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Site tech. No jargon. Coming soon.
The first post on the account. What this is, who it's for, and a promise to keep the forty-slide PowerPoints off site.
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Digital construction.
No jargon. 60 seconds… ish.
No jargon. 60 seconds… ish.
Today on site
Site tech, explained like you're on a tea break.
BIM, IFC, CDEs, digital twins and every other three-letter word they keep throwing at site. What it is, why you should care, and the catch. In plain English, for the people who actually build things.
Latest episodes
Sixty seconds. Ish.
Every episode is planned at one minute. Here's how that's going.
COMING SOON
EP 01
Coming soon
What actually is digital construction?
Forty-two slides, a spreadsheet only Steve understands, and why scanning a form and emailing it round isn't it.
PLANNED1:00
ACTUAL2:02
COMING SOON
EP 02
Coming soon
What actually is IFC?
The architect can open it. The engineer can't. Somehow it's now your problem. The PDF of building models, explained.
PLANNED1:00
ACTUAL1:36
Two shows, one tea hut
Pick your shift
ConTech for Hard Hats
The explainers. One bit of site tech per episode: what it is, how it works, why you should care, and the catch. No jargon, no forty-slide PowerPoint.
New episodes most weeks. Programme subject to weather.
BREAKINGGROUND
The news. When a software company announces the future of construction (again), we look back at the last time they said it and tell you what actually changes on Monday.
Live from the tea hut. Usually a month late. It's been stuck in approvals.
The jargon skip
Translated for the cabin
- IFC
Industry Foundation Classes - The PDF of building models. Any software can open it, and nobody owns it.
- CDE
Common Data Environment - One shared place for drawings and documents, where everyone can see which revision is the real one.
- BIM
Building Information Modelling - A 3D model where every wall knows it's a wall, what it's made of and where it lives.
- Golden thread
Building Safety Act information duty - The building's service history: who did what, when and why, kept up to date for its whole life.
Coming up on site
Next on the programme
Tell us which one to do first in the comments on TikTok.
CDEs: why are we on Rev C when it's Rev F?
The golden thread
Clash detection
Laser scanning
AI on site
COBie
Who's behind this?
A few people who've spent too long on site and in software demos
We got tired of watching good site teams get talked down to by brochures. So we explain it the way you'd explain it at the tea hut: short, honest, and with the catch included.
- Sales pitches
- Sponsored "reviews"
- Forty-slide PowerPoints
- What it is, why you should care, and the catch
Raise an RFI
Spotted a mistake? Got a buzzword to bin?
Corrections, topic ideas and polite heckling all welcome. Response times better than most RFIs. Not hard.
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