From civil engineering to superintendent: leading a jobsite without trade experience 🎧 Listen to Episode 365 This article is a lightly edited transcript of my conversation with Erin Saiki on the Construction Genius podcast. I cleaned it up for reading, but the words are hers. To hear the whole thing, listen to Episode 365. Erin Saiki runs…
The Construction Genius Podcast · Episode 374 ▶ Listen to Episode 374 Camilo Garcia and Mike Humphrey co-lead DPR Construction’s Northeast region. Mike has been with DPR for 33 years and Camilo for 23, and together they run the region’s offices and teams. In this conversation, they trace the cycles DPR has been through, from…
Walk into any construction company doing $50M to $500M in revenue and ask the owner what’s slowing the company down. You’ll get fast answers. People. Margins. Talent retention. Schedule pressure. Now ask a different question. “How does a project actually move through your company from bid to closeout?” Watch what happens. The answers slow down….
The conversations that keep construction owners up at night aren’t bids or schedules. They’re the ones where words matter most. Letting a twenty-year employee go who has no idea it’s coming. Telling an owner the project schedule just slipped six weeks. Confronting a partner who’s coasting. Renegotiating with a subcontractor who’s been your guy for…
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…