As part of Construction Junkie’s annual Best Construction Podcast of 2020 Competition, I have been highlighting each one of this year’s 12 nominees. Next up is The Construction Shared Pains Podcast.
Hosted by three construction technologists, Sasha Reed, Nathan Wood, and Dan Smolilo, the Construction Shared Pains Podcast discuss the challenges construction companies face in adopting technology. While there a few podcasts available discussing the actual hardware and software being released, it’s intrinsically important that construction companies know how to implement that technology and systems for the long term sustainability of it in construction.
“The Shared Pains Podcast is born out of the Construction Progress Coalition, a grassroots nonprofit coalition of AEC professionals and technology solution providers looking to solve our collective challenges with data interoperability between designers, builders, inspectors, and operators of the built environment,” explained Nathan Wood.
He continued, “Despite our background as Construction Technologists, we were less interested in talking about the latest drone hardware or machine learning software. Instead, we wanted to unpack the root causes of contract, culture, and leadership that are currently preventing the broader scale adoption of these digital transformation tools.”
With so many construction companies being in the early stages of tech adoption, it can be an extremely challenging task to roll out any new systems across multiple layers of a business that has been using the same processes for years. It’s extremely rare to find a valuable “plug and play” system that will work immediately for your company with minimal disruption to business.
“If you agree that technology alone will not lead to increased productivity and data analytics in construction, you might enjoy listening to our curated conversations between different industry perspectives,” Wood told me, when asked what he’d like a new listener to know about the show, ” The objective of the podcast is to bring technical subject matter experts (SMEs) from different backgrounds to digest the key terminology, debate the root causes, and share their decision process and strategies that helped them deliver transformative change.”
The Construction Shared Pains is released on a periodic basis, with the last episode being released in January of this year. That doesn’t mean it’s any less relevant now, though, as the episodes act as more of a resource that listeners can download when they need some helpful advice, rather than inhaling weekly content.
To find out more about The Construction Shared Pains Podcast, you can visit their webpage. If you’d like to vote for the show for Best Construction Podcast of 2020, you can do so by clicking or tapping here.
Shane is the creator of Construction Junkie and an active construction project manager. In his career, he has managed interior remodel projects, site development, construction safety, governmental project compliance, and facility maintenance. He has a strong passion for construction technology and safety, as well as sharing the knowledge or insights he has gained throughout his career.