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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.com
Stentorian Research: https://www.stentorianresearch.com
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBCjFumYpr3f1X1wry8rO_A
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.com
Stentorian Research: https://www.stentorianresearch.com
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBCjFumYpr3f1X1wry8rO_A
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Average audio length:
42 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
87 episodes
since Nov. 25, 2024
episodic
explicit content
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I sat down with Hamid Hajian, founder of Zebel, who grew up on job sites with his dad, a developer and GC. He saw a problem in precon at a big Bay Area multifamily builder and fixed it with a spreadsheet. That spreadsheet tu…
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Everybody's building data centers the size of a small city. What if the better answer is a lot smaller?
This week I sat down with Meltem Ballan, CEO and co-founder of Concrete Engine. She started her career as a pattern recognition engineer, worked on NATO projects, studied the brain, and spent tim…
Projects don't blow up in one big moment. They drift. The master schedule says one thing, the job site is doing another, and nobody finds out until somebody walks into the Monday meeting and starts shouting.
This week I sat down with Carlos Carvalho of Aphex, calling in from London. Carlos started …
Every project management software out there promises "real-time visibility." Hussain Arwani was managing 15 to 20 nuclear construction projects at once, and he'll tell you straight: he didn't have it.
When the boss asked for a status, the honest answer was "let me get back to you."
So he built M…
Everybody thinks you plug these AI chips in like a toaster, flip the switch, and off it goes.
It doesn't work that way.
The new AI chips don't pull steady power. They spike and drop many times a second. Michael Wood III of DG Matrix tells me that at big-campus scale, those swings are cracking tur…
Thirty-five years in this business and I've never seen this career path: DARPA robotics, then years leading Amazon's robot arms that pick and pack everything you order, then… go build houses.
Felipe Polido, co-founder and head of technology at Reframe Systems, did exactly that.
The plans an arch…
There's an excavator loading trucks on a live job site right now with nobody in the cab.
Not a demo. Not a parking lot test. A paying job with 1.2 million yards of dirt to move, and that's just phase one.
Rachael Ferrera leads innovation at Zachry Construction. Zachry, Sundt Construction and Cham…
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