Building Resilience: Climate Change
Floods, water infrastructure and the electrical grid are all in need of attention, and the federal government is investing an additional $6 billion to support this resilience work. Extreme Weather Requires Attention Though there has…
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Capacity Building: Ports!
Remember all those images of ships lined up, waiting to enter ports and unload containers? Though that’s “yesterday’s news,” the infrastructure challenges to our supply chains did not magically disappear, which makes it great to…
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Estate Planning: Tis The Season
Winter, along with festivities, offers families time for quiet togetherness, which can be well used to make or update estate plans and communicate about them too. Though doing so may feel difficult, having the basics…
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Feeling Thankful–and Lucky?
Two real life stories underscore the importance of making plans for our assets before it’s too late. If we are lucky to have more money than we can spend in our lifetimes, our generosity can…
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Civil Works Keeping Builders Busy
In the Seattle region, huge private investments–think Microsoft and Amazon–were behind the previous construction boom. These days, building is still going strong but, as in much of the country, civic works are the primary driver…
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Once Upon A Time…
Marketing is about telling the story of what makes your company special, and while that seems obvious and straightforward enough, it’s actually easy to lose sight of your story while you are busy running the…
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Purpose Trusts?
Although it can be said that every type of trust has a purpose, in that it exists to accomplish the goals of the trustor who established it, not every trust is actually a purpose trust….
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Once Upon A Time…
Marketing is about telling the story of what makes your company special, and while that seems obvious and straightforward enough, it’s actually easy to lose sight of your story while you are busy running the…
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Getting The Desired Results: Efficiency!
Sure, every contractor wants to operate efficiently, but even with all the tech afloat, achieving efficiency remains elusive. It’s typical to find that just as we get one thing going well, another is off track….
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