Stop Before You Start
📰 Steve Burrows exposes how time‑based billing and noisy meetings cripple AEC firms, urging a simple “sheet of paper” daily log to cut waste, shift to value‑based pricing, and harness AI for repeatable work.
Evan Troxel
229: Campfire Series - 'The CGarchitect Story', with Jeff Mottle
A conversation with Jeff Mottle about building CGarchitect from a side project into a 21‑year global hub, its sale to Chaos Group, his NVIDIA tenure, and the impact of AI on architectural visualization.
No Leadership Edge this week — but I'm announcing something new
No Leadership Edge this week. Instead, I'm using the space to announce something I've been building toward for a while.
Feature Spotlight is a new live show from TRXL, streamed to LinkedIn and YouTube. It goes live in 2 weeks on May 14th.
One AEC software
228: 'What Did You Actually Do Today', with Steve Burrows CBE
A conversation with Steve Burrows about why the construction industry rewards dysfunction, the pitfalls of time‑billing, the promise of value‑based billing, modular construction challenges, and how AI is reshaping engineering work.
The Three Things Firms Get Wrong About Transformation
📰 Organizational transformations often fail by chasing speed over capability. Instead, focus on cash, clarity, and capability, address cultural and knowledge‑transfer gaps, and treat AI as a design challenge, not just a productivity metric.
The Non-Sexy Work Is Where the Real Leverage Lives
📰 The unglamorous work (spec sync, project setup automation, data plumbing) is where actual leverage lives. Charles Portelli FAIA on his career path and building tools for the AEC industry from the inside.
227: 'Are We Horses or Are We Coal', with Rachel Riopel
A conversation with Rachel Riopel about why digital transformation initiatives in AEC firms often fail, the importance of organizational clarity and capability, and how to bridge the gap between technology pilots and meaningful change across the entire organization.