In this special episode of the Dorks, we sit down with Mike Zivanovic on the last day of Autodesk University to talk tech from the exhibit hall.

Look at us keeping kind of a regular schedule! Here is DorkCast Episode 52 where we welcome in our friend Kyle Johnson of Avvir. Kyle, in our opinion, is one of those unsung Dorks. We see him around the circuit fighting the Dork fight and thought it was time to bring him in and sit down for a talk. Kyle gets passionate about reality capture and proptech, whatever that means. Hope you enjoy the conversation!

Welcome back to DorkDom! We’re back after a short summer hiatus. The four of us sat down and got reunited and it felt so good. We talk about our summers. We talk about custom home construction versus commercial construction. Hint: we all suffer from the same problems. We talk about the kickoff of conference season. We talk about the future. We hope you’ve missed us as much as we’ve missed you. Look for us to get back to our semi-regular-ish schedule and seeing us on the circuit.

We made it! Episode 50!!! And there was much rejoicing! Yaaaaayyyyy. And to celebrate making it 50 episodes we brought in Sara Curry from JE Dunn to talk about one of our favorite topics, Prefab. Sara has a brand-new role that she is stepping into. Not just brand-new to her, but to her company and the industry. This is a fun conversation about how different GCs and CMs are thinking about taking on this push for prefab by building partnerships and this totally new concept of knowledge sharing. May have discovered a new CPC member in this one, Nathan! Enjoy!

Dear listeners, it is time to bow to our robot overlords. Here we are at Episode 49, I’m not sentient, YOU’RE sentient. We are joined by Melvin Newman from PataBid and we talk all things AI and ML, as well as estimating and the shared pains we all have around construction drawings, documentation, and processes. This one was really a treat. We were down two Dorks this time but were lucky to have Melvin who is so passionate it was fun to just tee him up and watch him go. We hope you enjoy this one as much as we did. Special show note, we (and I mean Jon) went full dork preshow with Melvin so I included that at the end instead of our normal silly outtakes.

DorkCast Episode 48 – Construction Tech’s Gone Plaid! In this episode we bring back an old friend Jake Olsen, formerly of DADO and now the VP of Construction Technology at Stanely X, and his new boss, Michelle Bockman, President of Stanley X. We dig into Michelle’s background in manufacturing and what it’s like herding cats like Jake in her new role managing innovators. We had an absolute blast with them both and learned a lot about the pains of scaling, innovating, and how maybe we aren’t as snowflakey as we think we are. Thanks for listening!

DorkCast 47 is all about content and for that we brought in our first international guest, The Godfather of Content, Andy Robbins. Nerd alert on this one. We talk about APIs and C++ classes. We also discuss the differences between RFAs and ITMs and why some of you might want to consider getting on the ITM train. There’s also some talk about why partners would want to work with specialty trades that are strong with their content. Sit back and enjoy this Dorkfest!

Episode 46 of the Construction DorkCast. There isn’t much to say here. We gathered to celebrate the life of Buck Davis. This was a very hard episode to do, but we still had some laughs remembering the love and passion Buck brought to the industry. Buck, you’re very much missed. This episode is titled Make Friends and Help People in your honor.

If you’ve followed the podcast this far or you have been involved with it, you know we’re not ones for plans and scripts. Sometimes, though, a guest has the audacity to ask us ahead of time what we want to talk about. That’s what Taylor Cupp did to us and why Episode 45 is called Going Off Script. I think we mostly talked about the bullets we gave him, but I already lost the napkin we wrote them down on. Enjoy!

DorkCast 44 – BIM is Reality! In this episode we are down two Dorks again, but we bring in three guests, Chad Lucks from US Engineering, Rob Miller from Faro, and Gabe Munes from OpenSpaceAI to talk about reality capture. We cover current uses, where they see the future going, and why construction is so broken. We have some laughs as always and get some good insights on how we should be using different types of reality capture. You should all be doing it!