Peter Beck recently walked one of his firm's jobsites and asked a veteran project engineer what the job would have been like 10 years ago. The engineer said it probably would have needed three project engineers instead of one and the work wouldn't have been as accurate, among other things.
"He took me through all the innovations that have evolved over the last 10 years, in the field and in the office," says Beck, executive chairman and managing director of The Beck Group, Dallas. "It's quite extraordinary."