Constructed Futures
Constructed Futures
Hugh Seaton
A weekly conversation about the future of our built environment, featuring outside experts and seasoned leaders in construction, architecture and more.
Patrick Lalonde: Virtual Design & Construction Excellence at EllisDon
Virtual Design & Construction, or VDC, has become a critical part of project delivery for contractors. Patrick Lalonde, director of VDC for EllisDon, walks us through how it works, and how EllisDon leverages an advanced VDC team to deliver projects faster and more efficiently for their customers.
Feb 22, 2024
20 min
Brandon Milner: Building Digital at EllisDon
Large General Contractors across the industry are struggling with how to make best use of the innovations that keep coming from startups and large companies alike. EllisDon has a heritage of adopting innovations and driving new technologies out to their jobsites, in the process providing better value to customers. Senior Vice President of Data and Digital Engineering at EllisDon, walks through their approach, including their recent ConTech Accelerator.
Feb 15, 2024
28 min
Lee Mills:  Construction Photo & Video Documentation at Pixly
Nothing beats photos to prove a point and resolve a dispute, and Pixly makes it super easy for project teams to snap, tag and share project photos, and videos. Purpose built for construction project teams, Pixly takes the fuss out of project documentation - CEO and founder Lee Mills walks us through the product and how it works.
Feb 13, 2024
22 min
Sara Martin: Advancing Data Center Design at HED
Data centers have become central pillars to modern society, powering everything from social media to streaming video, and now, Artificial Intelligence. As they continue to become more and more powerful, and consume ever more power, designing these facilities has become a refined art of its own. Sara Martin walks us through some of the considerations in modern data center design.
Feb 8, 2024
29 min
Prakash Senghani: Putting AI into Safety at Saifety
Safety on construction jobsites is a critical issue. A number of approaches to improving safety have been tried, to varying levels of success. Saifety, uses AI-powered processes to streamline capture, management and analysis of data so project teams can make better decisions and ultimately, be safer. CEO Prakash Senghani walks us through their product and the thinking behind it.
Feb 6, 2024
24 min
Hamzah Shanbari: A Framework for Construction Tech Adoption in Paperless Builders
After years of overseeing the assessment, choice and adoption of technologies in a major construction contractor, Hamzah Shanbari has created a unique resource for contractors and tech companies alike: a collaborative book that crystalizes lessons learned, and provides framework for thinking about construction technologies and how to integrate them into workflows and project teams.
Feb 4, 2024
27 min
Carl Veillette: Integrating Project Data at Newforma
Newforma has been on the forefront of connecting construction dataflows, and with their 2021 acquisition of BIM Track, Newforma's ability to help customers manage BIM data has increased enormously. Newforma Chief Product Officer Carl Veillette walks us through Newforma's capabilities and how they're helping customers get the most of their project data.
Feb 1, 2024
21 min
Jason Burke: Elevating Collaboration for Investing & Fundraising at All Stage
The decision to invest, and the process to attract and close investors, is messy and often involves lots of back & forth. Jason Burke walks us through the journey that led to All Stage, a platform that manages the investment process from both the investor, and startup founders' perspective, with a laser focus on removing friction and speeding up decision making.
Jan 30, 2024
21 min
Niran Shrestha: Real time workforce management with Kwant.ai
How do you keep track of hundreds, or even thousands of workers on a construction jobsite? How do you map where people are, where they're going, and what routes they use, so you can understand everything from safety to productivity to progress of a job? Kwant provides an array of solutions that help with this, and CEO Niran Shrestha walks us through what the platform can do, and how it helps project teams.
Jan 25, 2024
25 min
Cyril Verley & Kimon Onuma: Revolutionizing BIM Data for Facility Owners at CDV Systems and Onuma
For many years Onuma and CDV systems have independently pioneered information for design and facilities management in BIM workflows. In this conversation, Cyril Verley and Kimon Onuma detail their partnership to create true digital twins, including from past project information. A truly exciting vision, realized in their current products, this points the way towards digital twins as tools for facilities managers in the future.
Jan 23, 2024
25 min
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