Engineering 'Lightning Poll' Results, with ACEC's Daphne Bryant

*NEW PODCAST* The ACEC Research Institute's executive director walks us through some encouraging recent data from the American Council of Engineering Companies.
July 1, 2025

This month, HPAC On The Air welcomes Daphne Bryant, executive director of the ACEC Research Institute, a five-year-old affiliate of the American Council of Engineering Companies. ACEC represents nearly 6,000 firms employing more than 600,000 engineers, architects, and other licensed professionals. 

The Research Institute has been particularly active this year, releasing three new reports, each based on responses from more than 500 engineers: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Engineering Industry; Progressive Design-Build: Practice, Perception, and Potential, Phase 1; and the latest Business Climate Lightning Poll.

Bryant discusses all three reports here and even offers HPAC On The Air listeners a chance to participate in the next phase of the ongoing Progressive Design-Build study, still being conducted by the University of Colorado. Just click on the QR Code below the podcast...

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About the Author

Rob McManamy

Editor in Chief

An industry reporter and editor since 1987, McManamy joined HPAC Engineering in September 2017, after three years with BuiltWorlds.com, a Chicago-based media startup focused on tech innovation in the built environment. He has been covering design and construction issues for more than 30 years, having started at Engineering News-Record (ENR) in New York, before becoming its Midwest Bureau Chief in 1990. In 1998, McManamy was named Editor-in-Chief of Design-Build magazine, where he served for four years. He subsequently worked as an editor and freelance writer for Building Design + Construction and Public Works magazines.

A native of Bronx, NY, he is a graduate of both the University of Virginia, and The John Marshall Law School in Chicago.

Contact him at [email protected].

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