Only Girl On The Jobsite

You're a few weeks into a project. Things started well. And then the contractor goes quiet.

The texts take days to get a response. The updates get shorter. You show up for a site visit, and no one told you the schedule changed. And you start filling in that silence with stories; he's probably just busy, maybe...

I love talking to people who came up through this industry the hard way and then figured out something that makes all of our lives better.

Fiona Sanipelli is one of those people. She studied architecture, spent nearly 20 years in hospitality design, worked her way through some of the most celebrated firms in...

Most hard construction projects don't announce themselves as disasters. They arrive as a feeling. A low hum. A sense that something's slightly off and you can't quite name it yet.

And most of us push through it, manage around it, or work harder to compensate for it. Because that's what we do.

But in this...