Bricks And Bytes

Bricks And Bytes

A show about construction technology, business, and entrepreneurship. Welcome to the Bricks and Bytes Podcast, where we bring together the worlds of construction, technology, and entrepreneurship. We explore the innovative ideas and groundbreaking advancements that are shaping the future of the industry.

  1. 7 小時前

    Why Construction Companies Without Data Will Be Extinct In 10 Years

    "AI is about to create the biggest divide humanity has ever seen." That's the warning Chinn, founder of dConstruct, dropped on Bricks & Bytes. He sold his startup to Autodesk. Built Singapore's Smart Nation. Now he's putting AI robots on construction sites that see every flaw in millimetres. Tune in to find out about: ✅ Why perfect site data is bankrupting construction projects ✅ The new AI currency that will split the industry in two ✅ Why 90% of construction robots are a lie ✅ The data move every construction leader has 10 years to make Watch now on Spotify and YouTube 🎧 #aec #construction #constructiontech #bricksandbytes #bricksbytes #bricksbucksandbytes #ai #vc Our Sponsors: BreadCrumb- 50,000+ projects globally. All running safer, faster, with Breadcrumb. - breadcrumb.co Aphex is the multiplayer planning platform where construction teams plan together, stay aligned, and deliver projects faster – check out aphex.co Archdesk -  “The #1 Construction Management Software for Growing Companies - Manage your projects from Tender to Handover” check archdesk.com Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:54 Quickfire Questions 04:51 Chinn's Career Journey 07:26 Sponsors 10:49 Insights from Working with Autodesk 13:52 Building Smart Nation Solutions in Singapore 16:51 Lessons from Government Work 19:53 The Role of Technology in Construction 22:57 dConstruct: Addressing Labor Shortages with Robotics 24:46 Challenges and Opportunities in Robotics for Construction 28:45 AI's Impact on Society and the Future 32:01 Final Thoughts and Future Directions

    1 小時 9 分鐘
  2. 4 天前

    Stanford Professor's AI Warning, HCSS $2.4B Acquisition, Glydways $170M Series C & Claude Design Credit Trap

    Nemetschek just dropped $2.4B on a software company nobody's heard of.  This week on Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, Owen, Patric and Martin dug into the biggest AEC deal of the year, plus two robotics founders changing how we build.  Tune in to find out about:  ✅ Why HCSS is the smartest AEC acquisition of 2026 ✅ Why Kawazu ditched construction for oil and gas ✅ Mesh Robotics on solving rebar, the ugliest problem in construction ✅ Martin Fisher's rule: 80% data, 20% AI  #aec #construction #constructiontech #bricksbucksandbytes #bricksandbytes #ai #vc Our Sponsors: BreadCrumb- 50,000+ projects globally. All running safer, faster, with Breadcrumb. - breadcrumb.co Aphex is the multiplayer planning platform where construction teams plan together, stay aligned, and deliver projects faster – check out aphex.co Archdesk - “The #1 Construction Management Software for Growing Companies - Manage your projects from Tender to Handover” check archdesk.com Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:56 Celebrating Milestones and Future Aspirations 03:25 Insights from the Martin Fisher Event 06:33 The HCSS Acquisition by Nemetschek 12:09 Strategic Implications of Acquisitions in Construction Tech 30:04 The Genius of Brad Jacobs 30:40 Meditation and Success 31:49 Exploring AI Tools and Credits 35:44 The Future of Urban Mobility: Glideways 45:01 Innovations in Nuclear Power 50:14 Understanding Labor and Scaffold Costs 52:36 The Evolution of Robotics in Construction 54:29 Data-Driven Insights in Material Flow 56:44 The Role of Transparency in Construction 57:58 Scaling Robotics Solutions in Construction 1:01:09 The Intersection of Robotics and Rebar 1:05:31 Bridging the Gap from Lab to Market 1:11:46 The Future of Assembly in Robotics

