2026 is already breaking construction’s mental models. And we’re only a few days into the year.

In this week’s Bricks, Bucks & Bytes episode:

🏗️ Data centers keep ripping, but manufacturing has hit a weird plateau.

📉 Condos are collapsing while purpose-built rentals quietly take over.

🤖 Robotics exits are here, JLG acquires Canvas, and physical AI finds its first real buyers.

💸 Tariffs + uncertainty are still poisoning bids and breaking price certainty.

🌱 Green mandates slow down as grids, geopolitics, and data centers take priority.

🎙️ Special guest:

Steve Dell’Orto, Founder of Concentric, joins us fresh off a $10M Series A to talk real pre-construction workflows, not slideware.

But that’s not all:

  • Patric drops a hot take: “We’ll see $3B construction tech exits in 2026.”

  • Dustin calls out “AI-native” theatre and why most startup messaging is built for VCs, not customers.

  • Off-site manufacturing gets a reality check (less hype, more grind).

  • Pre-construction myths get dismantled, no, you can’t compress it to “minutes”.

🎧 Listen now for:

  • Why robotics buyers won’t look like SaaS buyers

  • How LinkedIn content incentives are breaking industry discourse

  • The real reason big incumbents will start acquiring niche tools

  • Why it’s never been easier to start a company and never harder to build a great one

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