Marc Barone, COO of Buro Happold, shares how they scaled from strong to exceptional, the real impact of AI on engineering productivity, and why listening matters more than action in your first 90 days as a leader.

Find out how Buro Happold grew 75% in three years while tripling profitability, why understanding what to say no to is as important as knowing what to say yes to, and the truth about measuring AI productivity gains and what actually works.

In this episode of Bricks, Bucks & Bytes we dig into the week’s biggest stories in construction tech, from strategic acquisitions to what actually happened at Groundbreak.

We discussed why Buildots bought Genda and how tracking workforce alongside progress creates a competitive edge (especially for catching inflated change orders), Dustin’s firsthand account of Procore’s Groundbreak keynote, and Luigi La Corte from Provision explains how skimping on branding early hurt their credibility with customers (even while being capital efficient).

We sit down with Lauren Lake, co-founder of Bridgit, and Kevin Ferguson from AECO Product Marketing to uncover how two college students disrupted the construction workforce planning industry—and built a company that now serves half of the top 20 general contractors in North America.

From CAD to VR: 13 Years of Digital Transformation – Gary Cowan – EARLY RELEASE

Listen Now: Gary Cowan, Head of Digital Construction at Kane Group, reveals how an Irish MEP contractor evolved from treating BIM as a compliance checkbox to running 10+ simultaneous projects using VR.

How Document Crunch Built a Community-Led Growth Engine – Lori Peters – EARLY RELEASE

Listen Now: Document Crunch’s Lori Peters shares the hard-won lessons from scaling a marketing team in one of the fastest-growing construction tech companies—and why their strategy looks nothing like