Business View Magazine l October 2022

77 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 10 As well as Gallant Capital, Gillett also singles out Building Media Corporation as pivotal in helping Quality Built develop its training materials, especially its microburst course catalog. Quality Built offers services within four primary contexts, which coincide with why a builder would hire a third-party inspection firm. “One would be to provide inspections required for building codes to get the certificate of occupancy,” explains Gillet. “The second would be because of an insurance mandated requirement as part of a general liability policy that necessitates a quality assurance program. The third would be participation in a voluntary code accreditation program like the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program or the Energy Star program from the EPA, which both require third party inspections. Lastly would be if the builder selected to use a third-party inspector to augment their job site risk mitigation and enhance project optimization.” As part of project optimization, Quality Built enhances gross margin gains by helping trade contractors be more efficient by identifying gaps in their knowledge and filling those gaps with training so that they become better at what they do. “Traditionally, we trained at the job site, but we are rapidly moving towards digital training,” says Gillet. “Our ForeSite platform delivers a microburst training of two minutes or less paired with the unacceptable observation made immediately after an inspection that makes a negative observation.” Besides delivering real-time training, the ForeSite platform provides job site efficiency, productivity, safety, OSHA compliance, trades logistics, and materials safety, among others. ForeSite is available as a stand-alone commercial product that builders and other third-party inspection firms can use with their staff. As the construction industry evolves and adopts more techno-centric methods like factory-built QUAL I TY BUI LT and 3D printed structures and robotics, Quality Built expects its ForeSite platform to provide the data, management, and optimization tools needed to actualize this future. And this future will need to come sooner rather than later due to the mounting uncertainty in the construction industry occasioned by supply chain challenges and skilled labor shortages. “COVID magnified supply chain challenges that were previously negligible,” says Gillett. “On the labor side, significant boom and bust cycles in the construction industry have seen fewer people return to the industry after each cycle. That, coupled with a greying workforce