    1 小時 17 分鐘
  3. 40-Year Stanford Professor 80/20 Advice on Construction AI

    4 天前

    40-Year Stanford Professor 80/20 Advice on Construction AI

    Most of you are spending the wrong 80% of your AI budget right now. And the man who said it has been at Stanford for 40 years. This week: we unpack Professor Martin Fischer's uncomfortable 80/20 reallocation and why building digital feedback loops has to come before the AI layer. We sit down with Suffolk Construction's CTO Jit Kee Chin and Speckle founder Dimitri Stefanescu on what happens when the most data-mature general contractor in the US decides the next bet isn't another point solution. We break down why Andreessen Horowitz — the firm behind Facebook, Airbnb and GitHub — has just publicly planted a flag in construction. And we cover our third Fight Night, where TestFit's Clifton Harness and Join's Andrew Zukoski disagree on whether AI compresses or fragments the industry. Three things you can action this week. No fluff. Links and resources mentioned in this episode: Martin Fischer & Bricks & Bytes - COMING SOONSuffolk Technologies' investment in Speckle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcPDoOwU_pk&t=78sAndreessen Horowitz's public construction thesis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzaqa52ccng&tBricks & Bytes Fight Night 3 — Clifton Harness vs Andrew Zukoski (full episode) - COMING SOON Bricks & Bytes Fight Night — Mike vs Luigi on AI estimating - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9eVyABO2AQBricks & Bytes Fight Night — KP vs Dustin on the future of construction software - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If0jJnX7tZYTilbury Douglas becomes first UK contractor to deploy a humanoid on site - https://www.tilburydouglas.co.uk/tilbury-douglas-becomes-first-contractor-to-launch-a-humanoid-robot-on-construction-site/Breadcrumb — digital safety, orientations and permits synced into Procore - https://breadcrumb.coOur newsletter — Beehiiv subscription page - https://bricks-bytes.beehiiv.com/LinkedIn post for this episode (for comments/engagement) (coming shortly) - [URL]

    20 分鐘
  4. 6 天前

    The World's Biggest VC Takes On Construction

    Every building you've ever been in was designed by software built in 1997. That's the headline a16z used to put the bat signal out to AEC founders — and Joe Schmidt got dragged for it on LinkedIn. But he's not a tourist. His grandfather invented the concrete pump. In today's episode of Bricks & Bytes, we had Joe Schmidt from Andreessen Horowitz and got into the three attack vectors for disrupting Revit, why the services layer is the hidden prize… and many more! Tune in to find out about: ✅ The 3 ways startups are attacking Autodesk's "workflow monopoly" — and which one Joe would bet on today ✅ Why replacing Revit in 5 years is unlikely (and why you don't need to) ✅ The real "why now" for AEC AI — it's not just LLMs ✅ Joe's advice to contractors and designers: adopt fast or get left behind🎧 Full episode out on Spotify and YouTube! Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:20 Introduction to A16Z and Joe Schmidt's Background 05:00 Understanding A16Z's Investment Philosophy 09:29 The Construction Industry's Potential and A16Z's Interest 15:57 Thesis Overview: Innovation in Construction Tech 20:21 The Role of AI in Transforming Construction 25:45 Challenges and Opportunities in Construction Tech Adoption 25:52 The Evolution of Design and Budgeting in Construction 31:34 Incentives and Rework: A Double-Edged Sword 37:38 AI's Role in Enhancing Design Efficiency 42:12 The Human Element in AI-Driven Design 47:51 Navigating the Future of Construction Technology #aec #bricksandbytes #bricksbytes #construction #bricksbucksandbytes #constructiontech #vc #revit #autodesk #a16z 📩 Subscribe to the Bricks & Bytes Newsletter: https://bricks-bytes.beehiiv.com/ 🌐 Visit our website: http://bricks-bytes.com/ 📲 Follow us: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bricks-bytes/ Twitter: https://x.com/bricksbytespod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bricksbytes/ Our Sponsors: BreadCrumb- 50,000+ projects globally. All running safer, faster, with Breadcrumb. - breadcrumb.co Aphex is the multiplayer planning platform where construction teams plan together, stay aligned, and deliver projects faster – check out aphex.co Archdesk - “The #1 Construction Management Software for Growing Companies - Manage your projects from Tender to Handover” check archdesk.com

