Prefabrication won't save your MEP company on its own. Run it wrong and it quietly bleeds you. In this episode, Jake Olsen, CEO of Stratus, explains how to make fab actually pay off. He's a structural engineer with more than twenty years in construction and construction tech, and he's blunt about where the money goes.

In this conversation you'll learn:

• Why prefab is really a labor strategy, and how "geographic arbitrage" keeps your crews busy

• Why MEP fab is neither manufacturing nor field construction, and why that matters

• How overproducing and carrying too much work-in-progress strands your cash

• Where prefab actually gets won, and it's in preconstruction, not the shop

• The two biggest money-losers in any fab shop: material handling and rework

If you run fabrication, or you're thinking about building a shop, this episode will change how you set your expectations.

Connect with Jake Olsen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mrjakeolsen/
Learn more about Stratus: https://www.stratus.build/