#026 - Alex Walzer - All Things Innovation In Construction

How do we gamify the construction industry? On today's show we have someone who has interesting and incredible ideas for the future of the construction - Alex Walzer. Alex is currently a Doctoral Researcher for Entrepreneurship for Digital Fabrication and Robotics in Construction In this episode, we discuss: Future innovations in the construction industry How gamification can make construction more fun and engaging Open innovation as a way to help you find new and better ways to build things Failure - an important part of learning and innovation --------------------------------------- Alex Walzer - Into Construction Tech Doctoral Researcher at ETH Zurich --------------------------------------- Today's Sponsor: Beta Construction and technology network platform - connecting the tech industry with traditional partners. Check www.the-beta.com --------------------------------------- (00:00:00-00:00:17) - Intro   (00:00:17-00:01:43) - How Alex reached where he is now? (00:01:43-00:02:32) - Research (00:02:32-00:03:31) - How do you stay focused? (00:03:31-00:04:34) - What is worth your time from internet? (00:04:34-00:05:33) - Strategies that can help who is embarking into construction (00:05:33-00:06:22) - Favorite subject in contech (00:06:22-00:07:18) - Implementation of robotics (00:07:18-00:07:44) - Transition into robots in construction  (00:07:44-00:10:29) - Game (00:10:29-00:12:00) - Energy (00:12:00-00:15:04) - VC landscape in robotics (00:15:04-00:18:12) - Contech in the moment (00:18:12-00:19:04) - Digital  fabrication (00:19:04-00:20:03) - How digital fabrication is different? (00:20:03-00:22:59) - What excites you in contech (00:22:59-00:23:30) - How do we get there? (00:23:30-00:26:18) - Consulting business and how it provides values? (00:26:18-00:30:50) - Role of education (00:30:50-00:33:28) - Where did you take your inspiration from? (00:33:28-00:34:25) - Books (00:34:25-00:36:08) - If you have unlimited budget where you would spend it> (00:36:08-00:37:19) - More about Alex (00:37:19-00:37:36) - Outro