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2026 BX Membership Directory mailed

Watch for your 2026 BX Membership Directory!

With more than 4,000 member listings of industry products and services, the BX Directory has been mailed to nearly 2,300 local area architects, engineers, government agencies and industry buyers throughout central Ohio.

Make sure to include the next BX Directory in your marketing budget!

Take time to recognize a deserving industry leader

Do you know someone who exemplifies long-term, outstanding service and commitment to the local construction industry and the community? Nominate them for the 2026 BX Cornerstone Award!

2026 CORNERSTONE NOMINATION
Deadline: Friday, Jan. 23

This award is one of the most prestigious awards given in the central Ohio construction industry. Since 1954, when the BX and its members honored Ralph H. Anderson (Anderson Concrete Corp.), one individual has risen to the top each year and been named the BX Cornerstone Award winner.

Eligible nominees will be evaluated by the BX Cornerstone Review Committee on the following criteria:

• BX involvement
• Community and industry involvement
• Industry impact
• Years of service to the industry
• Professionalism and ethics

After the selections committee narrows the nominee list, the Cornerstone Award winner will be confirmed by the BX board of directors and honored at the BX Annual Meeting in November.

Help the Builders Exchange honor those individuals who deserve recognition and nominate someone today. Nominations for the 2026 award will be accepted until Friday, Jan. 23.

For more information on nominating someone for this prestigious award, contact Pam Austin.

Past BX Cornerstone Award Recipients:
Recipient and company names reflect status at the time of the award presentation.

Are You Building Effective Schedules?

Prepare your team to build and maintain efficient schedules that work well for everyone. Register for Scheduling 101 and learn to solve one of the biggest challenges facing project leaders today – creating an effective schedule.

Open to anyone interested in learning about project scheduling, this course will be most beneficial for project engineers, administrators, managers and superintendents.  

Course topics and scheduling methods to be discussed include:

• Evolution of planning and scheduling
• Bar chart principles and practices
• Work breakdown structure
• Critical Path Method (CPM)
• Arrow Diagram Method (ADM)
• Precedence Diagram Method (PDM)
• Program Evaluation & Review Technique (PERT)
• Using the schedule as a tool

For more information about this course, contact Kelly Stover.

Master the Basics of Blueprint Reading

Blueprint reading is a fundamental skill crucial to the industry, and it's important that your entire staff understand the basics. During Construction Drawings 101, industry veterans will share their knowledge of reading and understanding blueprints through lecture and interactive work with commercial drawings—providing attendees with the basic skills needed for interpretation of construction plans.

This course is ideal for office personnel, field employees, new hires or anyone who is looking to learn and refine their blueprint reading skills.

Upon completion of this class, attendees will:

• Have a basic knowledge of reading plans and specifications
• Understand general terms in the design process 
• Know where to find information in a set of plans 
• Further understand how trades work together 

For more information about this course, contact Kelly Stover.

Meet BWC Requirements & Build Substance-Free Jobsites

Substance Use Prevention and Recovery (SUPR), formerly known as the Drug-Free Safety Program (DFSP), is the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) voluntary safety program developed to address workplace use and misuse of alcohol and other drugs. 

The Builders Exchange of Central Ohio is a BWC-approved provider of SUPR employee education and supervisor training sessions, and these courses meet the annual training requirements.

The employee education course builds understanding of the written SUPR policy and explains the safety, security and health risks—as well as productivity impacts—associated with alcohol and drug use in the workplace. Supervisor training focuses on detecting, confronting, documenting and referrals for potential drug use or abuse.

Ensure your entire team understands their part in keeping your jobsites substance-free.

For more information about BX SUPR training or to schedule a company-specific class, contact Sean Cooper.

Smart Tech, Real Risk: AI’s Impact on Construction Contracts

Join the BX Law & Finance Group for an interactive Q&A session exploring the growing intersection of AI and Construction Law—a topic quickly gaining relevance across the industry. This session will feature a brief live demonstration showing how AI tools like ChatGPT can review select publicly available construction prime contracts. Attendees will see firsthand what AI does well, where its limitations exist and what those insights mean for contract evaluation moving forward.

The discussion will also dive into how emerging technologies are influencing construction contracts, risk management and legal compliance. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions, share perspectives and gain practical insight into how AI may support (but not replace) legal and project decision-making in the construction industry.

For more information about this presentation or the BX Law & Finance Group, contact Kelly Stover.

Member News: Columbus Forestry Permitting to Change

The City of Columbus is changing Forestry’s permitting system in 2026. Any work on or in the Critical Root Zone (CRZ) of a public tree requires a Forestry permit. There is no application fee for the permit, but it is required before work begins. CLICK HERE for the official notice.

A ‘public tree’ is any tree located on property owned by the City of Columbus, which includes parks, right-of-way and other City-owned land. Companies and individuals applying for a Forestry permit can access the City’s permit portal to create a profile which can be found here: https://portal.columbus.gov/Permits/Default.aspx.

For questions, or to request virtual or in-person training, contact the department at Forestry@columbus.gov.

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