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.
Business Model
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 Asteroid Is Visible Now
📰 Martyn Day has covered AEC for 37 years. He says this moment is unlike anything he's seen — not one disruption, but a dozen arriving at once. Engineering automation. AI-written software. Open SDKs. Palantir. The full edition is for firm leaders.
224: 'Everything Is Going to Change', with Martyn Day
A conversation with Martyn Day about the transformative impact of AI and automation on the architecture and engineering sectors, the weakening of traditional software moats, and the strategic importance of data ownership in navigating the future of AEC business models.
Culture is a System. Here’s How One Firm Designed It.
📰 What if innovation wasn’t a side project, but core infrastructure? This Leadership Edge edition unpacks how OPN Architects built culture, alignment, and digital practice by design and why adoption matters more than the next shiny tool.
215: ‘Proactive By Design’, with Wes Reynolds and Hugh Soward
A conversation with Wes Reynolds and Hugh Soward about how OPN Architects is intentionally shaping its future through digital practice, innovation culture, and the importance of an annual firm retreat for aligning design and technology across their mid-sized firm.
Why Thornton Tomasetti’s CORE Studio is a Model for the Future
📰 Rethinking practice through platformization, embedding data and AI into delivery, scaling R&D beyond experiments, and aligning culture, KM, and incentives to transform how architecture and engineering firms operate and compete.