All Episodes
Built Different — 98 episodes
Episode 98: Sunbelt Modular's 4-Way Merger With Titan Group
Episode 97: The $124B Estimating Bottleneck
Episode 96: ProSet Modular Scales National Install Capacity
Episode 95: Data Center Boom Reshapes the ENR Top 400
Episode 94: Data Center Build Boom Rewrites GC Playbook
Episode 93: Modular Contracts: What Canadian Projects Get Wrong
Episode 92: Alora at Dry Creek and the Case for Repeatable Modular
Episode 91: Mind the Gap: Onsite vs. Offsite Interface Risk
Episode 90: Manufactured Housing's $2 Trillion Blind Spot
Episode 89: Hanford's $45B Waste Removal Enters New Phase
Episode 88: 1872's $15M Bet on AI-Native Steel Fabrication
Episode 87: MBI Sues Oregon Over Prevailing Wage Extraterritorial Reach
Episode 86: ESI's AI Flywheel: Semiconductors, Data Centers & Growth
Episode 85: Taylor Morrison's Offsite Math: 16% Premium to 0.7%
Episode 84: Structured Data Is the Real AI Moat in Construction
Episode 83: $234M Floods Into Construction Robotics and AI
Episode 82: AI Agents Targeting Preconstruction Scoping Gaps
Episode 81: Mass Timber in Hurricane Country: T3 FAT Village
Episode 80: Procore's $845M DroneDeploy Acquisition
Episode 79: Massachusetts Prompt Pay Ruling: What Contractors Must Know
Episode 78: Google's $205B CapEx Bet on AI Infrastructure
Episode 77: The 100 GW Power Gap Reshaping Data Center Construction
Episode 76: McKinsey's AI Automation Blueprint for Construction
Episode 75: Data Center Build Speed vs. Execution Risk
Episode 74: New York's Data Center Permitting Moratorium
Episode 73: Holtec Nuclear IPO and the SMR-300 Bet
Episode 72: MBI's $20.5B Modular Market Report
Episode 71: The Steel Chassis Is Going Away
Episode 70: Milwaukee's Tallest Mass Timber Tower Heads to Foreclosure
Episode 69: Suffolk and DPR Bet on AI Hiring Platform Skillit
Episode 68: Government-Backed Modular Factories Are Spreading
Episode 67: The Capital Stack Problem Stalling Modular's Scale
Episode 66: Suffolk's "Jobsite of the Future" AI Engineer Push
Episode 65: AI Data Centers Are Now City-Scale Infrastructure
Episode 64: Construction Confidence Holds While Rate Expectations Flip
Episode 63: Mass Timber Cracks the Lab Building Code at OSU
Episode 62: Cambria Hotel O'Fallon Sets Modules in 8 Days
Episode 61: Hagerty's Freedom to Build Act and Modular Reciprocity
Episode 60: Meta's $115M Craft Labor Bet for AI Data Centers
Episode 59: Prefab's Play in the Data Center Build Surge
Episode 58: Pennsylvania SB 908 Targets Modular Factory Wages
Counterparty Risk: What Happens If Your Factory Fails
Schedule Risk: Why Modular Projects Still Run Late
Design Liability: Who's Responsible When Modules Don't Work?
Labor Risk at the Factory: When Workers Walk
Supply Chain Risk: When Your Factory Can't Get Materials
Exit Strategies: How Modular Affects Disposition and Refinance
Tax Implications of Modular: Depreciation, Sales Tax, and Property Tax
Insurance Gaps in Modular: What Your Policy Doesn't Cover
Factory Financing: The Missing Piece of Modular Capital
Equity vs. Debt: How Capital Stack Changes for Modular
Commissioning Modular: Getting to Certificate of Occupancy
The Punchlist Problem: Why Modular Projects Finish Slow
Weather Windows and Set Sequencing
The GC's Role in Modular: What Changes and What Doesn't
The Set Day: What Actually Happens When Modules Arrive
The Finish Package Trade-Off: Factory vs. Field
Corridor and Core Strategy: Where Modular Gets Complicated
Bathroom Pods: The Module Within the Module
The Module Size Question: Bigger Isn't Always Better
Design for Modular: What Architects Get Wrong
What Has to Change for Modular to Scale
The Lender Education Problem
Why Developers Keep Saying No to Modular
The Factory Capacity Problem
Where Modular Is Actually Winning—and Where It's Not
The Break-Even Point: When Does Modular Make Sense?
When Modular Costs More—and Why That's Sometimes Fine
The Carry Cost Advantage Nobody Models
Why Repetition Drives Modular Economics
The Real Economics of Modular: What the Pro Forma Misses
Regulatory Risk: When the AHJ Doesn't Know Modular
The Interface Problem: Where Factory Meets Field
Transportation Risk: What Happens Between Factory and Site
The Risks Nobody Talks About in Modular
Factory Concentration Risk: When Your Whole Project Lives in One Building
Speed-to-Revenue: The Modular Finance Edge Nobody Measures
What Institutional Capital Actually Wants from Modular
Factory Deposits: Who Owns the Risk?
The Draw Schedule Problem in Modular Finance
Why Lenders Don't Understand Modular—Yet
Steel vs. Wood: What the Numbers Actually Show
Why Concrete Developers Are Looking at Steel Modular
Fire, Termite, and Moisture: The Durability Case for Steel
The Weight Problem: Why LGS Enables Taller Modular
Why Light Gauge Steel Over Wood in Modular
The Coordination Gap Between Factory and Field
Why Lenders Still Struggle with Modular Projects
Where Modular Actually Saves Money—and Where It Doesn't
Why Site Work Still Controls the Timeline
Why Transportation Is a Construction Risk, Not a Logistics Detail
The Hidden Cost of Design Freeze
Why Sequencing Determines Success or Failure
What No One Models in Modular Schedules
Why Early Design Decisions Matter More in Modular
The Factory Doesn't Remove Risk, It Relocates It
Speed Isn't the Advantage—Certainty Is
Why Modular Fails More Often Than It Should