A superintendent walking across a construction site may be doing exactly what you hired them to do. Or they may be acting as an extraordinarily expensive camera. The difference matters. Construction depends on experienced people being where their experience is needed. Superintendents need to see work firsthand. Project managers need to understand changing conditions. Estimators need context. Engineers need information they can trust. Owners need visibility into what is happen

Construction margins rarely disappear because of one catastrophic decision. More often, they erode a little at a time. A material quantity is based on last week’s conditions. A crew is scheduled around work that wasn’t as far along as expected. A stockpile looked sufficient from the ground. A change was noticed only after the next trade had already moved in. None of those decisions necessarily looks unreasonable when it is made. The problem is that the information behind it m