Polishing the Prison Bars From the Other Side
📰 Gavin Nicholls calls it "polishing the prison bars from the other side." Eleven BIM 2.0 builders and users on what switching platforms actually costs a firm, in time, culture, and money.
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239: You're Not Going Home Early
A conversation with Gavin Nicholls, Carl Christensen, and nine other people building and using BIM 2.0 tools about the real cost of switching platforms, sunk-cost bias, and why adoption stalls even when the tool is better.
The Technology Tax Nobody Can Agree On
📰 I asked nine AEC tech companies if their software actually frees architects to design, or just moves the tax to a different line item. The answers surprised me.
The Sawtooth Chart Was Never the Enemy
📰 The sawtooth was never the enemy. Phil Read makes the case that the jagged stopping points everyone spent twenty years trying to smooth away were where judgment got applied, and asks what replaces them now.
238: Half Your Day Isn't Design
A conversation with industry leaders about how BIM 2.0 tools consume half of architects’ day, the hidden “technology tax,” and strategies to reclaim design time and control software costs.
237: 'The Interns Will Have Interns', with Phil Read
A conversation with Phil Read about treating AI as an intern, preserving human judgment through sawtooth decision points, and the need to teach delegation early in architectural practice.
Getting Paid to Carry the Risk You Keep Avoiding
📰 The industry spent decades shedding risk. Håvard Vasshaug thinks that instinct is killing the profession's upside, and the firms taking risk back on are ending up light years ahead. The case for more crazy ones in AEC.