Investing in AEC Innovation Pt 1: Talk Versus Action

Let's digest the root causes of this AEC's vs reward dilemma, before debating if it's possible to find a one-size-fits-all contract solution. When Owners decide that quality and reliability outwieighs bottom dollar bids, how will your business pivot to deliver more value in a future with alternative contract environments?   Interviewees: Rob Fischer, Director of Membership, Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) Brittanie Campbell Turner, Managing Director & Podcast Host, Constructrr   Josh Bone @BIM2theBone & Jeff Sample @IronManOfIT   Show Links CURT Technology & Productivity Summit - https://www.curt.org/events/event-detail/?EventID=603 OS2 Initiative - https://www.curt.org/resources/os2/ Constructrr Podcast - http://constructrr.com/ Construction Blockchain Constortium - https://www.constructionblockchain.org/ Adam Grant on Negotiating (Results vs Relationships) - https://www.ted.com/talks/worklife_with_adam_grant_the_science_of_the_deal John Macomber - Follow the Money - https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=37399 Youtube How to Charge For a Logo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE53O1PzmNU Karen Martin - Clarity First - https://www.amazon.com/Clarity-First-Organizations-Outstanding-Performance/dp/1259837351#ace-g6796040015

Let's digest the terminology of prefab, before debating if the reward is worth the risk. When Owners decide that prefabrication is the new gold standard, will you be ready to deliver? Guests: Briana Williams - StructionSite Amy Marks - Autodesk - @queenofprefab Episode Clarification: "Amy noted that since our interview, 'Intelligent Materials' has now been replaced with "Advanced Building Products" Show Note Links: Spearin Gap - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Spearin Boyde C. Paulson - https://medium.com/@vikofnorway/influence-curve-or-inverted-complacency-curve-954aceeb48bf John Macomber - Follow the Money - https://ascelibrary.org/doi/10.1061/40671%282003%29129 Autodesk & FMI Report on Trust - https://constructionblog.autodesk.com/autodesk-fmi-study/ Careers at The Walsh Group - http://www.walshgroup.com/careers.html      

Together, we’ll digest the root causes of innovation burnout, before debating the role of culture and leadership to break through it.  Ultimately, we must decide which innovation battles that are worth fighting for, and which ones need a little more time to incubate. Before investing the resources necessary to deliver innovation, ensure the cultural health of the organization is ready. Episode Guests: Tooey Courtemanche | CEO, Procore [@tooeyprocore, @ProcoreTech] Alison Hart | Project Solutions, Mortenson [@MAMortensonCo] Satyam Verma | Partnerships, Pype [@PypeInc] Mark Ciszewski | Sales Director, Revizto [@Revizto] Johnathon Grammer | Quality Director, Rogers O'brien [@JGrammer_, @Rogersobrien] Special thanks to AEC Next | SPAR 3D and Procore Groundbreak for Inviting us to their conferences for these interviews.  **Show Links** Revizto CDX Webinar - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awKE7G8HZMU Learn how Mortenson is leveraging Pype at the enterprise level - https://pype.io/case_study/mortenson/ Listen to Tooey’s Keynote Address from the 2019 Procore Groundbreak -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zpVoRlgfFc Research on the Five stages of Burnout - https://www.winona.edu/stress/bntstages.htm The Innovation Burnout Syndrome - http://www.ideachampions.com/weblogs/archives/2018/02/the_dark_side_o.shtml Download the ELECTRI RFI Report at - www.ConstructionProgress.org/ELECTRI McKinsey: Why Most Digital Transformations Fail: https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/transformation/our-insights/why-do-most-transformations-fail-a-conversation-with-harry-robinson

We’ll digest how measurement impacts our incentive to innovate, before debating the return on investment of learning from failures. What changes in measurement are required to drive innovation in construction? How can AEC professionals, project owner/operators, and technology solutions provide a new level of transparency and accountability to thrive in the digital age? What metrics will drive the right behavior changes and deliver measurable improvements to the bottom line?   Guest Perspectives: Ken Schneider, UA Local 268 St. Louis | @UAFIRE_UAVDC Mike Zivanovic, UA Local 597 Chicago | @VDCmikeZ Stephan Schnell, UA Local 467 San Jose | @stephanlschnell Damon Hernandez, AEC Hackathon | @MetaverseOne Kalyn Lengieza, StructionSite | @Just_Ducky Dixon Wright, US Insurance Services | @KDixonWright   Special thanks to 2019  Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA) Technology Conference and AEC Next | SPAR 3D for providing space to record these interviews.    Learn more about the UA Training Initiatives at https://UA.org/training Attend an upcoming AEC Hackathon - https://aechackathon.com/upcoming-events StructionSite user? Check out SmartTrack - https://structionsite.com/smarttrack/  Learn what Surety Resource Connection has been up to - https://sbrm-data-exchange.com/meetings Learn about Eli Goldratt and his "Theory of Constraints" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints Deloitte Article - ‘Rewriting the Rules for the Digital Age’ https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/global/Documents/HumanCapital/hc-2017-global-human-capital-trends-gx.pdf

