The Construction Dorkcast

Woohooo it’s episode 60 of the Construction Dorkcast….we think. Continuing on our MEP Innovations wrap up theme, we welcome in two of our great friends Tauhira Ali and Sean McGuire to share their thoughts and insights from our favorite conference. We were down two Dorks but Trent and Jon did an okayish job of picking up the slack. We hope you enjoy. 

Here we are at episode 59 of the Construction DorkCast. In this episode we targeted data and data strategy, so we reached out to a past guest Amanda Harbison of ELECTRI and new guest Chris Ovens of Aedo.AI. Fair warning on this one – Nerd alert! Our guests get very geeky and nerdy in the best ways possible and talk to us about how to ask the right questions, where to get started, and how ConTechs should think about building out tech stacks with long term data strategery in mind. Enjoy! 

So, in this episode the dorks have just attended MEP Innovation. We had fun there all week and it ended with anti-keynote. That is, it ended with a giant workshop versus a single guy getting up there and talking at you, and it was wonderful. They walked us through different exercises, different arrangements that helped us understand lean principles. Small batch, how waste affects the job site and sort of did it in an entertaining and engaging way. So, when we talk about the anti-keynote we're talking about that experience and how much we enjoyed having it. 

It’s the end of the year and that means a DorkCast year end wrap-up. For episode 57 we went live and invited in our friends. We all shared our tech and event year in review as well as what we’re looking forward to in 2023. Thank all of you for listening, thank you for sharing, thank you for your support, thank you for a great year, thank you to those who joined us live. We are all looking forward to personally seeing all of you in the coming year. We hope you all enjoy the Holiday Season and that the New Year greets you well.

In this week's episode, the Dorks talked to Brad Hendricks and looked specifically at how ITM has begun to resurface as the preferred content style for those who fabricate.

We continue the theme of alternative pathways into and through construction in episode 55 of the DorkCast. We brought on Sasha Reed from Procore.org to talk about her professional journey. We originally were going to title the show “College Dropouts”, but in the same way our careers have pivoted Jeff decided to change the name to “The World is My Classroom” and it is truly fitting. Sasha is always a blast to talk to and drops dozens of knowledge bombs as she describes the steps she took through life to become Dork Royalty.

In episode 54 of the DorkCast, we sit down with Brett Stacks of Viatechnik to talk about Trade-ing Places. A theme we keep seeing in construction technologists is the varied paths we’ve all taken to get where we are. Brett is no exception. Starting off as a sheet metal worker, taking stops through contractors and software alike, and finding himself as a VDC Director. This was a fun discussion about the traits we see common among people who have found success in our industry and how many of us may have been lucky, but luck only gets you so far.

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.