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Carl Christensen of Autodesk joins the podcast to talk about the development of Forma and their focus on the early phases of the design process for better design outcomes. We talk about how his startup (originally Spacemaker AI) evolved into Forma, the use of AI as an assistant to designers rather than a replacement, and the potential for AI to help with rapid simulations and analysis. We also discuss the benefits of live collaboration, real time access to data, the openness of the platform, and about how Forma is expected to evolve after this first release.To learn more about Carl Christensen, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.coMentioned in this episode:Sponsor: ConfluenceConfluence is an intimate, invite-only conference event for AEC professionals and technology providers to discuss industry trends and ideas, together. Learn more at https://getavail.com/confluence/Sponsor: AVAILAVAIL is the content management system you deserve. With its beautifully simple interface, AVAIL makes it easy to to manage, organize, find and use your information. Designed by designers for designers and engineers, the AVAIL platform takes advantage of visual acuity, allowing for a visual audience to identify what they need in a couple clicks. To learn more visit http://getavail.comSponsor: TRXL+ MembershipWith a TRXL+ membership you will get your own private feed for ad-free episodes of the podcast, the show notes right in your podcast app and in your inbox, your own ad-free copy of every TRXL AEC/tech newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, and additional member-only content over time. Get $20 off your first year when you sign up today. Go to https://trxl.co/launch20

Dr. Tessa Lau of Dusty Robotics joins the podcast to talk about her entrepreneurial background, where the idea for Dusty came from, what Dusty the robot does on construction sites to enable multiple trades to be more efficient and ultimately cut weeks off construction schedules, the design, brand, and persona of the robot, how Dusty works, who’s adopting Dusty as a tool for projects, and much more.To learn more about Dr. Tessa Lau, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.coMentioned in this episode:Sponsor: ConfluenceConfluence is an intimate, invite-only conference event for AEC professionals and technology providers to discuss industry trends and ideas, together. Learn more at https://getavail.com/confluence/Sponsor: AVAILAVAIL is the content management system you deserve. With its beautifully simple interface, AVAIL makes it easy to to manage, organize, find and use your information. Designed by designers for designers and engineers, the AVAIL platform takes advantage of visual acuity, allowing for a visual audience to identify what they need in a couple clicks. To learn more visit http://getavail.com

Bob Habian of Tect joins the podcast to talk about what we’re actively doing at Tect in our early stage of the business, challenges that we’re addressing head-on in the building industry, how we’re approaching the re-alignment between building product side and design professionals, managing expectations in regards to the timeline involved in overcoming some of these challenges, typical venture funding versus crowdfunding, solving problems from within versus from the outside of our industry, and more. To learn more about Bob Habian, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.coMentioned in this episode:Sponsor: ConfluenceConfluence is an intimate, invite-only conference event for AEC professionals and technology providers to discuss industry trends and ideas, together. Learn more at https://getavail.com/confluence/Sponsor: AVAILAVAIL is the content management system you deserve. With its beautifully simple interface, AVAIL makes it easy to to manage, organize, find and use your information. Designed by designers for designers and engineers, the AVAIL platform takes advantage of visual acuity, allowing for a visual audience to identify what they need in a couple clicks. To learn more visit http://getavail.com

Campbell Yule of Cerulean Labs (makers of the Spaces App) joins the podcast to talk about how they are putting a spin on the act of sketching with modern digital tools and analytics, bringing the fun part back to designing, not trying to do everything, the ability to work offline, collaboration and sharing, the magic of sketching in front of clients, iteration in design, and more.To learn more about the guest, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.coMentioned in this episode:Sponsor: ConfluenceConfluence is an intimate, invite-only conference event for AEC professionals and technology providers to discuss industry trends and ideas, together. Learn more at https://getavail.com/confluence/Sponsor: AVAILAVAIL is the content management system you deserve. With its beautifully simple interface, AVAIL makes it easy to to manage, organize, find and use your information. Designed by designers for designers and engineers, the AVAIL platform takes advantage of visual acuity, allowing for a visual audience to identify what they need in a couple clicks. To learn more visit http://getavail.com

Dr. Madeline Gannon of ATONATON joins the podcast to talk about the potential of robots and machines as they relate to us humans, the difference between programming robots to do a task versus creating an interaction model (AKA how to talk to machines), how working with robotics has led to what she describes as “moving matter with our minds”, her next endeavor with cable driven robots, her work on the continuum of creating intelligent and autonomous machines, and more.To learn more about the guest, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.coMentioned in this episode:Sponsor: ConfluenceConfluence is an intimate, invite-only conference event for AEC professionals and technology providers to discuss industry trends and ideas, together. Learn more at https://getavail.com/confluence/Sponsor: AVAILAVAIL is the content management system you deserve. With its beautifully simple interface, AVAIL makes it easy to to manage, organize, find and use your information. Designed by designers for designers and engineers, the AVAIL platform takes advantage of visual acuity, allowing for a visual audience to identify what they need in a couple clicks. To learn more visit http://getavail.com

