My Favorite Moments from Episode 239 "You're Not Going Home Early"
💬 Thirty-one lines worth keeping from episode two of The Next AEC Tech Stack. Twelve voices on switching costs, muscle memory, and where the time you saved went.
Business Model
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.
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.
What Free Building Codes Actually Cost
📰 Two brothers put the building codes online in 2016. A year later the lawsuits started and never stopped. Garrett Reynolds on what it actually costs to keep the law free, and why the hardest part was never the software.
236: 'No One Can Own the Law', with Garrett Reynolds
A conversation with Garrett Reynolds about UpCodes' decade-long legal fight to keep building codes free, the impact of the Pro Codes Act, and how sustained litigation shapes the AEC industry.
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.
234: 'Here's to the Crazy Ones, AEC Edition', with Håvard Vasshaug
A conversation with Håvard Vasshaug about liberating building data from Revit, real‑time data flows, reducing outdated six‑week information, and turning risk into revenue for AEC firms.