Time Tells All: Shifting our Understanding of ROI

By Chad Clinehens, President and CEO, Zweig Group The Summer of 2024 is drawing to a close, and the stirrings of Autumn can be felt on the breeze and seen on the trees.  2024 has been another historic year, and the past few months of summer have been hotter than ever for the AEC industry.  […]

An experience focused on ROI

By Chad Clinehens, President & CEO, Zweig Group From The Zweig Letter These events offer firm leaders an opportunity to connect, learn, and celebrate  – this year with a focus on ROI. For the past decade, we have seen the AEC industry soar past previous financial metrics and benchmarks, and, keeping to this trend, the industry […]

Looking to the Sky: Drones and Rising Stars

By Chad Clinehens For the first time in the history of Civil+Structural Engineer Magazine, winners from Zweig Group’s Rising Stars Awards and the Engineering Drone Video of the Year competition will share the same issue.  Obvious connections between the sky, drones, etc. aside, I think there is a useful analogy that can be drawn between […]

Pride and Practice: Elevating the AEC Industry

By Chad Clinehens In 1999 I was nearing graduation.  While I was searching for where I would start my first full-time job in the AEC industry (as an engineering intern), I traveled to Little Rock, Arkansas to interview for an opportunity to work with the transportation team of an Arkansas-based engineering firm.  I didn’t know […]

An Evolving Landscape

By Chad Clinehens, PE, President & CEO, Zweig Group From The Zweig Letter What it means to be an entrepreneur and run a smaller AEC firm in today’s competitive environment. Ask any leader of a smaller AEC firm about the challenges they face in today’s climate and you’ll likely get an earful. From recruiting and […]