A seven-hour drive up California's spine is long enough to remember what most of construction forgets. Projects do not only test budgets and schedules. They test relationships. They expose ego. They reveal whether a team can disagree without leaving the call angry.
David Renard was talking from the road between Los Angeles and San Francisco when he described what his firm, RPM, actually does. Architecture and engineering, yes. Program management, often. But the word he reaches for is simpler and more telling: fixers.
