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• Smart Surfaces Come to Columbia

  Columbia, S.C., has approximately 45,000 roofs, 3,400 lane-miles of road, and 700 acres of parking lots–surfaces that absorb up to 95% of incoming solar radiation. The danger here is these areas can heat up the city during the summer months and lead to flooding issues. Left untreated, these dark and impervious areas can make parts [...]

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• Civil Infrastructure at a Crossroads

  The numbers are in. Civil infrastructure is under increasing stress—and not just from the physical stress of wear and tear or climate factors. Rather, the industry is seeing significant economic changes that are putting increasing stress on the industry. At the top of the list, we have rising labor and material costs, which are changing [...]

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• Frontier Firms Embrace Agentic AI

  With the rise of agentic AI (artificial intelligence), it is time to gear up for a new era of work—one that will exist in an intelligent economy and one where Frontier Firms will guide the way. But first, let’s back up to really take a step forward. Let’s better understand where we have been. Historically, [...]

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• The Safety Paradox

  Safety has changed dramatically in the construction industry in the past century. If we journey back 100 years, when the Empire State Building was constructed, we would have seen a very different construction jobsite. Men would have been hanging off the top of the structure with little to no harness and would have been more [...]

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• Fact of the Week – 9/8/2025

  #Factoftheweek $30 billion in 2030 Network operators will generate more than $30 billion from cellular IoT (Internet of Things) connectivity globally in 2030. This is significant growth—a 74% rise from $18 billion in 2025, according to Juniper Research. But to capitalize on this growth, network operators will need to do a few things: What are [...]

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