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.

61 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 61 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

Built for adjacency, not scale

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