what’s essential: the outcome, the constraint, and the next step.

Strategic brevity also makes room for others. Ask one good question, then pause long enough for real answers. People share risks, alternatives, and uncomfortable truths when they aren’t competing with your monologue. Your calm, concise presence signals confidence and helps the Team focus on decisions rather than words.

Try a simple rule: speak last in discussions and limit your direction to three sentences—what we’re doing, why now, and who owns the following action. If you feel the urge to over-justify, replace it with a check: “What would change your mind?” Document the decision, then stop relitigating it.

Speak last, ask one question, and give three-sentence directions in every meeting this week.

Kirchman Construction Co. has served Southeast Florida since 1971, building commercial projects from ground-up development to full turnkey delivery. Its portfolio spans veterinary facilities, office buildings, healthcare centers, and industrial warehouses, and it is known for reliability and precision.

The company’s continuity is literal: founder Ron Kirchman brought his son, Ronnie, onto jobsites early, and Ronnie later earned a degree in building construction from the University of Florida. After returning to the firm in 1989 and moving from estimating to project management, he ultimately became president as the business remained family-owned and values-led.

What makes longevity meaningful is adaptability. With nearly 500 projects completed, Kirchman says it has adjusted to shifting market conditions while keeping one constant: commitment to quality, honesty, integrity, and client satisfaction. A total-team approach treats the client as a partner and ensures hands-on involvement to protect details, budgets, and schedules, so outcomes remain reliable.

Kirchman’s hands-on, client-as-partner approach keeps family-built quality consistent across a changing South Florida market.

San Jose is moving to modernize its regional wastewater plant with a $200 million progressive design-build focused on biosolids. The upgrade centers on renewing aging mesophilic digesters and adding a fats, oils, and grease receiving facility to convert high-strength waste into additional biogas for onsite energy use.

For contractors, the project behaves like a hybrid of civil construction and an operating power facility. Work must fit around continuous treatment, odor control, and strict safety constraints. In contrast, long-lead items such as covers, gas piping, mixers, electrical equipment, and controls can more significantly affect the schedule than concrete does.

The business insight is that energy recovery upgrades reward disciplined commissioning. Owners who freeze interfaces early, package early-buy procurement, and track acceptance tests in real time can reduce hauling, stabilize operations, and prove public value. Teams that treat documentation as production will win repeat work as utilities chase reliability, resilience, and lower lifecycle cost.

Treat biosolids upgrades like energy projects: commission early, document relentlessly.

California’s Private Works Change Order Fair Payment Act now reshapes how private residential and mixed-use jobs handle extra-work disputes. For contracts entered on or after January 1, 2026, it creates a single, time-bound path for change-order and time-extension claims through January 1, 2030.

A claim must be sent separately by certified or registered mail, with supporting documentation. Owners have up to 30 days to answer in writing what is disputed versus undisputed, and undisputed sums must be paid within 60 days. If disagreements remain, the contractor can require a meet-and-confer, followed by nonbinding mediation, before proceeding to arbitration or court, while late undisputed payments accrue steep monthly interest.

Builders who want predictable closings should tighten change-order hygiene now: one claim log, one deadline owner, and clean backup for labor, materials, and schedule impacts. Follow the exact timelines to subs, split undisputed items early so cash keeps moving, and align lender draw rules with faster pay expectations. If payment stalls, the statute also gives contractors leverage to pause work after notice, making delay costs everyone’s problem.

Track claim deadlines; pay undisputed amounts fast to avoid stoppages.

Good morning, crew. Whenever we work on hydraulic lines, grease guns, or pressure washers, we treat them as capable of injecting fluid through the skin. Never use your hand to find a leak. Depressurize before loosening fittings, and keep your body out of the spray path. Wear eye protection and gloves that fit tightly. If you get a pinhole puncture, swelling, or numbness, treat it as an emergency and get medical care immediately.

These injuries often appear minor at first, such as a small puncture, but the fluid can travel beneath the skin and destroy tissue quickly. Pain can be delayed while swelling and damage increase. The risk is highest when a hose has a pinhole leak, a fitting is loosened under pressure, or someone attempts to stop a leak by hand. Prevention includes depressurizing, guarding the line of fire, and using tools to check leaks rather than fingers.

We prevent these injuries by respecting stored pressure and keeping our hands out of the hazard zone. If you see a mist, a pinhole stream, or a hose rubbing, stop and fix it before it fails. If an injection happens, do not downplay it. Report it, seek emergency care promptly, and inform the medical staff which fluid was involved. Fast action can save fingers, hands, and careers.

Zero leaks, zero shortcuts, zero injuries: depressurize, inspect, and keep hands out of the spray.

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