Former chef turned builder Sam Fertik, founder of Carbon Builders, joins Construction Genius to share how he’s disrupting traditional wood-framed construction with insulated concrete homes designed to last 1,000 years, blending a chef’s obsession with recipes and consistency with a visionary approach to innovation, risk, and high-performance building.
In this episode of Construction Genius, sales expert Matthew Neuberger reveals why most contractors stay stuck on the bid list, and shows how a simple, accountable business development system—built on targeted owner lists, consistent relationship-building, and weekly reviews—can shift revenue toward higher-margin, negotiated work.
A practical, fast-paced conversation with construction finance expert Kathe Barrington on how to use backlog and WIP correctly to plan resources, protect cash flow, diversify risk, and sustain profitable growth in your construction business.
In this episode, Eric Anderton and AI expert Dylan Davis go beyond basic ChatGPT usage to show construction leaders how to turn meeting transcripts into repeatable AI workflows that create high-quality follow-up emails, surface insights, and improve project execution over time.
In this episode of Construction Genius, Eric Anderton and author-investor Eric Jorgenson unpack Elon Musk’s five-step “algorithm,” first-principles thinking, and courage-driven risk-taking, and translate those ideas into practical ways construction leaders can question requirements, delete waste, attack bottlenecks, and build more efficient, mission-driven companies.
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