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The ConTech Exec

Robert Zimmerman

Real people. Real work. Real talk.The ConTech Exec features conversations with the executives, founders and operators who build and power the projects behind AI, manufacturing and construction.Every week we go inside the whole chain that gets a big project built: the demand for AI, the energy and power connections, the sites and infrastructure, the construction trades, the technology, the manufacturing of the equipment, and the capital behind it all. No hype and no jargon, just straight answers from people doing the work.Your host is Robert Zimmerman, who has 35 years in commercial construction as a contractor, general contractor and subcontractor. He is the author of Critical Path and runs Stentorian Research, which tracks whether large capital projects can be delivered.New conversations every week.Website: https://contech-exec.comStentorian Research: https://www.stentorianresearch.comWatch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBCjFumYpr3f1X1wry8rO_A

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87 episodes

  1. Even Your Brightest Engineer Can't Read a Drone Scan 50:58
  2. Who Is On Firewatch? 46:52
  3. Bootstrapped with Zebel 46:07
  4. Never Design Around a Generator You Can't Buy 50:48
  5. Data Centers: Think Small 46:25
  6. Nobody Reads Your Gantt Chart 40:12
  7. The New Age of Power 43:03
  8. Nuclear Visibility 47:13
  9. Robots? Really? ReFrame Opened My Eyes 44:46
  10. Autonomous Excavators 40:04
  11. Sh*t Rolls Downhill. That's Your Whole Bid Process. 47:27
  12. AI Blueprints And As Built Mysteries 45:47
  13. Human Genome to Pipefitting? 48:39
  14. Paving on Main - Last Notes from Cavtera 43:17
  15. End Tech Debt 43:13
  16. Opening the Palantir Black Box - Cavtera 44:14
  17. We Didn't Transform. We Just Digitized. 45:00
  18. Be First To Be Third 45:58
  19. Your CPM Schedule Is a Backwards Pass 44:56
  20. No Time To Plan...But Time To Do It Twice 47:09
  21. Schedule Wrecked? Check Your Materials. | Eshan Jayamanne, Krane 44:31
  22. A Tech Founder's Bet on Construction's Worst Paperwork 42:59
  23. Construction Doesn't Resist Tech. Tech Resists Reality 40:48
  24. Bare Knuckle Commerce - Construction Contracts 39:37
  25. 72% Use Construction AI. Most Use It Wrong. 39:02
  26. I Love It When A Pull Plan Comes Together 44:31
  27. Percent Complete Is the Biggest Lie 26:40
  28. Automate the Dump Run, Not the Operator — Rachael Ferrera 24:46
  29. There Is No Silver Bullet — Steve Jones 22:34
  30. The Superintendent Was Playing Candy Crush — Alan Espinoza 25:32
  31. Operation Science, AI and The DataCenter Reckoning 55:35
  32. Construction Finance Is Its Own Language — And Most Tech Companies Don't Speak It 42:36
  33. When Your Constructability Review Is Trash 46:25
  34. AI Won't Fix Construction 43:08
  35. Dillon Okner (SiteRise) — Source of Truth, Retail Construction, and Why Small Spaces Will Eat You Alive 43:57
  36. Pain Is the Mother of Invention: How a $100K Dispute Built a $500K Solution 41:25
  37. How ConTech Founders Get From the Garage to the Jobsite | Feat. Theo Yeung & Mohit Lohia| The Bullpen 39:19
  38. The Most Expensive Spreadsheet in Construction Is Your Payroll 44:34
  39. Your Job Schedule Is a Lie—and You Know It 47:37
  40. Why Construction Projects Are Built on Incomplete Plans (And What It’s Costing the Industry) 44:27
  41. Why the Last 10% of Construction Projects Always Break Down 44:30
  42. Why Construction Is 30% Less Productive in the Age of AI | Todd Zabelle on Flow, Production & Project Failure (Part 2)) 54:17
  43. Transforming Change Orders: The ClearStory Revolution 48:41
  44. Mid-Market Contractors Are Stuck With Software Built For Someone Else 47:14
  45. Construction Meets Hardline 50:46
  46. CYA is Dead! - Almost* 44:43
  47. "ChatGPT is a Drunken Cheerleader": Construction Law, AI, and the Future of Risk 46:15
  48. The $100,000 Window Mistake 49:36
  49. Your Back Office Is Bleeding Money 48:18
  50. The Flow Problem 44:41