A commercial project manager by day, a construction satirist by night. Joey Brown thinks the two jobs are the same.
ILLUSTRATOR
Rae Scarfó
Rae Scarfó is a multidisciplinary illustrator with a focus on visual storytelling. They are most excited about mushroom bricks and 3D printed buildings.
Quantity takeoff, material takeoff and cost estimate are three different jobs. When they collapse into one, you lose the ability to answer the only question that matters in review.
The hidden price tag on familiar workflows — and why the math is getting harder to ignore.
One welding inspector’s mission to use metalwork as the way through, for anyone who walks up to her booth doubting they belong.
The most-repeated line about the construction industry is that it resists change. The people doing the work are telling a different story, if anyone will listen.
The New York Times says America's infrastructure is stuck in permitting hell — and they're right. Yet they're missing half the story.
Fast and defensible aren’t opposites. The takeoff is where you prove it — seven steps to a number that holds up when someone’s trying to tear it apart.
Construction Ready has trained and placed thousands of workers since 1998. Here's how the pipeline gets built.
Jean-Pierre Trou spent 20 years designing buildings in Austin. Then he built the AI that reviews them, without ever putting down his red pen.
Communication failure is costing your firm millions. The fix isn't more software, but stopping the one thing everyone already agreed to hate.
