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Constructed Futures

A weekly conversation about the future of our built environment, featuring outside experts and seasoned leaders in construction, architecture and more.
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Episodes

Ellen Crews: Specifications, Standards, and Built Asset Management at Woolpert

Ellen Crews has been at the center of specifications, data and the standards used to govern information in construction for many years. As a former board member of CSI and long tenured specifier, her perspective on how information is used and how facilities need to be managed is unique. In this conversation, Ellen shares some of the concerns about the data loss between construction and handover, and some of the specific reasons what is a 'good' decision for construction might set an asset up for...

Dec 23, 202130 minEp. 91

Hamzah Shanbari: Navigating and Investing in Construction Innovation at Dysruptek

Like many contractors, Haskell faced the need to innovate head on, and created an increasingly sophisticated approach to assessing, piloting, partnering and investing in construction technologies. Through their Dysruptek subsidiary, Haskell is able to play a number of roles in the innovation ecosystem. Hamzah Shanbari serves as the construction technologist for Dysruptek, bringing his experience in VDC together with investment and broader technology acumen.

Oct 28, 202131 minEp. 79

Todd Mustard: Leading Industrial Grade Innovation at TAUC

The Association of Union Constructors is 1,800+ contractors focused on building the power, industrial and other engineering-heavy buildings that help make our world. Todd Mustard and his team have worked to create a culture if innovation and knowledge sharing amongst TAUC members, culminating every year with their Industrial Grade Innovation show. Todd had some great ideas and observations about technology, and how its going to continue to impact how the world gets built.

Oct 25, 202131 minEp. 78

Yves Frinault: Connecting the Construction Field with Fieldwire

Fieldwire connects different members of the construction field painlessly - so painlessly that they've seen a large part of their early growth through organic word of mouth, something construction is not usually known for. Yves Frinault, CEO and Co-Founder walks through the benefits of immediate, seamless connectivity, and how Fieldwire makes it easier for everyone to just get the job done.

Oct 14, 202129 minEp. 75

Adrian Hatch and Tim Gollogly: Augmented Reality Jobsite Meetings with Imajion

What if you could have a rich, interactive jobsite meeting with just your mobile phones, tablets and laptops, without needing to leave the trailer, office, or even area of the jobsite? What if you could record those meetings for interactive, 3D playback later? Imajion does this and more, helping contractors, owners and architects meet much more regularly, painlessly, and document work and discussions along the way.

Oct 07, 202130 minEp. 74

Matt Daly: Revolutionizing Jobsite Documentation with StructionSite

Keeping up with work that has been done on the construction jobsite is a never ending struggle. Documenting work that has been completed takes time and has in the past been primarily manual. StructionSite have pioneered the use of scans and photos to automate site documentation, and in doing so have created an entirely new class of construction software. Matt Daly, CEO of StructionSite, shared their product, vision and some great perspective on where the jobsite of the future is going.

Oct 05, 202130 minEp. 73
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