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“Anything that’s tied to metal in general, tends to fluctuate a little bit more.”

Eldar Sadikov on which trades took the biggest hit on fixed bids during COVID, when light gauge steel prices could go up 50% overnight.

Concrete and PVC tend to be steadier, while steel and copper are where the risk sits.

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“In a small medium businesses, I think we are thriving right now because there’s so much you can do within half of a day.”

Martin runs an engineering business handling around 30 projects a month and says AI is closing the communication gap that causes most of his problems.

Large companies are not seeing the same gains yet because approvals take too long and the risk appetite is not there. Full episode here youtu.be/tETjUIyqafI

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Don't worry guys,

I am going for a short trip this weekend

Markets will 3x anytime I step away

We will also get a 100M runner onchain

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“Shoot, we actually had zero profit now.”

Eldar Sadikov describes the most common procurement mistake he sees, where a job looks profitable right up until the will call invoices land at the end.

Worth a watch if you look after job costing for a subcontractor.

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“It’s like a quest. Like remember like a game that you used to play, like Pokemon or something.”

Half the speakers at Groundworks were people I had never spoken to when we started planning it, and every call ended with “have you spoken to so and so”.

Running an event turned out to be the fastest way I have found to grow a network.

Full episode here youtu.be/tETjUIyqafI

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“We still won the awards for that building, he said the materials were different.”

This is the moment that made Eldar Sadikov’s co-founder Victor realise how opaque construction procurement really is.

Nobody could trace when the specified materials got swapped, or what actually went into the building.

Full episode here youtu.be/ssBhAX-c3Vk

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“People’s first reaction is like robots are gonna replace humans. It’s like yeah. No, no, definitely not.”

Martin’s view is that a world with far more robots also needs a lot more people to build, install and maintain them, the same way the internet created jobs nobody could name beforehand. The one word he added at the end was “yet”.

Full episode here youtu.be/tETjUIyqafI

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You don’t rise to the moment. You fall to the level of your discipline. 度胸

Concensus seems to be down, so we go up

“They commit to a price and they live and die by that price.”

Eldar Sadikov spent time with Japanese general contractors, where everything is a fixed bid and change orders don’t exist as a concept.

His view is that if the work is done properly in preconstruction, a fixed price is achievable in theory.

Full episode here youtu.be/ssBhAX-c3Vk

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