The Construction Genius Podcast · Episode 351 ▶ Listen to Episode 351 Mark Whitson started at DPR Construction with his tools in his hands and leads the company as president today. That path tells you most of what you need to know about how DPR builds people. I sat down with Mark on the Construction…
You know the person I’m talking about. The estimator who hits 95% accuracy in twenty minutes while everyone else takes three hours and lands at 60%. The veteran super who walks a site and immediately spots the safety issue nobody else sees. The senior PM who can smell a bad subcontractor on the first phone…
When was the last time you sat down and thought hard about how your business actually runs? Not the org chart. Not the strategic plan in a binder. The actual processes. How a project gets bid. How a change order gets routed. How a forecast gets built. Most owners can’t answer those questions clearly….
Here’s a number that should make you uncomfortable: $31 billion. That’s what the U.S. construction industry loses to rework every year. And if you think that’s somebody else’s problem, pull up your last three projects and look at the change orders, the RFIs, and the schedule slippage. Somewhere in there, you’ll find rework. You always…
Last week I was in the room with the leaders of SMACNA Western Washington. SMACNA is the association for sheet metal and HVAC commercial contractors. Owners. Senior PMs. Operations heads. Contractors who pay for ChatGPT, Claude, or Copilot and aren’t sure they’re getting their money’s worth. The room was sheet metal and HVAC. The problem…
I. What Nobody Says at the Retirement Party Every construction executive retires with a list. The tower was topped out. The hospital delivered the baby six weeks early. The multifamily deal that finally came in on margin after three that didn’t. Nobody at the retirement party talks about those things for very long. What they…