The construction podcast for everything they don't teach you

Whole careers of expensive lessons. About an hour a week.

The lessons that usually cost a project, a client, or a career to learn. Stephen Poppe and Lars Herman get them out of the people who lived them.

62 episodes: field leaders and executives from 30+ ENR Top 400 firms, plus the contech founders selling to them

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Recent guests
SVP Operations · Cleveland Construction VP of Digital Solutions · Skanska USA Director of Commissioning · QTS CEO · Trunk Tools Co-founder & CEO · VIATechnik Technology Integration Leader · DPR Construction Director of Digital Strategy · McCarthy General Superintendent · XL Construction Managing Partner · Shadow Ventures
01 / Where to Start

Where to start

All listening paths
If You Run Work in the Field

A former superintendent walks through his playbook for running a successful project.

Start the path: Running the Job →
If You Run the Company

GC executives on what they're actually buying, and why most pilots die.

Start the path: Where the GC Business Is Going →
If You're Building the Tech

Founders and product leads on what the field really thinks of your product.

Start the path: Building for the Jobsite →
02 / Episodes

Latest conversations

All 62 episodes
03 / The Roundtable

Reviewed as Noted

Once a month, a run through the industry news that mattered with a rotating panel of industry experts, sorting what's signal, what's noise, and what nobody's saying out loud.

Listen to the roundtable
04 / The Show

What they won't say on a panel

Project managers, superintendents, VDC leaders, GC executives, and ConTech founders, talking honestly about what actually happens on projects. No scripts, no pitch decks.

If you have a sharp point of view about the gap between technology promises and jobsite reality, this is the room.

Stephen Poppe

Stephen Poppe

15+ years in construction. Director of Digital Construction Operations. Founder of Gantrics.

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Lars Herman

Lars Herman

Construction technology leader focused on what actually works when tech meets the jobsite.

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The honest ask

This show has no marketing budget. It grows when one superintendent sends an episode to another. If something here was worth your hour: follow it wherever you listen, leave a review, and send one episode to one person who needed it this week. That is the whole plan.

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05 / The 50 lessons