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Time to review
The home building industry is changing fast. Ian Cohen asks: are you keeping up?
I have spent years working alongside contractors, builders, and inspectors, and one truth has never changed: time is money. What has changed is how much time the industry is losing and how clearly the solution is right in front of us.
Home builders today are facing a perfect storm. Rising project demands are outpacing traditional workflows. Labor shortages make it harder than ever to keep projects on schedule. Meanwhile, the pressure to cut costs and deliver faster has never been greater. The contractors who will survive and thrive in this environment are the ones willing to embrace technology, not fight it.
The permit process is broken
Let me be direct about something most contractors already know but rarely say out loud: the traditional permit inspection process is one of the biggest drains on productivity in the home building industry.
Waiting days or weeks for an inspector to become available is the norm, not the exception. Contractors make multiple trips between job sites and building departments, burning fuel, time, and labor on tasks that should take hours. Manual paperwork errors trigger costly project delays that push timelines back by weeks. When labor
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