The Art of Construction

Kelly Cone, Chief Strategy Officer at ClearEdge3D, joins us for episode 271 of Art of Construction and the third episode of our series recorded live at Digital Built Week Americas 2022. Tired of all those buzzwords and the marketing hype surrounding them? Waiting until you see something actually usable come from them before you care? So are we. And while there are a lot of real life use cases in c...

Katrin Klingenberg, Co-Founder & Executive Director of PHIUS (Passive House Institute US), and Isaac Elnecave, Project Certifier & Policy Analyst at PHIUS, join us for episode 270 of Art of Construction. Katrin Klingenberg is a visionary who has driven adoption of the Phius Standard throughout the past 20 years. Passive building methodology originated in the United States and Canada in the...

Marc Goldman, Director of AEC Industry Solutions at Esri, joins us for episode 269 of Art of Construction and the second episode of our series recorded live at Digital Built Week Americas 2022. Esri is a GIS (Geographic Information System) platform provider. They bill their GIS mapping software as the most powerful mapping & spatial analytics technology available. Their tagline, which we love,...

Marc Visent, Co-Founder & CEO of Knowify, joins us for episode 268 of Art of Construction. "I have no idea how much money I make per project."   "WHAT!!?!?!" It was when Marc Visent first heard these words from a contractor that his vision for Knowify became crystal clear. Combining the best of CRM, project management and invoicing software, Knowify is an all-in-one tool to manage your company...

Ellen Bensky, Principal, CEO, and CFO at Turner Fleischer Architects, joins us for episode 267 of Art of Construction and the first episode of our series recorded live At Digital Built Week Americas 2022. Ellen and many of her Turner Fleischer team members were at Digital Built Week sharing their story. One of their talks, the topic of this podcast, was titled: Who is Responsible for Learning and...

Alice Leung, Vice President of Platform and Product Strategy at Brick & Mortar Ventures, joins us for episode 266 of Art of Construction.  Brick & Mortar Ventures is on a mission to disrupt the way we design, construct, and maintain the built world. They identify, invest in, and grow emerging companies developing innovative software and hardware solutions for the industries of architecture...

Carl Storms, Technical Solutions Lead at BIM Track and Host of the BIMThoughts podcast, joins us for episode 265 of Art of Construction and the fourth and final episode leading up to Digital Built Week Americas 2022. Carl knows BIM. He knows modeling, coordination, and improving processes; he’s been doing it for over 20 years. And above all, he knows how to teach and inspire others to adopt BIM/VD...

Alfonso Medina, Co-Founder and CEO of Madelon Group, joins us for episode 264 of Art of Construction.  Today roughly 4 billion people - about 55% of the world’s population- lives in urban areas. By 2050 the urban population is set to grow to more than 6 billion. This exponentially increasing demand, makes the creation of enough dignified, well-designed, and affordable housing one of the biggest an...

Greg Leung, CEO at Connect Homes, joins us for episode 263 of Art of Construction and the third episode in our series leading up to Digital Built Week Americas 2022 in Anaheim, California.   Greg is a former Apple executive who was oversaw their global supply chain planning and management for many years. Now he is using his supply chain expertise — the ability to get the right thing to the right p...

Brian Mackey, Owner of BD Mackey Consulting, joins us for episode 262 of Art of Construction and the second episode in our Digital Built Week 2022 pre-shows. BD Mackey consulting was created to support BIM needs for AEC companies of all size through educational services, technical support, mentoring and custom training. Their goal is to make each company they work with more productive, more effici...

Carson Holmquist, Co-Founder and CEO of Stream Logistics, joins us for episode 261 of Art of Construction. With the emergence of offsite construction (prefab, modular, and pods), the nature of construction logistics is evolving. This modern approach to construction is defined by high stakes. Timelines are tight, space is limited, and delays are wildly expensive. When stakes are high, the wins are...

Wesley Benn, Executive Chairman at the Digital Built Environment Institute, joins us for episode 260 of Art of Construction and the first episode in our Digital Built Week 2022 pre-shows. If you've listened to our show for many years you probably remember our partnership with Digital Built Week Americas in 2019. One of our highest rated episodes is the keynote of that conference which turned into...

