HeyJaredBuild Perspectives Podcast
We bridge Wall Street and Job Sites. Real stories, real numbers, real consequences.Hosted by Carolina Baffigo and Tim Seims. https://tinyurl.com/Build-Perspectives
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The Audit That Made a Superintendent Cry: LaShira Champion King on Lean, Quality, and the People Inside the System (opens the original)
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LaShira Champion King never applied to work at Walbridge. She got a call for an internship she had not asked for, planned to be an architect in a black turtleneck, and instead became the company's lean champion because her managing director liked how "our lean champion is L. Champion" sounded in a meeting. Twenty years later she is Director of Quality, Lean, and Innovation at one of the largest privately held builders in the country, and the resident systems thinker in a 110-year-old firm. Carol
I Hold the Warranty: JE Dunn's Callie Johns on the Quality Cop Problem (opens the original)
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Callie Johns went to Northern Arizona University undeclared until her uncle staged an intervention over dinner. Ten years later she is a Quality Manager at JE Dunn, running the quality program on a hyperscale data center in Ohio after stints in Phoenix, Oregon, and Austin. She started as a project engineer, hated pushing change orders, fell in love with the exterior enclosure mock-up, and asked to move into quality right as COVID hit. When her boss quit three months into her first quality role,
Audit the Manufacturer: What the Largest Sub-Default Insurer Sees on Quality (opens the original)
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Matthew Biehl is a Senior Construction Risk Engineering Consultant at AXA XL, the largest provider of subcontractor default insurance in the country. He paid for college loading plywood and laminate at a lumberyard, spent years on the general contractor side including a run as a director of QC, and now walks job sites for the insurer that reimburses GCs when a sub goes down. Which means he sits on something almost nobody else in our industry has: the claims data on why subcontractors actually fa
It's Always What Happens Next: Corey Zussman on the Joints No One Owns (opens the original)
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Corey Zussman is a forensic architect who crossed over to the contractor side in 2006, when almost nobody was doing it. Today he is QA/QC Vice President at AECOM Hunt, with 30+ years, more than 2,000 projects, 200 published Lessons Learned, and over 500 AIA presentations behind him. Carolina sat down with him solo (Tim was out) to find out what a quality professional sees that the rest of us miss. The short answer: i t is never the product. It is what happens next. We get into the joint between
The Levers of Low-Carbon: How Turner Builds the Supply Chain It Needs, with Imani Hamilton, Turner Construction (opens the original)
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Turner Construction is the largest general contractor in North America, the number-one green builder 17 years running, and carries a net zero Scope 1, 2, and 3 commitment for 2040. Imani Hamilton is the person working the supply chain side of that promise. In this episode we sit down with Turner's Sustainable Supply Chain Manager for a conversation that runs from product design to procurement power — because before this seat, Imani spent a decade as a sustainable design consultant helping manufa
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