#062 - Aarni Heiskanen - Building Finland’s Biggest Office With Just 92 mb of memory - Decades of Disruptive Innovation In Construction

In today’s episode of Bricks & Bytes, we have Aarni Heiskanen, the Construction Innovation Agent at AE Partners

Learn why construction innovation is hard, how workers waste 80% of time, how digital tech cuts costs 20%, and how sustainability is driving the future.

Tune in to find out about:

• Why construction's complexity makes innovation nearly impossible
• Research showing 80% of worker time wasted searching for info
• How on-site "mini factories" could optimize with robotics
• How digital tech like BIM is already cutting quality costs 20%
• Why sustainability is imperative and requires digitization

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Aarni Heiskanen | Construction Innovation Agent at AE Partners | ConTech

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Timestamps:

(0:00-1:22) - Intro

(1:22-6:00) - Innovations happening in construction

(6:00-19:10) - Tips to increase productivity in construction

(19:10-22:10) - What works best in terms of innovation in construction

(22:10-31:10) - What people are more interested in among tangible products and software in construction

(31:10-36:10) - Benchmarks for measuring innovation

(36:10-38:00) - AEC Business

(38:00-40:10) - Strategy for growing on LinkedIn

(40:10-41:08) - Outro