Constructed Futures, An AI Edge Podcast

Larry Aoun is a project manager at Gilbane Building Company, where he'll oversee the process of bringing in customer requirements, turning those into logs, running the job then finally handing over the project to the owner. We discuss progress of digitizing this process. A fantastic view into how projects are run and what goes into making sure that requirements are communicated, managed and tracke...

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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 pro...

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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, tr...

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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...

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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/