Daily Commercial News and Journal of Commerce national managing editor Vince Versace hosts this special podcast and guides us through interviews with construction logistics guru Barry LePatner, eCompliance president Adrian Bartha, Tread CEO Noah Dolgoy and Bridgit co-founder and CEO Mallorie Brodie as they detail how their companies are changing the face of the industry.
In this ever-changing landscape, contractors with readily available, quickly digestible, and easily executed on construction data have become king. With construction bidding becoming more competitive, general contractors are having to carefully plan projects to optimize their resources and mitigate risk — all with the goal of remaining as profitable as they can on every contract.
As the construction industry digitizes, the tools have moved from the desktop to the field and are now forecasting the future. Bridgit co-founder and CEO Mallorie Brodie said when the company put out Bridgit Field as its first product there was already a move towards digitization but it focused on the office rather than the worksite.
When it comes to manpower meetings, the last thing any general contractor wants is to have drawn out, unorganized meetings that result in ill-informed construction workforce planning being pieced together. Especially when gathering your full operations team for a meeting is likely creating the most expensive meeting your organization can have.
Construction KPIs can be a little bit confusing at first, so let’s start with the basics. What is a KPI? A KPI is an acronym for “key performance indicator.” These indicators function as signs that your company is functioning according to plan. It involves prioritized metrics that are “key” to your business and the way that it functions and operates.
Founded in 1950 by Andy Andersen in Portland, Oregon, Andersen Construction now has offices throughout the Pacific Northwest including Portland, Seattle, Eugene, and Boise. Today, the regional builder’s specialties include healthcare, education, and multi-family housing. However, they have done every type of horizontal construction.
View video In this episode, Bridgit’s COO and Co-Founder – Lauren Lake – goes into detail about the steps that Bridgit took in order to find a gap and identify the challenges within construction workforce management, and how they turned their research into an incredible product used by over 150 general contractors across North America.
View article From bringing tech solutions to the construction industry to creating compostable phone cases, these businesses are selling fresh ideas.
View article When Mallorie Brodie describes the process of preparing for a pitch, I can tell I’m talking to an expert. Bridgit Solutions, the company she and her co-founder, Lauren Lake, started has raised over $9 million in capital to date, even though she initially didn’t expect to receive any angel investment when she first
View article I recently sat on a panel at the SaaSNorth conference in Ottawa. Sharing the stage with great Canadian tech leaders like Mallorie Brodie from Bridgit and Ralf Dagher from VEEM got me thinking about my transition from Product leader to the role of CEO. One of the themes the panel covered was about
