Wired & Hammered

Ibrahim Odeh is the Chair of Construction Engineering and Management at Columbia University and founding director of GLCM, a program that has grown to 5,000 industry members globally and over a million learners on Coursera. He's spent the last academic year embedded with major AEC firms studying real-world generative AI adoption, with three white papers landing imminently. This is a conversation g...

Cibby Pulikkaseril is bringing laser vision tech to construction manufacturing through his new company Zabidou. He's taking laboratory-grade sensing and delivering it at 1/10th the cost and 10 times faster to install and commission by building a cheaper, fit-for-purpose sensor stack that's good enough — and using AI to build way more efficiently while stripping out all the platform bloat, cloud fe...

Noel Brady - ProjectMark Noel Brady is co-founder and COO of ProjectMark, a construction-specific CRM. He spent 10 years as a project manager across Irish, UK, and US markets, most recently with Tishman Construction on a $2 billion project in downtown San Francisco. The company started because Noel kept seeing contractors lose work despite being qualified. "Death by a thousand cuts" - messy BD pro...

Doug Vincent - Mastt Doug Vincent is co-founder and CEO of Mastt, a construction project management platform focused on cost tracking and financial controls. They've got customers managing billions in projects across 10 countries. Doug's been deploying AI in the product for a while now, so we talked about what that actually looks like in practice: AI agents read through contracts, invoices, and pr...

In this episode of Wired & Hammered, we explore corporate venture capital with Eliot Jones, Principal at Trimble Ventures. As part of the global technology leader's investment arm, Eliot shares insights on how established corporations are partnering with emerging construction tech companies to drive industry innovation. Key topics covered: Trimble's investment sweet spot: Why Series A startups are...

Summary   In this episode, John sits down with Steve White , General Manager at Civillo , to unpack how spatial data is changing the way civil infrastructure projects are delivered. Steve started his career as a surveyor, and he explains the everyday bottlenecks that pushed his team to build Civillo; a simple, web-based way for engineers, supervisors, managers, and clients to access and work with...

In this episode, John sits down with long-time friend and Tekifi Managing Director, Mike Arnold , to break down what “smart buildings” actually mean today; and why we’re only at the start of the curve. Mike explains how modern buildings are becoming more like smartphones: built on a unified digital infrastructure that enables everything from better user experience to major productivity and energy...

Rory San Miguel, CEO of Propeller, joins the show to discuss building one of the most successful construction technology startups in the world. Propeller's drone mapping platform now operates across 30,000 active sites every month in over 100 countries, processing nearly 300,000 surveys annually. In this episode, Rory shares the pivotal moment when early customers told them to "leave the drone" an...

In this episode, John talks with Hani Arab , CIO at Seymour Whyte , about how a civil engineer became the technology leader for one of Australia’s major infrastructure contractors, and what it actually takes to drive technology adoption across field teams. Hani shares the early moments that pulled him toward tech, from GSM-connected site systems in the 2000s to today’s push toward AI-enabled opera...

This is Wired & Hammered — the show where we break down how technology is changing the way we build, operate, and run the physical world. From mining and construction tech to infrastructure and real-estate operations. Each episode we dig into the tools, tactics, and lessons from the people shaping how these industries actually work — from startup founders to site foremen and asset operators. I'm y...