HeyJaredThe Deconstruction Podcast
Construction isn’t just about building—it’s about breaking things down to make them better. The Deconstruction Podcast dives deep into the untold stories, insider insights, and success strategies that shape the construction industry.
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When Factories Start Building Houses, Which Trades Get Hit First (opens the original)
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Mattamy's founder is putting a fully automated factory in the Toronto area with a target of 3,000 housing units a year. If that works, the labour bill on a new build drops by roughly $60,000 a house. That money is coming out of somebody's pocket, and if you swing a hammer for a living, it might be yours. Kosta and Johny game this one out. How long until the factories are actually producing at scale, which trades get squeezed first, whether the savings ever reach the homebuyer, and what happens w
Contractor Insurance Up 22%, Rate Cuts, and AI Answering Services (opens the original)
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Your general liability premium went up again this year, and unlike tariffs, there's nobody to blame and no easy way to put it on an invoice. The average GC doing $5M in revenue is paying about $48,000 more in premiums than they were two years ago. Most contractors are absorbing all of it. Kosta and Johny break down what's actually driving the increase, including the new coverage requirements (pollution and cyber) that builders are starting to demand on startup documents. Johny walks through what
Losing Money on Every Job, Back on the Tools, and the Employee You Can't Fire (opens the original)
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You can have every crew working, every truck rolling, and invoices going out the door, and still watch money leave the account for five months straight. Charlie ran into exactly that this year, and the only reason he caught it early was that his labor numbers were sitting on his phone instead of buried in the office. Kosta and Charlie get into what a losing stretch actually looks like from inside a commercial plumbing company: rain-delayed underground work, engineers stopping crews mid-shift, re
Busy Season, Thin Margins, and Knowing When to Say No (opens the original)
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Your calendar is packed through August and your revenue looks great. Then the quarter closes, you sit down with your accountant, and the profit isn't there. Kosta and Johny get into why that happens every summer and what actually moves the margin. This one covers auditing your own expenses (including a company quietly spending $2,200 a month on printing that dropped to $900), whether you should raise prices when you're booked solid, how to calculate overhead and profit properly instead of slappi
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