Archibald McLellan

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405 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 22 Apr

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Builders, Budgets, and Beers · Don’t Let Weak Process Stop Your Growth with Archibald McLellan · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

dude that's insane how much is how much is away again uh it's uh 53 500 pounds uh 53 000 pounds full bag of gas and then you can go pick up you can see that one right over there yeah it's carrying the howitzer the 120 millimeter uh gun uh underneath it artillery that's insane okay so did you operate these things

yes yeah i was i was a pilot um and then had an opportunity to be a forward air controller uh and then uh went through our weapons schoolhouse um and i was an instructor at a weapon schoolhouse and then came back was a squadron commander i got out of uh aviation uh as i went down to uh socom uh and then got into a very interesting it's called the 3x operations and uh did a bunch of uh you

very cool things, uh, all over the world.

And, and then, uh, went to Marsock, uh, had, uh, was up there and, uh, had command up there and then out to South Africa and then, uh, Afghanistan and, uh, back to, uh, SOCOM where I retired.

I retired in 20, right amidst COVID.

Couldn't be a better opportunity to go find a new job than during the midst of COVID.

So I ended up...

working for a private equity firm um with a mentor of mine and he said hey you're kind of interested in uh construction and you're interested in you know technology and all this other stuff and and so he brought me into this private equity company and everything was focused on construction uh and and so we started to do this uh building information modeling we started to take a look at the process the strategy all this other stuff that went into this and uh and we found

that there was a gaping hole, you know, and it was, you know, this was right after the McKinsey report had come out about construction was slow to evolve and adopt technology and all this.

And this gentleman happened to be one of the guys that worked for Skunk Works back in the late 60s, early 70s, as they were doing some very interesting aircraft thing.

he couldn't understand why construction hadn't adopted modeling three-dimensional modeling the way the aviation industry did back in the 60s and 70s when it just got too expensive to go out and fly an airplane rip their wings off and go huh

okay that didn't work yeah let's figure out something a little cheaper than that yeah and and so we got involved and we did a project it was really interesting um there was a commercial car wash and and they were about 60 of the way through the or 50 of the way through the project the shell had been done they were just getting ready to start on the interior meps and all that other stuff and

We agreed we were going to do a proof of concept and ended up doing the full three-dimensional thing, BIM model, all that other stuff.

And the guys were like, hey, listen, we're having a lot of trouble building the model from the beginning because none of the datum worked.

And I was like, okay, fellas, they're almost 60% through.

Sprinkle some fairy dust on this thing.

Move out.

Let's get ahead of these guys so I can give them some good stuff.

And they're like, we'll figure it out.

So whatever they had to do to mesh up the model, all the different models.

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