Thoughts, ideas, news, and discoveries from the team behind 7PM.
In a market where input prices swing double digits and lead times run to years, the contingency line is not padding. It is the most honest number on the page — if you are willing to explain it.
Contractors are spending more on marketing than they have in five years, and the old channels are not the ones paying it back. For an MBE, the shift is an opening — if you read it right.
Sixteen venues across three countries had to become World Cup stadiums without a single new one being built. The 2026 conversions are a master class in designing for a building's second job.
Contractor AI adoption doubled in a single year. On the jobsite, that mostly means one thing — a camera watching the work. Here is what it actually catches, and what it still cannot.
Public owners are moving to progressive design-build and CMAR faster than at any point in a decade. The delivery method you pick shapes the project more than any design choice that follows it.
Steel, aluminum, and copper carry the heaviest tariffs in years, and input prices are climbing at the fastest pace since 2022. Here is how we are writing volatility into a number a client can trust.
The data-center boom is rewriting what a large project looks like — and pulling skilled trades off every other job in the market, ours included. Here is how we are reading it from Louisville.