Bricks & Bytes

Most people who get rich young get rich once. Jake Browning has been cut four times. So he built something that pays him whether he makes the roster or not. Low income housing in Ohio. A demolition company in LA. Neither of them cares how his training camp goes. His words. My earning floor is not zero. Full episode is out now. Full episode is out now. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/eEY-C43H #bricksbucksandbytes #constructiontech #aec #entrepreneurship #realestate

BlackRock just took 80% of a $14bn Meta data center. Meta kept 20%, and it's still the one running the building your crews are pouring concrete for. Roughly $12.5bn of the cost is borrowed money. So the campus your GC answers to is now controlled by fund managers chasing investment-grade returns, not a tech company racing to ship AI. There's a reason this exact structure is spreading to every hyperscaler right now, and a reason it should make you nervous. Read more below👇 https://lnkd.in/eKaCchSy #DataCenters #Construction #AIInfrastructure #BlackRock #Meta

There are two ways to get people to trust you. One is telling everyone how great you are until they believe it. The other is showing up on time. Jake Browning plays quarterback in the NFL and runs a demolition sub in LA. He says every NFL event he goes to is about monetising your brand. Every conversation with a GC is about whether you can operate like a normal human being. He prefers the second one. Full episode is out now. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/eEY-C43H #bricksbucksandbytes #constructiontech #aec #personalbranding #contech

A public-company CEO just admitted he throws out the PR drafts. Rob Painter runs Trimble. He still writes his own keynotes, his monthly all-company videos, and the high-stakes press releases. Why? When someone hands him a polished corporate draft, his reaction is honest. That's not how I talk. In a world of media-trained sameness, it's a small thing that says a lot. Full conversation on YouTube. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/dncYJhk6 #bricksbucksandbytes #constructiontech #aec #leadership #authenticity

30 Jul 2026: Procore Buys DroneDeploy, BAM Rebuilds Margin, and Europe Breaks Through the Alps Procore has agreed to acquire DroneDeploy, bringing aerial imagery, ground robots, fixed cameras and wearable capture into the same platform where teams already manage drawings, RFIs and project decisions. The strategic logic is clear: connect what is physically happening onsite with the workflows used to assign responsibility, track progress and close issues. Subscribe to The Daily Blueprint: https://lnkd.in/ei2UB7v6 

Asked for the most overrated technology in construction, Rob Painter didn't hedge. Digital twin. A term that means everything and nothing. Then he went further on AI. The generalist view of it is overhyped. The applied, context-specific version is underhyped. So in his words, AI is overhyped and underhyped at the same time. The whole rapid-fire round is on YouTube. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/dncYJhk6 #bricksbucksandbytes #constructiontech #aec #digitaltwin #artificialintelligence

“We added AI” is not news in 2026. In this clip, Katie Zeppieri 🎤 explains what actually builds trust in construction tech: -Third-party proof. -Founder-led content. -Consistent visibility over time. Because when people and AI search for your company, your website is not the only thing that matters. What others say about you matters more. Watch Now! 👇 https://lnkd.in/dHKhKg6Z

Most CEOs spend the quarter in board rooms. Rob Painter spent part of his on top of a mountain. Two weeks before this conversation, the Trimble CEO climbed Colorado's highest peak, over 14,000 feet, to survey it with his own team's equipment. His company measured Everest. Sponsored the first African team to survey Kilimanjaro. He moved to Colorado 25 years ago to be near these mountains. His reason is simple. If you want to feel small, go push yourself out in nature. Full episode on YouTube. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/dncYJhk6 #bricksbucksandbytes #constructiontech #aec #surveying #leadership

Bowmer + Kirkland has started work on the first phase of Golden Valley, a £1 billion cyber and technology campus sitting next to GCHQ in Cheltenham. Phase one covers IDEA, a 160,000 sq ft innovation building already 68% reserved, and ROUTER, a transport hub. The scheme itself is a decent win. The more useful signal is the £22.7bn the Ministry of Defence has now committed to defense infrastructure and estate over four years, and what that does to a contractor market already short of security cleared people. #UK #Construction #ConTech #CyberSecurity https://lnkd.in/dhBkBnQx

Rob Painter picks one word a year to run his thinking. 2024 was GSD. Get stuff done. 2025 was intentionality. 2026 is a Finnish word most people can't translate. Sisu. It means the ability to take action in the face of uncertainty. If there was ever a year that demanded exactly that, the CEO of Trimble thinks we're living in it. What's your word for the year? #bricksbucksandbytes #constructiontech #aec #leadership #mindset