Truax is currently the James T. White Endowed chair, department head, and a professor in Mississippi State University’s (MSU) department of civil and environmental engineering.
In an environment of scarcity, the pace of business from procurement through implementation will accelerate. Fast-track delivery models like design-build will become more common, and as resources will need to be shared, so too will cross-discipline and cross-industry collaboration increase.
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The introduction of new technologies, the advancement of equipment, changing skill requirements, increasing demand for more innovative projects, and shorter time frames mean that things are changing and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
“More money must be injected into the program to maintain its capacity so America’s businesses can get the funds they need during this unprecedented crisis,” said Linda Bauer Darr, president and CEO, ACEC.