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The Debrief: July 2026
The platforms are buying the inputs
Once a month, I sit down with some of the brightest minds in the industry and argue through the construction news that actually mattered. The episode is the conversation. This is the analysis.
The mo...
I Use the Tools. I Don't Believe the Numbers.
Opinions about construction tech’s hours-saved claims usually come from one of two camps. There’s the cheerleader camp, where every new platform is about to transform the industry, and there’s the cynic camp, where nothing works and nothing...
Construction Briefs | 019 - What the Machines Should Keep Their Hands Off
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Welcome to this week’s Construction Brief.
Where I go through one thing thats been on my mind, a software or piece of tech to watch and a field note on a trend I am seeing from my interactions.
As I was setting my new container off...
You Need Five New Hires to Replace One Retiree
Construction’s labor conversation is usually a counting exercise. Retirements out, apprentices in, subtract one from the other and publish the gap. has run those numbers more carefully than most of the people quoting them, and his version...
The Debrief: June 2026
Once a month, I sit down with some of the brightest minds in the industry (Episode Link) and argue through the construction news that actually mattered. The episode is the conversation. This is the analysis.
You’re reading the first Execut...
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