What is the balance between talk and action to drive innovation in the AEC Industry? If innovation requires a new level of ‘coopetition’, what is the separation between transparency and intellectual property? What can AEC professionals learn from other industries about the ‘art and science’ of innovation? How must leadership adjust adjust their mindset and strategy to harness technology’s full potential?   Guests Jeff Sample @ironmanofit | Director of Strategy @eSUB Travis Voss @pwrliftnerd | Technology Manager, Mechanical Inc. Nick Tillford @yandellnick | BIM/VDC Manager, ‘Steel Fabricator  

  In this episode, we’ll digest the value of connected data across the design, construction, and operation phases, before we debate the challenge of delivering the right information to the right person at the right time. Together, we’ll understand the role of standards and contract incentives to protect our Common Data Environment (CDE) from design collaboration phase to facility operations and maintenance. Guest Perspectives: Carl Veillette [@CarlVeillette], VP Product, BIMTrack (@BIMTrack)  Kelly Cone [ @gkellycone ], VP of Industry Strategy, ClearEdge3D [@ClearEdge_3D] Todd Wynne [ @todd_wynne ], VP of Strategy & Partnerships, Joe Williams [ @vdcjoe ], VP of Global Industry Insights, Bluebeam [@Bluebeam]  

What is an Application Programming Interface (API)? How can API integrations address our Shared Pains with manual re-entry of data from application to application?  What data and process standards are required for open-API solutions to work as advertised? Who is already implementing open-API integrations? Interviewees: Jordan Hoff, PPM Manager, Trimble [@TrimbleCorpNews] Ajoy Khrishnamoorthy, VP of Product Strategy, Vertical Construction, Acumatica [@ajoyk, @Acumatica]  Jason Ramsey, Founder & CEO, Construction BI [@ConstructionBI] Caleb Taylor & Ed Gonzalez, Co-Founders, BuildR [@CalebTaylor_22, @gedwardgo, @buildrtech] Watch Procore’s “Daddy, What’s an API?” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNekVhM7BgA Learn more about Trimble PPM Solutions at https://gc.trimble.com/product-categories/project-management Learn more about Acumatica’s Cloud ERP for Construction at https://www.acumatica.com/industries/construction/ Learn more about ConstructionBI at https://constructionbi.com/ Learn more about BuildR at https://buildrtech.com/ For more detail on the Open-API movement outside of Construction, visit https://www.openapis.org/

DIGEST: What are the different categories of diversity? DEBATE: Do we truly understand the risk of not accepting diverse opinions or ideas? DECIDE: How do we move beyond Surface Level Equality and focus on the value of Interpersonal Diversity? DELIVER: What is the role of leadership (both top-down and bottom-up) to drive this cultural transformation?   Guest Perspectives: Danielle Dy Buncio, VIATechnik [@DDyBuncio] Tauhira Hoossainy, Milwaukee Tool [@MilwaukeeTool] Uchenna Okoye, Skanska USA [@UchennaOkoye5 ] Frank Moore, Autodesk [@AutodeskAEC] Walker Lockard, CPC Executive Vice President [@walker_lockard] Related Discussion Topic Links Tayo Rockson - Communicate With Impact Meyers-Briggs Explanation (by Stephen Colbert) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36wnaSqJtw  Free Personality Assessment - www.16personalities.com DiSC Profile Information- https://www.thediscpersonalitytest.com/data/shopcart7/content_db/Sample%20DiSC%20Classic%20Team%20View%202014.pdf Birkman Map Example - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHPq7TZiMKo Blind Recruitment Article - https://www.fastcompany.com/3057631/how-blind-recruitment-works-and-why-you-should-consider  

This episode brings together a diverse group of industry and technology professionals to discuss strategies and solutions to our collective Shared Pains with data transparency and interoperability. Find out how the Construction Progress Coalition is connecting these different perspectives together around a Common Data Exchange (CDX) approach to measuring and reducing the waste an inequality that has plagued construction for generations. Jimmy Forsberg - Skanska (GC, Sweden) Mark Decker -  Jacobsen (GC, Utah) Danielle Edberg - Procore (Software, California) Nancy Novak - Compass Data Centers (Owner, Virginia) Dave Burns - McCarthy (GC, California) Matt Daly - StructionSite (Software, California)

We digest the root causes of unreliable as-builts; in order to debate which project stakeholders have the most incentive - and influence - to replace analog documentation standards with digital performance requirements. Hearing from these different perspectives, remember….the role is yours to decide which of these innovations applies to your situation, and where to begin.   Guest Interviews:  Allen Angle, Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) @allenangle Connor Christian, InEight @cmchristian330 Todd Sutton, Zachry Construction @justgeekit Mike Boyle, InEight Darren Roos, Bernards @darren_roos     A million small connections: Designing the new NY bridge