David Simkins has spent more than three decades engineering the climate control and moisture management systems that protect construction sites, food processing plants, hospitals, and managed properties. Today, he leads Engineering and Technology at Polygon as its Director. We sat down with him to talk about why water risk builds gradually instead of striking as a single event, what keeps monitoring technology from getting deployed once it’s on site, and how tighter schedules and materials like mass timber are raising the stakes on the job site.