We stop at restaurants that race food to and from tables to increase turnover rates. Once home, we plug in to keep working or watching sound byte news shows with ads frantically trying to get our attention. In the meantime, dirt is still moved by bulldozers and shovels. Concrete forming is still largely a hand-labor business. Construction drawings still contain the same errors they did when hand drawn.
Roofs still leak.
Subcontractors go belly-up. Attorneys file suits. And my local CSI chapter still meets for dinner on the third Monday of the month. As the construction industry and its needs are changing, much of what we do remains the same, and some of our greatest needs remain as they have been for a long time. When we look at our association programs and what they should do, we should not be so enamored with life's frantic pace and what associations do to accommodate it that we miss some of the basic needs of our industry.