Happy New Year! We hope you enjoyed a joyful holiday season. During our quick publishing break, we were able to reflect on this past year’s successes and opportunities in regard to our blog. This week, we’re happy to bring you a roundup of our top five blog posts of 2022 that cover a variety of topics, such as artificial intelligence (AI), Gilbane’s Public Private Partnership (P3) Group successes, and career growth opportunities.
Here are our top 5 most read blogs of 2022 and a short summary of each:
- Five Reasons to be Excited about Gilbane’s Outlook — Gilbane Building Company’s president and chief executive officer Tom Laird kicked off 2022 with five reasons to be excited about the year ahead, which turned out to be very accurate: providing additional growth opportunities for employees, promoting an innovative culture, and committing to more social and sustainable impacts. Stay tuned for an outlook for 2023 coming soon!
- The Impact of AI and Automation in Construction —While the term “automation in construction” may lead to thoughts surrounding job loss or workers being replaced by robotics, the reality is a lot more complex than that. The truth is, when automation is approached properly and with innovation in mind, it has an overwhelmingly positive effect on the way we operate as a company. The opportunity of AI in construction is to put our people’s capacity to their best and most productive use.
- Growing with Gilbane: Intern to Project Engineer — In August, we celebrated National Intern Day and recognized our summer interns currently working alongside our teams across the company. We sat down with Mariella Ochoa, who began as an intern and is now a project engineer in Chicago, IL, to hear about her path to Gilbane, which took her from Venezuela to Illinois, and her experience growing with the company.
- Public-Private Partnerships Perspective — Working with a growing number of public partners across the country, Gilbane is expanding its social infrastructure portfolio and delivering state-of-the-art, dynamic facilities that make impactful contributions within the communities we serve.
- Idea Hack Harvests New Carbon Reduction Strategies — Gilbane’s ESG strategy sets forth a goal of the company becoming carbon neutral by 2040. Reaching this goal will require new initiatives, fresh ideas, and dynamic engagement with our employees, suppliers, clients, and partners. This Gilbane Ink blog discusses how Gilbane uses design thinking and Lean principles to harvest creative approaches to reduce carbon and bolster engagement in our ESG platform.
We look forward to another year of bringing you insights, news and knowledge straight from our subject matter experts at Gilbane! Thank you for being a loyal Gilbane Ink subscriber.
