228: 'What Did You Actually Do Today', with Steve Burrows CBE

About this episode

Steve Burrows CBE discusses the dysfunction in the construction industry and the challenges faced by startups attempting to innovate.

Steve Burrows CBE joins the podcast to talk about why the construction industry keeps rewarding dysfunction instead of fixing it. We explore the gap between selling time and creating value, why startups keep failing to change construction by trying to change all of it at once, and what the collapse of Katerra actually taught the people who were in the room when it happened. This episode is especially relevant for firm leaders and engineers who feel trapped in the cycle of meetings, emails, and change orders, and who suspect the system they're operating in was never designed to produce great work. Steve makes a blunt, practical case for starting with what you can control, and his perspective is shaped by decades of working on some of the most complex structures in the world before walking away from the corporate path to figure out what comes next. To learn more about Steve Burrows CBE, see the full show notes with links at https://trxl.co/228 To get more great conversations with AEC technology leaders on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.co _____ Episode Sponsors: AVAIL AVAIL's content management system (CMS) simplifies access to your firm's content in one easy-to-use…

People in this episode

Host: Evan Troxel

Guest: Steve Burrows CBE

Topics covered

• construction industry
• value creation
• startup challenges
• corporate dysfunction
• AEC technology

Keywords

• construction
• value
• startups
• dysfunction
• AEC
• technology
• meetings
• change orders

Sponsors

AVAIL, Confluence

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Katerra

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