HeyJaredBuildable {ish}
A smart, funny podcast cohosted by a structural engineer and a project manager – two professionals who live day-to-day in construction coordination. We take a candid, smart, and often humorous look at what really happens between design intent and finished construction.
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Hold For Clarification: Verify in Field (opens the original)
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It sounds responsible. It’s on renovation drawings everywhere. And sometimes…it means nobody actually checked. In this Hold for Clarification minisode, Brian and Alex unpack “Verify in Field” and the difference between using field verification to manage uncertainty and using it to avoid doing the investigation. From a beam that existed four feet from where the drawings showed it to decades of renovations, buried conditions, scans, record drawings, and the surprises waiting behind walls, we dig i
Designing Around a Ghost Vendor (opens the original)
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Episode 014 – Designing Around a Ghost Vendor Show Description The drawings need exact dimensions. The vendor won’t give them to you. And the project still has to go out. Brian and Alex are joined by returning guest Emilie Diggs to talk about what happens when a design team has to coordinate highly specific equipment before theequipment—or sometimes even the vendor—has actually been selected. Using a surgical renovation as the backdrop, they dig into the uncomfortable gap between procurement and
The Spec Trap: One Spec, Two Specs, Old Specs, Blue Specs (opens the original)
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The Spec Trap: One Spec, Two Specs, Old Specs, Blue Specs Show Description Specifications are supposed to clarify the drawings. Until one section references an old code, another came from a different master spec, the owner added their own requirements, the manufacturer says something completely different, and nobody remembers who edited what. In this episode of The Spec Trap , Brian and Alex dig into how a project manual slowly becomes its own coordination meeting. Master specifications, owner s
That Was Not Our Sub (opens the original)
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Episode 013 – That Was Not Our Sub Show Description Everyone thought it was covered. That was the problem. Brian and Alex dive into the increasingly complicated world of subcontractors, sub-subs, delegated scope, and the dangerous assumption that responsibility automatically travels downstream with the work. After a utility survey performed by a consultant’s subcontractor misses a major water line, a renovation projectquickly shifts from teamwork to damage control—and eventually to the inevitabl
Scope Gap: Expansion Joints (opens the original)
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Show Description It might be the most expensive line on the drawings. Structure sees movement. Architecture sees a cover. Mechanical sees ductwork and piping. Electrical seesconduit. Roofing sees waterproofing. Fire protection sees a rated assembly. The contractor sees six trades trying to cross the same line. The expansion joint itself usually isn't the problem. The problem is that everybody touches it—and nobody owns the whole thing. In this Scope Gap minisode, Brian and Alex follow the expans
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