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Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Thursday Mar 03, 2022
Episode 141:
Happy Birthday to “The Building Code!”
Hosts Zach and Charley spend this episode celebrating memorable guests who’ve shared their construction insights the past year as the podcast turns 3.
Now 141 episodes in, “The Building Code” has featured a variety of hosts and guest hosts and spotlighted guests from the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Episode 1 launched in March 2019 with Buildertrend co-founders Dan Houghton, Jeff Dugger and Steve Dugger reflecting on how they turned an idea into the leading residential construction software platform.
Listen back to that episode here.
Today, special guest and podcast director/editor John Beck joins Zach and Charley as they each highlight their favorite guest of the last year.
Three Big Takeaways:
Builders who engage employees retain their most talented
- Benji Carlson of Breakthrough Academy discusses why construction employees need to see how they grow in their organization to remain engaged.
Challenging status quo profit margins can unlock new success
- Russ Stephens of the Association of Professional Builders shares why builders only hold their businesses back when they settle for the margins they’ve always had.
Homebuilding in extremes: Save lives first, then structures
- Bill Gray of LMC Building and Construction in New Zealand explains how a devastating earthquake there in 2011 forced builders to rethink codes.
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