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Small or midsized construction firms face increased competition and market challenges in the coming years as the industry specializes and consolidates.

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Credit: Getty Images DAVE WINNACKER stood on a hill in Northern California as flames devoured the houses below him. The Ala­meda County Fire Department division chief had fought wildfires before, but the 2017 North Bay Fires felt different. A sense of helplessness overcame him as he watched them burn. "I had engines assigned to them," he says. "But you couldnt stop it." A former Marine (and now a fire chief in the Bay Areas Moraga-Orinda Fire District), Winnacker was one of more than 10,000 fi...