Bob Clark Beyond: Adventurer in Hope

Why There's More to the Pour with CSI

Clayco’s CSI team builds lasting structures with concrete expertise, innovation, and workforce training in Hazelwood, MO.

Cover of the book "Engineering in Plain Sight" by Grady Hillhouse, featuring a colorful illustrated landscape with bridges, tunnels, cranes, roads, and power plants representing various elements of the constructed environment.

Engineering in Plain Sight: A Book That Makes You See Things Differently

Engineering in Plain Sight by Grady Hillhouse is a visually engaging guide to the everyday infrastructure around us. This post explores how the book simplifies complex systems, inspires curiosity, and aligns with Clayco’s philosophy of making the invisible visible in the built environment.

Architectural rendering of the Humboldt Park Passive Living building in Chicago, featuring modern design, large windows, public plaza, ground-floor retail spaces, and community artwork on the facade.

Building More Than Walls in Humboldt Park

Humboldt Park Passive Living brings 60 affordable apartments, sustainable design, and community-focused spaces to Chicago’s West Side—built to Passive House standards for comfort, efficiency, and connection.

The Anatomy of a Job Site: How Preconstruction and Logistics Lay the Groundwork for Everything

When people imagine a construction site, they often see the visible: cranes lifting steel, workers in vests, machines pushing dirt. But long before any of that happens—and long after crews leave for the day—there’s a quiet force keeping it all together: preconstruction and logistics.

What Our Weekly Drone Reports Really Show

Each week, I get a report that quietly captures something pretty extraordinary: how far we’ve come in integrating drone technology into the construction process. It’s not just about flight logs or video counts, it’s about technology changing the building process.

“Leadership in crisis reveals true character — and few embody this more than Ukraine’s Mykhailo Fedorov.”

When Russia launched its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the world saw a nation stand up with extraordinary courage to defend its sovereignty and democracy. Among the many inspiring leaders of this moment, one who stands out to me is Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation.

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