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W/C 1st December 2025

NEW EPISODES

What If You Could Give 80 Teams 3 Days Back Every Month? This Company Did.

Wilson from PROJEXION talks about the real state of construction data (spoiler: it’s a disaster), why hiring data scientists isn’t solving the problem, and how teams are finally breaking free from the endless cycle of firefighting.

“I Broke Down Crying” – Aconex $1.2bn Exit Story

Rob Phillpot, founder of Aconex and now investor at Glitch Capital, talks about billion-dollar exits, why construction tech hasn’t seen another mega-acquisition since 2018, and what’s next for the industry.

How Fast Can You Really Build a $500M Data Center? – Inside the Adrenaline Rush of Data Center Construction

Katie Coulson from Skanska Advanced Technology shares how they’re building data centers and semiconductor fabs at tech company speed, why they’re often starting construction before the design is even finalized, and what 31 years in construction has taught her about the future of the industry.

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BRICKS & BYTES PREMIUM
Early Release Episodes

The Autodesk Storytelling Playbook – Lee Mullin – EARLY RELEASE

Listen Now: After 18 years at Autodesk, Lee Mullin reveals why your product demos are sabotaging sales and the exact messaging framework that turns skeptical buyers into believers.

Why AI Should Build McDonald’s Before It Builds Burj Khalifa – Alim Uderbekov & Genevieve Davis – EARLY RELEASE

Listen Now: $300B industry running on spreadsheets. Surfaice AI’s founder reveals why this won’t last long.

2 FAVORITE QUOTES:

“I think the next wave of disruption is gonna be tools where humans don’t have to do all the data entry themselves, because we’re bad at it, we do it late, we do it wrong, we make mistakes.”

– Rob Philpot on eliminating manual data entry in construction software

“The legacy narrative is, well, you need a higher data scientist and you need your Power BI and, well, your data is in a really terrible spot. And so we can’t do anything with it.”

– Joe Wilson describing the old paradigm that creates adoption barriers

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