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Business runs on people, and people do not leave their real lives at the door. We’re joined by Cayley Van Hemman, Business Manager at Turner Construction in Vancouver, to talk about what work-life integration actually looks like in a high-accountability construction leadership role and why mentorship only works when we bring the whole context, not just the job title.

Cayley walks us through her path from civil engineering co-op student to intern at a seven-person startup-like Vancouver office, then through a career built on deliberate range: superintendent experience, project management, finance, business development, and operational leadership. We talk about returning from maternity leave straight into a new role, managing the nerves that come with bigger scope, and what a business manager really does when every day brings different “fires,” strategic decisions, and client needs.

We also zoom out to the BC construction industry and Vancouver construction market: the whiplash from post-COVID indecision to a red-hot market, then uncertainty tied to tariffs, residential slowdown, and public projects being repaced. Along the way we get candid about developer perceptions, public versus private delivery speed, and the fine line between moving fast and bringing in the right stakeholders. We close with what’s next for builders, including IPD and progressive design-build, plus where AI in construction and better data can remove friction in processes like RFIs.

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