Members of the WSIA Emerging Issues & Innovation Committee are tasked with keeping an eye on the future. The committee's mission — to identify, evaluate, discuss and provide useful tools that will enable WSIA members to better analyze, manage and underwrite emerging issues and trends — necessitates it.

This year, the committee's work has focused on developing webinars and leveraging WSIA's partnership with Georgia State University's WSIA Distinguished Chair, Hal Weston, to produce papers and reports that can be valuable resources to member firms encountering these emerging trends. A webinar focused on the construction environment is currently on the radar, and says Preferred Specialty, LLC, President and Emerging Issues Committee Chair Robert Sanders.