Benny Baltrotsky has been in leadership roles across the construction technology ecosystem, from the Construction Progress Coalition to eSub, and now MSUITE. We discuss the evolution of MSUITE and its role in the continued development of offsite and prefabrication processes. MSUITE provides a fantastic case study for construction technology companies, as it has found a balance of customer-led and internally generated innovation, and between configurability and "out of the box" settings that make...
May 20, 2021•31 min•Ep. 41
eVolve MEP grew from a desire to give powerful BIM detailing tools to the trades, and has grown into a set of products that 'turn days into hours' in terms of workflow. Clay Smith, CEO of eVolve, describes their journey, how they're working to create ever better products, and some ideas for the future of MEP supply chains.
May 18, 2021•29 min•Ep. 40
MCAA has been a leader in thinking about technology, training and work process of trades in construction. At their recent MEP Innovation conference, mechanical, pipefitting, electrical, sheet metal trades all collaborated to recognize commonalities and think through new approaches. Sean shares some of the findings from this process and others.
May 13, 2021•30 min•Ep. 39
Travis Voss is leader of innovative technology at Helm mechanical, where he's overseen implementation of a range of technologies. We discuss the realities of getting technology to work for project teams, manage a full technology stack, and think about data strategy.
May 11, 2021•29 min•Ep. 38
For years, Jon Chesser has been a leader in the use of RFID and other tagging technologies to add unprecedented data to supply chain planning and analytics. Through Jovix, Jon and his team are able to change everything from labor to scheduling to payment through the addition of detailed, up-to-the-minute status of materials from fabrication through shipping to location on laydown yards and more. A fascinating picture of how construction supply chains can evolve.
May 10, 2021•28 min•Ep. 37
Jeff Houtz has spent decades in the construction supply chain, and has seen it evolve from simple purchasing to more a strategic function. Jeff explains the complexities of balancing total cost with simple price, but also how data can truly change how we think of supply chains in construction.
May 09, 2021•30 min•Ep. 36
Industrialized, or offsite construction, is emerging as a powerful new approach to solving some of constructions biggest problems, from safety, to labor, to productivity, to cost & schedule overruns. Vikas Murali takes us through how Offsight provides crucial visibility into the offsight production process and marries it to the field.
May 04, 2021•30 min•Ep. 35
Understanding jobsite progress is time consuming, inaccurate and expensive. Constru AI are using advanced computer vision techniques from autonomous vehicles and other sectors to revolutionize how we collect jobsite data, how it is analyzed, and how it changes engineering and management workflows. Michael Sasson, Constru CEO, explains all of this and where it is going next.
May 03, 2021•28 min•Ep. 34
How should contractors approach data strategy? How can they make the most of past and future data generated in construction operations? Roz Buick, Construction SVP at Oracle, shares her perspectives on where to start, and where data can take the industry next.
Apr 29, 2021•30 min•Ep. 33
Every jobsite has new subcontractors, short term laborers and other team members onboarding constantly. How can general contractors ensure that new workers have the safety training they need, and are in compliance? John Noughton and I discuss the issues and solutions.
Apr 27, 2021•33 min•Ep. 32
Bruce Orr, Founder and Chief Data Scientist of ProNovos, shares his experience creating value with construction data, joined by ProNovos client and partner Wick Zimmerman of Outside the Lines, a Design-Build contractor.
Apr 26, 2021•36 min•Ep. 31
For over a decade, Nathan Wood has been a leading thinker in the construction world, driving the conversation around data connectivity, lean processes and more. Join us for a look at the state of integration and how its being moved forward.
Apr 22, 2021•30 min•Ep. 30
David Bowcott and Donais Deetz talk about AON insurance's Technology Assessment Panel, and the insights this and other efforts provide about how construction technology impacts risk, control of risk and the future of project delivery.
Apr 19, 2021•33 min•Ep. 29
Josh Levy spent years as a lawyer with, and for, top construction companies. He and his team discovered that the same issues come up and over, so they created a ground breaking software to help contractors navigate the key clauses in contracts - in the process better understanding and potentially reducing their risks.
Mar 29, 2021•32 min•Ep. 28
Gregg Wallace is an investing principal at Building Ventures, a built environment-focused Venture Capital firm that grows from over 20 years of ConTech experience. Gregg shared insights into how startups can be founded much faster than in the past, what it takes to attract investment, and where the industry might be headed.
