Owen Drury

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Builders, Budgets, and Beers · From Budget Nightmare to Profit Machine · 6 Aug 2025 podcast

So they're trying to...

work out ways now this is the consensus of how to consolidate that down to say 50 or less arbitrary number but sure yeah literally reduce it by uh by 80 um that's interesting to see how that'll pan out and i think that the it's either gonna be done through artificial intelligence and agentic workflows

but the jury is still out on that.

There's companies that are doing it, but I think a lot of them are still yet to prove themselves.

And there's also this pressure from big tech.

So obviously the data center boom is among us.

And these big tech companies, Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon, Google, et cetera, they don't want to wait 24 months for a data center.

even though everyone in the whole construction industry is like no it takes 24 months they're like i don't care i don't want to wait 24 months you find out how to build it quicker for me so you have this pressure now from big tech coming into the industry forcing the big builders to think like okay how can we actually deliver it for 18 months and that's resulted in um these large companies hiring

internal software slash AI engineers to build custom solutions for the projects to speed them up, and also a lot of offsite and prefabrication.

So the good thing about data centers is they're generally very standardized, so you can manufacture a lot offsite rather than relying on too much site labor.

And hopefully that kind of effect of that translates to the rest of the industry where we can start to think about, yeah, push the limit.

How do we build quicker?

How do we get the infrastructure?

Housing is a major issue.

Like you mentioned earlier, shortages.

How can we get these things done quicker?

That's still to a good level of quality, of course.

So yeah, that's what's on.

And obviously labor shortages, hardware, robotics is a hot, hot topic.

Totally.

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