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🎯 This Week’s Strategy:

• Construction Blockchain Applications

🛠️ Boardroom Brief:

• Queen Creek proposes 113% jump in builders’ wastewater capacity fees
  

Strategy

🎯 Construction Blockchain Applications

The construction industry has always faced challenges around project delays, contract disputes, and lack of transparency. Blockchain technology offers a game changing solution by introducing secure, tamper-proof digital records for contracts, transactions, and project milestones. This creates an immutable “single source of truth” that increases accountability, reduces fraud, and improves trust between all stakeholders.

For builders and developers, blockchain can streamline payment processes, ensure contract compliance, and even enhance supply chain tracking. By adopting blockchain-based tools, you can bring more efficiency and trust to your projects, two qualities that are increasingly vital in today’s competitive construction environment.

How to implement blockchain in your projects

✅ Start with Smart Contracts
Use blockchain-based smart contracts to automate payments when specific milestones are completed. This reduces disputes and ensures faster, more transparent payments between owners, contractors, and subcontractors.

✅ Enhance Supply Chain Tracking
Adopt blockchain platforms to track materials from manufacturer to job site. This ensures quality, reduces risk of counterfeit products, and gives you full visibility over delivery timelines.

✅ Secure Project Data
Store design documents, permits, and compliance records on a blockchain ledger. This guarantees data integrity and makes audits or regulatory checks much faster.

✅ Pilot with One Use Case
Rather than overhauling entire workflows, start by applying blockchain to one pain point (e.g., payments, contracts, or material tracking). Once proven effective, expand to other processes.

✅ Choose the Right Partners
Work with technology providers or construction fintech startups that specialize in blockchain for the built environment. Their expertise will accelerate implementation and ensure compliance.

Why it matters

The construction sector loses billions annually due to delays, disputes, and inefficiencies. Blockchain helps eliminate these pain points by ensuring transparency, trust, and automation across every phase of a project.

By integrating blockchain applications, builders and developers can:

• Accelerate cash flow with automated payments

• Reduce costly legal disputes

• Improve material sourcing integrity

• Strengthen stakeholder trust

Now is the time to explore blockchain adoption in construction the future of building isn’t just smarter and faster, it’s also more transparent and secure.

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Boardroom Brief

Queen Creek proposes 113% jump in builders’ wastewater capacity fees

Queen Creek is moving to more than double its wastewater capacity fee for new homes and apartments from $2,901 to $6,144 per unit, with a 60-day notice slated at the Oct. 1, 2025 council meeting, a public hearing set for Dec. 3, and potential implementation on Jan. 5, 2026, if approved. The town says the increase would help fund $73.2M of growth-related wastewater infrastructure over the next decade (part of $138.2M in projected needs), driven largely by an expansion of the treatment plant as the current facility has reached capacity; the remaining ~27% would come from the Wastewater Operating Fund. For developers, this represents a material shift of growth costs onto new projects and could impact pro formas and lot pricing across upcoming subdivisions; notably, Mesa is advancing its own capacity-fee process on a similar timeline, signaling a wider regional trend that builders should model for in 2026 budgets.

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