    48 分鐘
  5. 4月17日

    $1.4 Billion Shoe Empire Collapse, Stock 10x Overnight After Adding .ai, PrimePoint $10M Seed, & Palantir's $5.6M Contracts

    Allbirds just pivoted to AI and the stock jumped from $2 to $21 overnight. This week on Bricks, Bucks & Bytes, Mo (founder of Build Crew, backed by Vinod Khosla) joined us to break down what's actually happening in construction tech right now — and Nitin from Planera dropped in to launch their AI scheduling assistant, Manny. Tune in to find out about: ✅ Why Allbirds' AI pivot looks like a 1999-style dotcom scam ✅ Mo's unfiltered take on why knowledge graphs are the most overhyped term in AEC right now ✅ Why Palantir's real construction customer isn't who you think it is ✅ How Planera's Manny is codifying decades of scheduling expertise before the industry loses it Watch now on Spotify and YouTube. Link in the comments! #aec #construction #constructiontech #bricksandbytes #bricksbytes #bricksbucksandbytes #ai #vc Our Sponsors: BreadCrumb- 50,000+ projects globally. All running safer, faster, with Breadcrumb. - breadcrumb.co Aphex is the multiplayer planning platform where construction teams plan together, stay aligned, and deliver projects faster – check out aphex.co Archdesk - “The #1 Construction Management Software for Growing Companies - Manage your projects from Tender to Handover” check archdesk.com Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:00 Introduction to Mo's Transformation 03:57 The Allbirds Pivot: From Sneakers to AI 07:00 Technological Breakthroughs in Architectural Design 09:50 AI in Construction: The Role of Domain Expertise 12:51 BuildCrew: Mo's New Venture and Its Vision 15:35 Knowledge Graphs: The Future of Construction Documentation 25:11 Integrating Knowledge Graphs in Construction 27:39 The Role of Technologists in Construction 29:18 Palantir's Impact on Construction Technology 31:09 The Future of ERP Systems 34:45 Challenging Industry Norms with Optimism 38:25 Nemechek's Acquisition of HCSS 42:39 Planera's AI Scheduling Assistant 53:27 Current Trends in Construction and AI

    56 分鐘
  6. The AI You Buy Isn't the Advantage

    4月17日

    The AI You Buy Isn't the Advantage

    The business you build around it is. The AI you buy isn't the advantage The man who built Facebook's computer vision team says reading a construction drawing is harder than what he was doing at Facebook. That line reframes the whole AI conversation in construction and it's just one of the threads in this week's briefing. In this episode: The procurement story we've been building. A number of the research findings that will make commercial construction executives uncomfortable in a productive way. Full report drops 24th April - sign up here. Shadow AI is your governance crisis. A senior leader at a major US general contractor describes his single biggest fear around AI... and it's not the technology. It's Bob in pre-con. Plus Maryrose Lyons on why your company data is walking out the door via your staff's phones, and nobody's written a policy about it. Data-readiness is the ten-year moat. Three different AI founders, three different domains — procurement, scheduling, drawings — all saying the same thing. The value doesn't sit in the AI. It sits in the connected data around it. Why the firms pulling ahead aren't buying better AI. They're preparing better businesses for it. The divergence moment. Opus 4.7 was released this week. But there's a model sitting next to it on the benchmark chart called Mythos, and it's significantly more capable than anything on the market. It's not available to you. It's not available to me. And it's the live, in-the-wild evidence that the AI world just split into two tiers. Why this matters for any construction business thinking about the next three years. If this briefing was useful, share it with someone in your leadership team who needs to hear it. Drop your take in the LinkedIn comments — I read every one. This week's sources include:Lubo Bourdev & Hamid, PrimePoint - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDdK18qzQwg Maryrose Lyons, AI Institute - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev6oPUWYgzA Nitin Bhandari, Planera - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTnsWQLN4aQ Bricks & Bytes procurement research report (drops 24 April). https://bricks-bytes.com/downloads/procurement-report/

    20 分鐘

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A show about construction technology, business, and entrepreneurship. Welcome to the Bricks and Bytes Podcast, where we bring together the worlds of construction, technology, and entrepreneurship. We explore the innovative ideas and groundbreaking advancements that are shaping the future of the industry.

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