Robert Yuen of Monograph joins the podcast to talk about economic uncertainty including inflation and interest rates, how they affect architecture and engineering practices, Monograph’s A/E strategic risk report for 2023, how to get ahead of the (likely) upcoming challenges in regards to business foundations, culture, and talent retention, the notion of recalibrating business, the true value of relationships with staff and clients in practice, technology adoption strategies, what’s next for Monograph, and more.To learn more about the guest, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.coMentioned in this episode:Sponsor: AVAILAVAIL is the content management system you deserve. With its beautifully simple interface, AVAIL makes it easy to to manage, organize, find and use your information. Designed by designers for designers and engineers, the AVAIL platform takes advantage of visual acuity, allowing for a visual audience to identify what they need in a couple clicks. To learn more visit http://getavail.comSponsor: ConfluenceConfluence is an intimate, invite-only conference event for AEC professionals and technology providers to discuss industry trends and ideas, together. Learn more at https://getavail.com/confluence/

Christine Williamson of Building Science Fight Club joins the podcast to talk about data versus wisdom, the culture of saying ‘no’ in architecture, Instagram as a platform for knowledge transfer and teaching, the reality of every building being a prototype, mentorship (or a lack-thereof) in the profession, the “Kardashianization” of social media and the user’s expectations of creators on those platforms, getting back to first principles thinking and teaching, the idea of ‘code minimum’ as an analogy of architectural education, building science for architects, and having better frameworks for learning the fundamentals of practicing architecture so one can go farther, faster.To learn more about the guest, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.coMentioned in this episode:Sponsor: ConfluenceConfluence is an intimate, invite-only conference event for AEC professionals and technology providers to discuss industry trends and ideas, together. The conference is going on the road in 2023 to reach a broader audience with one-day regional events in Los Angeles and New York City. Learn more at https://getavail.com/confluence/Sponsor: TRXL+ MembershipWith a TRXL+ membership you will get your own private feed for ad-free episodes of the podcast, the show notes right in your podcast app and in your inbox, your own ad-free copy of every TRXL AEC/tech newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, and additional member-only content over time. Get $20 off your first year when you sign up today. Go to https://trxl.co/launch20Sponsor: AVAILAVAIL is the content management system you deserve. With its beautifully simple interface, AVAIL makes it easy to to manage, organize, find and use your information. Designed by designers for designers and engineers, the AVAIL platform takes advantage of visual acuity, allowing for a visual audience to identify what they need in a couple clicks. To learn more visit http://getavail.comSponsor: ConfluenceConfluence is an intimate, invite-only conference event for AEC professionals and technology providers to discuss industry trends and ideas, together. Learn more at https://getavail.com/confluence/

Mark Thorley and David Flynn of KOPE join the podcast to talk about ways in which we can move forward as an industry, digital tools, roadblocks, the value of the people behind building products and building relationships with them, offsite construction, prefabrication, how labor shortages, rising material prices, and supply chain problems are catalysts of change, configurators, improving decision making with embedded logic, and the KOPE platform.To learn more about the guests, see the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and find the past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.coMentioned in this episode:Sponsor: TRXL+TRXL is now offering memberships. That’s right, you can now *directly* support what we’re doing here on the TRXL podcast. With a TRXL+ membership you will get your own private feed for ad-free episodes of the podcast, the show notes right *in your podcast app* and in your inbox, your own ad-free copy of every TRXL AEC/tech newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, and additional member-only content over time. Special launch offer: Get $20 off your first year when you sign up today at https://trxl.co/launch20

Melodie Yashar of ICON joins the podcast to talk about:Earth and Space architecturethe glacial pace of “traditional” architectureher work on competitions for NASA that led becoming a Space ArchitectBIM on Marshow she got connected to ICONher work at ICON leading the architecture and building performance teamlarge gantry-based 3d printing for wall systemsICON’s strategic partnerships on 3d printed housingprocuring building permits for 3d printed housingICON’s upcoming universal housing prototype competitionand moreTo learn more about the guest, get the full show notes with links, find more episodes, and see past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.coMentioned in this episode:Sponsor: TRXL+TRXL is now offering memberships. That’s right, you can now *directly* support what we’re doing here on the TRXL podcast. With a TRXL+ membership you will get your own private feed for ad-free episodes of the podcast, the show notes right *in your podcast app* and in your inbox, your own ad-free copy of every TRXL AEC/tech newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, and additional member-only content over time. Special launch offer: Get $20 off your first year when you sign up today at https://trxl.co/launch20

DescriptionRoger Krulak of FullStack Modular joins the podcast to talk about:FullStack Modular's design to manufacturing approachhow they achieve their deliverables using parametric design toolsthe typical inefficiency of development that drives innovation at FullStack Modularthe degree to which the building industry is, in Roger’s words, a “big monster”Design for Manufacture and Assembly (DfMA)the goal of getting the entire team all on the same side of the tableindustrialized constructionand other topicsFor full show notes, more episodes, and past guests on the TRXL podcast please visit https://trxl.coMentioned in this episode:Sponsor: TRXL+TRXL is now offering memberships. That’s right, you can now *directly* support what we’re doing here on the TRXL podcast. With a TRXL+ membership you will get your own private feed for ad-free episodes of the podcast, the show notes right *in your podcast app* and in your inbox, your own ad-free copy of every TRXL AEC/tech newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, and additional member-only content over time. Special launch offer: Get $20 off your first year when you sign up today at https://trxl.co/launch20