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Real people. Real work. Real talk.The ConTech Exec features conversations with the executives, founders and operators who build and power the projects behind AI, manufacturing and construction.Every week we go inside the whole chain that gets a big project built: the demand for AI, the energy and power connections, the sites and infrastructure, the construction trades, the technology, the manufacturing of the equipment, and the capital behind it all. No hype and no jargon, just straight answers from people doing the work.Your host is Robert Zimmerman, who has 35 years in commercial construction as a contractor, general contractor and subcontractor. He is the author of Critical Path and runs Stentorian Research, which tracks whether large capital projects can be delivered.New conversations every week.Website: https://contech-exec.comStentorian Research: https://www.stentorianresearch.comWatch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBCjFumYpr3f1X1wry8rO_A
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The ConTech Exec is hosted by Robert Zimmerman. The show has published 86 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Who Is On Firewatch?" (23 October 2026, 47 minutes), "Bootstrapped with Zebel" (19 October 2026, 46 minutes), and "Never Design Around a Generator You Can't Buy" (10 October 2026, 51 minutes).
The ConTech Exec publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 45 minutes across 86 episodes.
Booking probability for The ConTech Exec is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The ConTech Exec requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The ConTech Exec's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for The ConTech Exec are Commercial Building Construction. The ConTech Exec has a business audience.
Robert Zimmerman hosts The ConTech Exec, a business podcast with 86 episodes published.
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Episode #2646
A construction site is the most dangerous version of a building, and it's the one with the least fire protection. I sat down with James Pecz, VP of North America at Ramtech. The Nottingham, UK company has been building...
Episode #2645
Every estimator is a walking database, and some day that database retires. I sat down with Hamid Hajian, founder of Zebel, who grew up on job sites with his dad, a developer and GC. He saw a problem in precon at a big...
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Data center equipment lead times are stretching construction schedules, and generators, switchgear, and transformers are where it hurts most. Mike Powers, Co-Founder and CEO of BuildVision, walks me through a data...
Episode #2644
Everybody's building data centers the size of a small city. What if the better answer is a lot smaller? This week I sat down with Meltem Ballan, CEO and co-founder of Concrete Engine. She started her career as a pattern...
Episode #2644
Projects don't blow up in one big moment. They drift. The master schedule says one thing, the job site is doing another, and nobody finds out until somebody walks into the Monday meeting and starts shouting. This week I...
Episode #2642
Every project management software out there promises "real-time visibility." Hussain Arwani was managing 15 to 20 nuclear construction projects at once, and he'll tell you straight: he didn't have it. When the boss...
Episode #2643
Everybody thinks you plug these AI chips in like a toaster, flip the switch, and off it goes. It doesn't work that way. The new AI chips don't pull steady power. They spike and drop many times a second. Michael Wood III...
Episode #2642
Thirty-five years in this business and I've never seen this career path: DARPA robotics, then years leading Amazon's robot arms that pick and pack everything you order, then… go build houses. Felipe Polido, co-founder...
Episode #2643
There's an excavator loading trucks on a live job site right now with nobody in the cab. Not a demo. Not a parking lot test. A paying job with 1.2 million yards of dirt to move, and that's just phase one. Rachael...
Episode #2641
Owner hires an architect. Architect draws something beautiful. GC bids it out with two weeks and zero contact with the person who drew it. The trades get three days and a set of drawings with the RFIs still baked in...
Episode #2639
Construction AI is moving from hype to real operational leverage, and Raymond Zhao thinks the biggest unlock is not replacing engineers, but giving them a smarter assistant that catches problems before they become RFIs...
Episode #2640
Construction fabrication is still riddled with a costly lie: the model is not the workflow. David Basiji explains why the real bottleneck is getting from BIM and CAD into the shop and then through every cut, bend, weld...
Episode #2638
We close out the three-part series with Joe and Ryan from Cavtera, and this is the one that actually answers the question the first two episodes set up. Turns out the code you build inside Palantir Foundry belongs to...
Episode #2637
Part two with the Cavtera guys, Joe Patrois and Ryan Quesnel. Last week we cleared up the vocabulary — what Palantir Foundry actually is, what an ontology is (the nouns and verbs of your business, nothing fancier than...
Episode #2636
<p>The conversation delves into the concept of Palantir Foundry and its impact on construction technology. It explores the challenges of legacy technology, change management, and the role of AI in modernizing...
Episode #2636
The conversation delves into the concept of Palantir Foundry and its impact on construction technology. It explores the challenges of legacy technology, change management, and the role of AI in modernizing construction...
Episode #2635
<p>Before he was Field COO for public sector at Procore, AJ Waters was an engineer whose actual job on a project was moving RFIs out of his company's spreadsheet and into the owner's spreadsheet, then carrying the...
Episode #2635
Before he was Field COO for public sector at Procore, AJ Waters was an engineer whose actual job on a project was moving RFIs out of his company's spreadsheet and into the owner's spreadsheet, then carrying the answer...
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<p>Steve Jones started studying BIM in 2005, back when five people would give you ten definitions of it. Twenty years later he's still doing the same job: finding out what contractors, owners, and designers are actually...
The ConTech Exec
Steve Jones started studying BIM in 2005, back when five people would give you ten definitions of it. Twenty years later he's still doing the same job: finding out what contractors, owners, and designers are actually...
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