ICYMI: Construction’s Biggest Problems: Heat, UX, and Hidden Utilities
Want to get your message in front of {{active_subscriber_count}} highly engaged innovation leaders? Check out our sponsorship offers. This Week’s Quickfire BytesFuel your curiosity with this week’s contentW/C 21st July 2025 NEW EPISODESBuilding the Google Maps of Underground America – This Ex-Soldier Mapping What’s Beneath Our Feet IItzik Malka from 4M Analytics and we got to learn about turning military explosive detection expertise into construction tech, the tragic consequences when underground mapping fails, and how AI is revolutionizing subsurface data. Find out how military landmine detection skills translate to finding buried utilities, why 8% of every construction budget goes to unknown underground risks, and the business model that maps once but sells the same data forever. open.spotify.com/episode/5A61O2cYA3wjN46HTwYp2i $5B Heat Crisis, 89% Productivity Drop, Startup Reality Check, SuperSede Plastic Innovation, $10M Raise Success with Sean Petterson In this episode, we dive deep into the hidden forces reshaping the AEC industry, plus exclusive interviews with game-changing founders who are disrupting everything. We cover the $5 billion heat crisis destroying construction schedules (and why Martin thinks it’s just an excuse), why 70% of construction tech startups are failing at Series A funding round, and the brutal truth about why all construction software has terrible UX design. open.spotify.com/episode/0uRhJgP8HVqJveUpl8ZQC6 Young Marketers Cost More Money – Marketing Mistakes & Fixes from a Silicon Valley CMO Phil Carpenter, a fractional CMO, shares why most AEC startups fail at marketing, the hidden costs of inexperienced hires, and how to actually reach construction professionals. cwhy AEC customers are more skeptical than other industries and what they really want to see, the “crossing the chasm” strategy that determines startup success or failure, and why LinkedIn marketing doesn’t work for most construction professionals. open.spotify.com/episode/3D4CFpBDqykP0I15UWiQyz View All Podcasts BRICKS & BYTES PREMIUMEarly Release Episodes Augmenta’s Bold Bet: Automating the ‘Hardest Problem’ in Construction – Francesco Iorio – EARLY RELEASE Francesco Iorio left his Director role at Autodesk to solve construction’s most complex automation challenge. 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