Opinion piece published in Construction Dive by William Rocha, Vice President and head of Texas for F.H. Paschen.
Texas is growing at a pace few states can match. Since 2020, the state has added more than 2.5 million new residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, with large cities like Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston adding almost 100,000 new residents in each of the past five years.
With that population surge, elected officials are now driving one of the largest infrastructure expansions in the nation to meet the demand with more than $200 billion in planned and ongoing transportation and utility infrastructure improvements.
But as these project pipelines accelerate across Texas, a less visible challenge is emerging: the risk that in the need for speed, the temptation emerges to overlook quality…To read the full opinion piece, click here to visit Construction Dive.