Constructed Futures, A Quantum Rise Podcast

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At the end of every construction project, files, warranties, and other materials need to be handed over to the owner - a process that is often difficult, expensive and hard to do satisfactorily. In today's hyper competitive construction market, solid handovers can be a competitive advantage, and Buildr was designed to make that easy and efficient. Co-founder Caleb Taylor takes us through their process and the launch of their new CRM for new business at Buildr.

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Contracts are at the heart of construction projects, and often are the source of inefficiencies and ultimately litigation. Brian Perlberg, Executive Director and Senior Counsel of ConsensusDocs, walks us through how they're making better contracts, creating new contracts that empower innovations like BIM, Design-Build and more, and are formed from a huge coalition of contractors, technologists, trades and more.

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Fabrication of construction materials continues to evolve, becoming more and more efficient, accurate and effective. Pypeserver has developed their own proprietary file formats, processes and software to push the envelope and provide best in class fabrication. David shares his thoughts on fabrication, and introduces the idea of a 'well constructed point solution.'

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BIM is critical to most construction workflows - as expectations for quality BIM work continue to grow, companies like BIM Designs help owners and contractors to handle the work. Mark Oden shares how his team have built a world class, union-centric BIM detailing crew.

CSI has been the steward and producer of the MasterFormat, UniFormat and OmniClass standards for decades. CSI now makes these available digitally through an API. Rick takes us through the value of the API and its unique "crosswalking" functionality, as well as what it takes to make a truly world-class API.

Construction projects are full of repetitive, tedious, but necessary tasks, like filing daily reports, administering orientations, and so on. Nyfty.ai creates 'bots' that handle critical tasks like these, and leverages powerful natural language understanding to make interacting with these bots fast and easy. As more and more processes digitize, understanding how to automate these processes will be critical.

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Supply chain and Logistics are one of the more complex parts of any operation, and construction is especially complex. James Swanston applies critical lessons learned in a military career to the problems of logistics in construction, and gives us some ideas for where supply chain and logistics will evolve in the future.

More and more attention is being paid to preconstruction processes. Jeff Sample, head of communications at Join, explains that the key missing ingredient in many preconstruction processes is effective communication amongst different teams. Join was designed to provide the tools and platform to facilitate those communications.

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Sharing files easily, securely, instantly on a jobsite is not easy. Doing so with uneven WiFi can be even harder. Egnyte's Ronen Vengosh explains how they keep files secure, what it takes to help their clients with cybersecurity, and some of the cool file sharing features that Engyte offers.

At a time when there are a great deal of new technologies and products to help with the construction process, navigating this new landscape can be a challenge. Kaushal Diwan, and Henning Roedel share their lessons learned and approach to assessing, piloting and managing a portfolio of technologies across DPR.

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Scott Ellison has invested in a number of contech startups, and is actively involved in the space. We talked about his "respect/disrupt" ratio, and how some of the unique aspects of the construction industry affect technology adoption, startups and the future of the industry. A great set of perspectives for startups, investors and innovation teams.

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LS Black, a general contractor based in Minneapolis, has needed to be at the forefront of construction cybersecurity because of government contracts. Peyton Kringlie is one of the team members driving the development of sophisticated cybersecurity practices and policies throughout the company. Peyton shares some great lessons learned for other contractors starting a similar journey.

Why should owners care about digital twins? Actually lots of reasons, and Augmented Construction's Carl Ericson takes us through a number of them. From scope certainty, to future changes to really understanding what their building will look and feel like, digital twins offer a powerful set of benefits for owners. Learn more at: http://augmentedconstructioninc.com/

Revizto was made to open up BIM and VDC workflows for greater collaboration among the entire team, not just Revit users. Brett Settles brings his years of experience in VDC to our conversation to explain past and current issues, and how Revizto addresses them. Our conversation also covered the interesting idea of technology getting out ahead of management, and their need to understand what is being produced and used - Revizto helps with this issue as well.

Red Team started within a mid-tier construction company, and has grown over the years to address the distinct needs of this market segment. Frederic Guitton, Red Team's Chief Revenue Officer, shares his insights about Construction's mid-market, and how Red Team addresses those needs. Learn more at: https://www.redteam.com/

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 it easy for early users.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.