M ost construction challenges don’t fail because of materials, methods, or machines. They fail quietly—through decisions made too early, signals ignored too long, or responsibilities that slowly drift out of view. The most expensive lessons on a jobsite rarely come from construction itself, but from ideas that live outside it: how systems behave under pressure, how humans respond to uncertainty, and how absence—of attention, clarity, or ownership—creates risk long before anyt

I n the world of drones, we’ve grown accustomed to thinking in three dimensions — length, width, and height. And for good reason. Modern...