The Construction Dorkcast

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!

Hole. Eee. Shite. This was a fun one. Sitting down with this year’s DOTY, Bri Willams and the man who helped create the award, Nathan Wood. We had to get through this one down two Dorks, but I think Jeff and I did an okayerish job. We got some extra help from a surprise guest… this is what we call a tease in the biz. This episode is full of passion and knowledge bombs and fun as we talk about the movement, the award, and the CPC’s recent event. Hold on to your butts!

Welcome to Episode 42 of the DorkCast, Putting the Industrial in Industrialized Construction with Bob Snyder of Binksy and Snyder/Conivate. Bob is one of our favorites in the industry for the way he not only speaks on change but then he also turns around and rearranges his own company OR creates a new company to implement the change. His passion for the industry is palpable and his desire to make everyone better earned him the title of “The Elon Musk of MEP” in this episode. We hope you get as fired up listening to Bob as we do. As always thanks again for listening!

Here we go again, same old schtuff again…. Episode 41, MEP Innovations, that was legit! We sit down with Stacy Zerr, the Supreme Ruler of the MCAA Technology Committee to talk about the MEP Innovations Conference. What we liked, what we didn’t, what we’d like to see in the future. The Dorks hit the field down a player, but we feel Stacy did a great job keeping us on our game with another fun and interesting conversation. Had a few shoutouts to our friends and some hecklers in the chat along the way. Man, I love doing this podcast. Thanks for listening!