AEC Business
by Aarni Heiskanen
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Building Contech for the Field: Credibility, Adoption, and Simplicity
Building Contech for the Field: Credibility, Adoption, and Simplicity
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Construction innovation and technology
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- Building Contech for the Field: Credibility, Adoption, and Simplicity · 36 minJoin Aarni Heiskanen as he interviews Oskar Smeds from Pictue about the challenges and strategies in construction technology.
- Building Trust into Al-Generated Engineering Design · 35 minIn this AEC Business podcast episode, Kalle Valkama of A.Engineer discusses how AI is changing the engineering design business.
- Construction Robot Pilots Are Rigged for Success but Seldom Scale · 24 minDiscover the challenges and opportunities in construction robotics with insights from Rishabh Aggarwal of Raise Robotics.
- Construction by the Numbers · 42 minAmir Berman from Buildots returns to the AEC Business podcast to talk about improving construction productivity with data and AI.
- AI, Trust, and Innovation with Gijs van Wulfen · 33 minInnovation consultant Gijs van Wulfen, creator of the FORTH innovation method, author, and keynote speaker, returns to the AEC Business podcast ten years after his first…
- RONI: What You Lose by Not Investing in AI · 38 minAI strategist Sam Zolfagharian returns to explain the metric one top ENR engineering firm, Wade Trim, uses instead of ROI: RONI, the Risk of Not Investing. She argues that asking…
- From Dark Data to Building Intelligence · 20 minDive into AI innovations in real estate with insights from Mark Sorsa-Leslie on connecting data and enhancing building maintenance.
- Endra Rethinks MEP Design with AI · 31 minAarni talks with Niklas Lindgren, co-founder and CEO of Endra, the Stockholm MEP AI startup that just closed a $50 million Series A.
- Beyond the Pilot: How AEC Firms Scale AI Adoption · 31 minDiscover practical ways to implement AI in AEC through internal template libraries and risk management frameworks from a leading expert.
- How AI Will Let Open Source Win in AEC · 28 minMaarten Vroegindeweij, founder of the OpenAEC Foundation, makes the case that AI will not kill open source AEC software but help it win.
- AI Agents and the Future of Construction Sales · 28 minAarni talked with Paul Indinger about the challenges of construction sales and how AI solutions like Building Radar can make a difference.
- How AI Turns Construction Documents Into Procurement Intelligence · 30 minI speak with Victor Muchiri from BuildVision about what makes AI useful in construction procurement, not as a pilot, but in production.
- AEC’s Single Source of Truth: Reality or Pipe Dream? · 42 minWith so many platforms involved in a construction project, is a true 'single source of truth' even possible? Experts share their views.
- Beyond Gantt: The Rise of Flow-Based Production · 26 minExplore how production management transforms site productivity with innovative strategies from Antti Pukema of Sitedrive.
- Re-Engineering Construction Flow with Takt · 29 minExplore the concept of Takt in construction with insights from Aleksi Heinonen on its transformative effects and applications.
- The BIM Handbook: What’s New and What’s Next · 33 minIn this episode of the AEC Business podcast, we talk with Marzia Bolpagni of MACE, co-author of the new fourth edition of the BIM Handbook.
- Reinventing Construction Procurement with SubBase · 31 minI sat down with Eric Helitzer of SubBase, a procurement platform that aims to bring order, transparency, and automation to this domain.
- Real-Time Data for Construction Productivity and Health with eGate · 24 minAarni Heiskanen discusses with Jarkko Haukijärvi of eGate jobsite monitoring and predictive analytics with IoT sensor data.
- OpenSpace and the Visual Intelligence Revolution with Jeevan Kalanithi · 38 minIn this episode of the AEC Business podcast, Aarni Heiskanen welcomes back Jeevan Kalanithi, CEO of OpenSpace, to explore how the company is redefining construction site…
- Twinmaster: ChatGPT for Architects, in 3D · 37 minOn the AEC Business podcast, we discuss TwinMaster, an AI Copilot-powered digital twin platform, “ChatGPT for Architects, in 3D."







