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McKissack & McKissack posts new blog stories and articles about trends and ideas in the AEC industry. Browse our stories below.
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Deryl McKissack
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Deryl McKissack, PE
We Need to Solve the Construction Worker Shortage: Here’s How to Do It
Structural shifts in labor supply and demand require a collaborative effort among AEC industry participants to spearhead workforce development programs.
Improving the Customer Experience with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
While many corporations embrace diversity, equity and inclusion in the workforce, McKissack is helping Target push the concept beyond its corporate walls.
With Benefits Galore, the AEC Industry is Turning to Prefab Construction
Prefab construction can offer a more sustainable, efficient, economical and expedient way to build as the AEC industry faces material and labor shortages today.
From the Front Lines: Conquering Supply Chain Issues in 2022
To overcome supply chain disruptions in construction, McKissack’s PMCM team has developed a system to track material shortages and delays nationally that can be applied locally.
5 Challenges AEC Firms Face Post Pandemic to Improve K-12 School Buildings
Whether a K-12 school building is a legacy structure or built anew, making it healthy, safe, connected and resilient requires new PMCM strategies. Part Two of a Two-blog Series.
Effective DE+I Programs Come From Deep Within a Company’s Core Values
When leaders’ beliefs about diversity, equity and inclusion are communicated and reinforced, they shape employees’ perceptions, behaviors and understanding
Bringing DEI to the Capital: Next Up, Cultural Spaces for Women and Latinos
As our nation’s “front yard,” Washington, D.C. must reflect our populace. Yet DE&I have only been visible in its landmarks and cultural spaces, and the teams that build them, only recently.
Parity for Minorities on Boards is Still 52 Years Away. It’s Time to Get to Work
Women and minorities are profoundly underrepresented in the architecture, engineering, and construction industries. Focusing on the right priorities can help minority leaders build their businesses.
11 Priorities for AEC Minority Suppliers to Help Build Their Businesses
Women and minorities are profoundly underrepresented in the architecture, engineering, and construction industries. Focusing on the right priorities can help minority leaders build their businesses.
Doing Right in the Built Environment: Why ESG is No Longer Optional in AEC
The pandemic has increased the importance of ESG and the need for smart growth, diversity and sustainable building and construction management to serve all stakeholder interests.
Why We Need A 7-Point Plan to Combat Racism and Discrimination in the AEC Industry
Achieving diversity, equity and inclusion and eliminating racism in the architecture, engineering and construction is critical for the future; here’s a 7-Point Plan to reach this goal.
5 Ways COVID-19 Will Change Commercial Real Estate Design
As the pandemic wanes, lifestyle changes and new sustainability mandates will change commercial real estate design forever. Here’s what the AEC industry should know.
AEC industry MWBE McKissack & McKissack has a robust roster of significant Chicago projects, including the Obama Foundation, O’Hare International Airport, Navy Pier and more.
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Pandemic-Proof Schools: How Design Thinking Can Keep Students Safe
The smart school of the future must improve school health and safety with better indoor air and water quality, hybrid learning support and principles of design for learning.
Women are vastly underrepresented in architecture, engineering and construction. Achieving gender diversity starts with acknowledging the AEC industry’s breadth of sexism.
Changing Places: Reinventing Washington, D.C. With AEC
For 30 years, McKissack & McKissack has helped reinvent the landscape of Washington, D.C. with its work on historic landmarks, K-12 schools and public works.
Powering Communities: Building Next-Gen Infrastructure
Completing new electricity substation projects on time and on budget is a challenge when new power transmission lines must cross under highways and waterways.
Design Thinking Generates Community Support for Power Substations
The power grid is undergoing a historic transformation that is giving architects and planners greater freedom to create more striking and compact power substations.
Construction Management Helps Aviation Industry Chart New Course
As COVID-19 puts the brakes on travel, construction management firms in the aviation industry face changing priorities as they build airport cities. Planning is key to maximizing recovery.
McKissack Construction Management Protects K-12 Students & School Funds
As students go back to school under COVID-19, construction management in k-12 school projects plays a critical role in lowering the risk for students, teachers and families.
Reopening Offices Right: A COVID-19 Commercial Interior Design Playbook
Architects and commercial interior designers can help companies do thorough COVID-19 hazard assessments and give decision-makers workable options for returning to work.
Landmark Places Are Special Spaces. Here’s What Preserving Them Takes
Looking to the future keeps landmark construction on a historic path. McKissack’s landmark construction practice helps keeps public spaces true to the past and sustainable for the future.
3 Ways Airports Keep Expansion Plans Airborne Through COVID-19 Turbulence
Aviation program management and project controls are the nerve center of airport expansions. For two decades, McKissack’s aviation expertise has helped major U.S. airports get the job done on time and on budget.
McKissack Cares Pt. 3: Culture, a Circular Economy of Care & COVID 19
At AEC firm McKissack & McKissack, COVID 19 inspired an employee-first plan to weather the pandemic and build a stronger circular culture of care for the future.
McKissack Cares Pt. 2: Culture, a Circular Economy of Care & COVID 19
In response to COVID-19, AEC firm McKissack & McKissack embraced a circular economy of care that asks employees to be hungry, humble and smart to strengthen its corporate culture.
Building Communities Is Our Purpose. Floyd’s Death Is Our Challenge
McKissack’s purpose is to create spaces for communities to thrive. After George Floyd’s death that seems like a distant goal. But we need to own our role in this complex project.
McKissack Cares Pt. 1: Culture, a Circular Economy of Care & COVID 19
In our response to COVID-19, we’re becoming healthier, building resilience into our culture and caring for ourselves, each other, our clients, and our company.
In the AEC industry’s competitive job market, McKissack has found new ways to attract the best talent to join a unique organization with transformative projects.
Tech That Kept Us Ahead of COVID-19 Will Jumpstart Smarter AEC Practices
Technologies that sustained architecture, engineering and construction management during the coronavirus crisis will make the AEC industry faster and more efficient in a COVID-19 recovery.
COVID-19 will change the course of workplace design and spark new AEC industry innovation as McKissack’s architects and construction managers make jobsites more effective and resilient.
The current COVID-19 crisis has presented us with many challenges, but has also given us a chance to reflect and appreciate what we have in our lives: our families, our friends, our jobs, our communities.
How is COVID-19 Changing Design and Construction Management?
Despite the COVID-19 crisis, most construction projects are going forward. McKissack sees 5 immediate and significant changes that will shape the future of design and construction management.
Trust Matters More Than Ever—Even in the AEC Industry
Trust matters more than ever in a design and construction services industry dealing with crisis conditions; these 5 building blocks can foster teamwide trust.