Mar 25, 2021•34 min•Ep. 27
Versatile provides a unique blend of sensors and analytics that give contractors a much more comprehensive awareness of their jobsite and all the activities going on at a granular level. By re-thinking the problem of how to really see everything that is going on, Versatile have created a crane-based system that literally overlooks the jobsite.
Mar 22, 2021•30 min•Ep. 26
Jonathan Marsh is an accomplished technologist focused on MEP projects through his company, Steel Toe Consulting. Through many years and projects, he's developed an understanding of MEP work processes - and here he asks why we are still only partially using BIM as the core of these and other construction processes.
Mar 18, 2021•30 min•Ep. 25
Kelly Doyle has been deep into construction technology for years, and brings his perspective on how systems connect, how data flows across systems and how to unify it all for a project.
Mar 16, 2021•32 min•Ep. 24
Josh Bone, Executive Director of Electri, the research and education organization for the electrical contracting industry, has a unique perspective on the present and future of the trades. Join us as Josh lays out some of the opportunities both for the trades to evolve their expertise, and for construction overall to benefit from that evolution.
Mar 15, 2021•32 min•Ep. 23
DADO has been developing software that connects workers on the jobsite to the information they need, right when they need it. DADO has evolved into an amazing AI Voice powered tool that combines a deep knowledge of actual construction processes, with powerful search and natural language processing to ensure that folks on the jobsite have what they need, when they need it.
Mar 11, 2021•31 min•Ep. 22
Albert Bou Fadel is CEO and founder of Smart Barrel, a hardware & software platform that helps companies manage jobsite manpower. Albert and his team have found innovative ways to blend tough, 'low tech' solutions that work anywhere, with sophisticated cloud services that are just getting started. It's a refreshing to hear innovation stories that don't start with an acronym.
Mar 08, 2021•29 min•Ep. 21
We hear about industrialized construction, but what's really going on? Ray and Charlie are completing real projects, seeing the benefits and dealing with the complexities that comes with industrialized construction. Join us for a fascinating episode!
Mar 04, 2021•34 min•Ep. 20
How does innovation happen? How do startups work in the construction industry? How do big companies stay nimble and innovate like startups? Justin Saeheng, Director of Construction Technology at Stanley X, talks about these topics and more.
Mar 01, 2021•31 min•Ep. 19
David Noble is Director of the Werth Institute at University of Connecticut and an innovator both as an entrepreneur, and entrepreneurship educator. Join us for a discussion about starting up a company, product innovation and what matters in building a construction technology product.
Feb 25, 2021•30 min•Ep. 18
Procore has lead the construction software field with their integrations strategy, centered around the Procore Marketplace. Kris Lengieza is at the center of that development, and shares with us their experiences and some of the benefits of that level of integration.
Feb 18, 2021•33 min•Ep. 17
Note since airing: The committee Stephan brought together over the past 9 months has worked to put together an initial draft for 3D Construction Printing Standards, kicked off it's first official meeting on Thursday March 25th as ISO/TC 261/JG 80 "Joint ISO/TC 261-ASTM F 42 Group: Quality requirements for additive manufacturing in building & construction (structural and infrastructure elements)" These standards will enable commercial and scalable adoption of 3D Construction Printing as an in...
Feb 15, 2021•29 min•Ep. 16
Anil Sawhney, Global Program Lead for Construction at the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), joins me to talk about the role of standards, what RICS is, and the value of quantity surveying as a practice.
Feb 11, 2021•30 min•Ep. 15
Henry Lederman, founder of Qnect, has been driving innovation in the structural steel sector for decades. Learn about how changes in structural steel fabrication quality have made it possible to much more accurately design the connections that make our buildings stand and stay standing.
Feb 08, 2021•30 min•Ep. 14
Salla Eckhardt, Director of Transformation Services at Microsoft, joins the podcast to talk through the need for a digital building lifecycle, and progress she is seeing toward that goal. Salla is an amazing thinker and shared a deep understanding of digital transformation.
Feb 04, 2021•31 min•Ep. 13
Aarni Heiskanen is the founder of AEC-Business.com, and a leading thinker in AEC technology. Aarni talked with me about the need to develop much clearer, useful and accessible tools for awareness of what's going on at the construction job site.
Feb 01, 2021•31 min•Ep. 12