Derrick Morse and Logan Farrell, CEO, CTO and Co-Founders of Rugged Robotics, join us for episode 259 of Art of Construction.  Rugged Robotics is a Houston-based construction technology company. Their first product tackles the challenge of field layout, and replaces slow, error-prone, manual layout with an autonomous vehicle that marks fully-coordinated A/E designs directly onto unfinished floors....

Dr. Craig Ellis, Vice President of Services at HighMatch, joins us for episode 258 of Art of Construction.  The construction industry is facing a perfect storm when it comes to employees, with an aging workforce nearing retirement, the great resignation pulling skilled and professional talent into other industries, and the new generation (Gen Z) ignoring careers in construction for other industrie...

Charlie Chupp, Founder and CEO of Fading West Development, and Matt McMullen, AOC Executive Director, join us for episode 257 of Art of Construction.  As the former CEO of Load King Manufacturing in Florida, Charlie spent 20 years manufacturing and general contracting over 4,000 food service stores across the US and Canada. With clients such as Starbucks, Einstein Bros Bakery, Safeway, Kroger and...

David Broomhead, Co-Founder and CEO of Trade Hounds, and Jon Stambaugh, AOC Logistics Director, join us for episode 256 of Art of Construction.  Trade Hounds is built for the hardworking skilled tradespeople building our country and is America's largest professional app for construction. Like a Blue Collar version of LinkedIn, it is a place where the trades can connect, share photos and videos, an...

Antony Kountouris, CEO of BMarko Structures, and Matt McMullen, AOC Executive Director, join us for episode 255 of Art of Construction.  BMarko Structures is a modular construction company based in Atlanta, GA specializing in custom shipping container conversions, steel, and wood modular construction. From pop-up restaurants to COVID-19 modular hospitals and shipping container parks, their goal is...

Jim Baldwin, Founder and CEO of Domatic, joins us for episode 254 of Art of Construction.  Domatic aims to reinvent the way buildings are powered. They are replacing 100-year-old, inefficient 120/240V AC wiring. Instead, they have an intelligent low-voltage DC solution that combines power and data on the same wires. By centralizing AC/DC conversion at the source, they're paving the way for widespr...

Dwight Morgan and Dave Osher, CMO and CEO at OFFSITEK, join us for episode 253 of Art of Construction.  OFFSITEK is an offsite technology company offering an end-to-end solution for industrialized construction that integrates land development, advanced digital design, supply chain optimization and construction. Their factory-controlled environment produces pre-engineered panelized systems and comp...

Amanda Alexander, Client Relations at Stream Logistics, joins us for episode 252 of Art of Construction.  Stream Logistics specialize in construction logistics. Construction is in the midst of radical innovation and the old logistics solutions are not good enough. Offsite construction has changed the way product needs to be transported, stored, and received. They are solution geeks, so they love t...

Margarita Bravo, Founder and Chief Creative Officer at Margarita Bravo, joins us for episode 251 of Art of Construction. Margarita Bravo is a full-service interior design, build, and décor firm in Denver, Miami and Montecito. They have many combined years of experience renovating complex and large projects. Margarita and her design teams have engineering and project management degrees that helps c...

Audree Grubesic, Ken Semler and Gary Fleisher join us for a very special episode 250 of Art of Construction. It’s been almost 4 years since Devon and Audree decided to launch their System Build Lifestyle Series on the Art of Construction. If you've been listening to our program for a while, then you'll remember those episodes! Since that series, both Audree and Devon have delved much deeper into t...

Brady Lewis, Founder at Allmoxy, joins us for episode 249 of Art of Construction. Allmoxy is the online MRP software solution for the cabinet and woodworking industry. From taking orders to estimates to scheduling, Allmoxy does it for you. It can be customized to suit your business, services, and customers. Ordering a cabinet or furniture job can be a straightforward online shopping experience for...

Nathan Patton, Applications Engineer at Trimble, joins us for episode 248 of Art of Construction. As we learned on AOC Show 241 with David Burczyk, Trimble is a company that's transforming the way the world works by delivering products and services that connect the physical and digital worlds. They have been developing mixed reality hardware since the late 90's. In 2014 they partnered with Microso...

Paul McKeon, Founder and CEO of B2W Software, joins us for episode 247 of Art of Construction. Margin pressure, job complexity and competition are intensifying. This makes construction project management more challenging and utilizing construction software more critical. That’s why large and small companies, spanning all heavy civil specialties, have turned to B2W Software for construction estimat...