Thriving in Construction with Patricia Bonilla

Our guest in this episode, Ms. Alexa Stone, President, and CEO of ecoPreserve, emphasizes the importance of long-term relationships in achieving success. Her company, ecoPreserve, focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions through sustainable building practices.

Alexa explains that sustainability and resiliency are closely related, focusing on using resources in a way that can be sustained over time, and resiliency refers to the ability to respond to climate events...

Francisco Vargas is a professional accountant and educator with 28 years of experience. He believes that teachers have the potential to empower or disempower a student and that the role of the school is to teach students skills and values. However, he also notes that primary education should come from the home. Vargas discussed the limitations on teachers from the government, which hinders the ability of teachers to handle some student behavior in class...

What if you ended up working for a career you dreaded before because you were unsure if you could handle challenges? Would you walk away, or would you embrace your fear?

In this episode, our special guest, Ms. Gloria Samuel, Senior Vice President and Director of Construction Programs and Project Management for Fifth Third Bank, has felt intimidated by the idea of a career in engineering...

We're all about creating opportunities for everyone.

Sure, you probably think we mean the people are already doing it. You know, the folks already getting the jobs and opportunities that lead to success and community involvement. And you're right: those people deserve their fair chance!

But we also think that everybody benefits when more people get opportunities in a diverse community...

The first thing, and perhaps the most important one, a construction company must do to survive is to understand the people they are working for. According to Charles Nielson, President of Nielson, Hoover & Company, the same principle applies to private and public roles...

As a leader, you should live and breathe the core values of who you are. Remember, who you are is what your company is. And would you believe if I said that what shows up in your personal life as a hobby also shows up in your business?

Just like Ms. Ursula Iafrate, Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Freaking Awesome Engineers Consulting, a mechanical, electrical, and plumbing service company with extensive experience in planning and designing building systems...

We all know the importance of education; aside from supporting the growth of civil society, political stability, and democracy, it significantly contributes to reducing poverty. Education indeed increases the rate of return on the economy.

Like our guest, Dr. Jose Faria, in Episode 02 of Season 04 of Thriving in Construction, The Podcast. As the Moss Endowed Chair of the Department of Construction Management at Florida International University, he finds academia very fulfilling...

Season 04 is coming! And for the past seasons here in Thriving in Construction, The Podcast, we’ve seen and heard many guests sharing their journey toward the construction industry.

If you have noticed, they came from different fields of construction. Some were business owners, and others were accountants, superintendents, managers, co-founders, and even ordinary employees...

In the first part of our Episode 10 of Season 03 here in Thriving in Construction, The Podcast, we talked about the struggles, fears, failures, and successes of our guest couple, Grace and Naeem Uddin.

Despite their seemingly odd relationship – Grace is a Columbian while Naeem is a Pakistani – and countless physical, mental, and emotional challenges, the couple successfully achieved their goals...

We’ve already heard many stories of a woman or a man who succeeds in doing construction industry business. But what about a couple? A husband-and-wife tandem? We rarely hear stories of their struggles, fears, failures, and successes...