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Deliberate Words — 84 episodes
What a Week! Emerging Specifiers in an Evolving Industry, with Obed Eriza and Sophie Dalton
What A Week! Field Experience Sharpens Specifications, with Jay Bethel
Collaborator Extraordinaire at SOM, Featuring Rowan Georges
What A Week! The Hidden ROI of Product Shows
What A Week! Supply Chain as a Design Input
What A Week! The Art of Squirreling
What A Week! Do We Really Need Submittal Reports?
Design Intent, with a Cherry on Top - featuring Ben Caldwell, the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)
What A Week! Peek Behind the Curtain of Conspectus Cloud
What A Week! If It's Not Documented, It's Not Designed: The Design Intent Gap.
What A Week! Insurance Requirements: The Hidden Design Driver
Clarity Before Construction: Documenting Design Intent with SPDs
What A Week! To Copy or Not To Copy Spec Sections
Passing the Torch, 4specs Acquisition Announcement with Colin Gilboy
Trebuchets, Tenacity, & Technical Curiosity featuring Tucker Beech Drexel U Architecture Student
What A Week! CURT National Conference Recap: AI, Energy, & Productivity
What A Week! Reference Standards: Say It Once. Say It In The Right Place.
From RFI's to Results: Inside the CURT Dialogue, featuring Construction Users Round Table Members
What A Week! Informational Submittals: What NOT to Ask For
What A Week! 33 Years In: Survival to Succession
What A Year! 2025 to 2026 | Reflections from the Front Line
The Price of Practice - Degrees, Debt, and the Federal Definition of “Professional”
Specs Beyond Borders, Featuring Jim Robbins, Senior Specifier at Conspectus
What A Week! Reflecting on Reflectance
Bright Futures & DBIA
What A Week! Architecture Education & The Specifier Pipeline
What A Week! Streamline the Green: Sustainability Specs
What A Week! High Stakes, Clear Specs: Vegas Transparency
What A Week! CSI National Conference: Cleveland, Connections, Curiosities
What A Week! As-Build or As-Forgotten, Record Documents
Behind the Screams, featuring Jared Bilsak, creator of Lincoln Mill Haunted House
What A Week! From Paper to Policy: DGS Adopts UniFormat
Power Up: Constructing Energy, featuring Andy Browning of Duke Energy
What A Week! Specs Old Enough to Drink - MasterFormat® Updates
What a Week! Keynotes Gone Wild (and how to wrangle them)
What a Week! OSHA-IBC Tug of War
What A Week! Preliminary Specs That Aren't
What A Week! Basis of Design: Clarity or Chaos
What A Week! Moisture Loves A Loose Screw
What a Week! Risks of Custom Parapet Details
What A Week! Unexpected Proposal Request
What A Week! Broad vs Narrow Scope
What A Week! Master Specifiers Retreat
Navigate Construction Claims & Conflict featuring Greg Holness
What A Week! | Universal Waste Specs
Bending Metal. Building A Legacy. featuring Dick Bus of ATAS International
Driving Procurement Strategy - featuring Kevin Batche from IPS
Shattering Expectations in the Glazing Industry featuring Chris McGrory from McGrory Glass
One Hard Hat - The Model that Built Air Products Facility featuring Kevin Sell and Brandon Jordan from The Kwest Group
Keep Exploring | Keep Communicating featuring Matt Brennan from Part 3 and 'What the RFI?!' podcast
MEGA Collaboration on MEGA Projects Ensures Certainty featuring Michael Dubreuil of PTAG
The Profile of a Good Owner - featuring Jack Mumma of UMD, Baltimore
Quest for Quality Resources - featuring Colin Gilboy from 4specs.com
Crunching Contracts, The Intersection of AI and Assessing Risk - Featuring Josh Levy
Roulette, Rodeos, and the Role of a Casino Construction Manager Featuring Ken Stonecipher
Procurement Mathematics featuring Jeff Sawyer from Simplar
Deconstructing the SPD - Featuring David Stutzman & Steve Gantner
Building Bonds - Friendship & Knowledge Exchange at the COAA Conference
Fireside Chat with Conspectus Team
Mapping a Unique Career to GIS featuring Marc Goldman
Specs and Spirituality Featuring Brian Conroy
Welcome to the Continuum, featuring Doug Bevill, General Manager of Conspectus Cloud
Pizza & Prefab: The Ultimate Efficiencies featuring Axel Webb
CSI Convo: Inside Scoop on Regional Conferences
Intro into the Lean Journey featuring John Zachara
Courage - The Journey of a Female Architect, featuring Marissa Iamello
CURT Conference Uncut - featuring Karen Hager, NAWIC and Taylor Boileau of Ryan Companies
Construction Superintendents, Miracle Workers featuring Cy Rangel of Purdue University and Jim Rechenmacher of Boldt Construction
Conspectus Team Fireside Chats
Spill it! What happened at the Design Build Conference? Welcome back Brian Skripac VDC for the DBIA
People. Process. Technology. In that order. featuring Brian Skripac of DBIA
Logic Refocused, featuring Daniel Canning of Teknobuilt
Eyes on the Prize, featuring Neil Cook of Studio Libeskind
Empathy and Construction, featuring Charlie Dunn of DPR
An Attorney's Lens of Lessons Learned, featuring John Sier of Kitch
Perfecting the RFP featuring Jim Beck (AHN), John Reddick (Stantec), and Mark Petzold (Highmark)
The Feedback Loop featuring the Construction Bros
Mother of All Volunteers, featuring Lauren Harris of L2P
Swimming Against the Current, featuring Stewart Carroll of Beck Technologies
Budgets are NOT Bull! Featuring Marcene Taylor, Independent Estimator
Pomegranates & Contracts, featuring Brian Perlberg, ConsensusDocs
The Construction Unicorn, featuring Pete Dumont of Prairie Dog
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