Wired & Hammered cuts through the hype. We talk shop with founders, execs, PMs, estimators, foremen, and operators building real systems in heavy civil, mining, and vertical construction.
Ibrahim Odeh is the Chair of Construction Engineering and Management at Columbia University and founding director of GLCM, a program that has grown to 5,000 industry members globally and over a million learners on Coursera. He's spent the last academic year embedded with major AEC firms studying real-world generative AI adoption, with three white papers landing imminently. This is a conversation grounded in research. Ibrahim introduces a framework that cuts through a lot of the noise: the gap...
12 Feb 2026
E08: Cibby Pulikkaseril, Founder of Zabidou
Cibby Pulikkaseril is bringing laser vision tech to construction manufacturing through his new company Zabidou. He's taking laboratory-grade sensing and delivering it at 1/10th the cost and 10 times faster to install and commission by building a cheaper, fit-for-purpose sensor stack that's good enough — and using AI to build way more efficiently while stripping out all the platform bloat, cloud fees, and licensing fees. We talk about how he's targeting precast concrete plants, why constructio...
3 Feb 2026
E07: Doug Vincent, CEO @ Mastt, AI assisted Project Management Software
Doug Vincent - Mastt Doug Vincent is co-founder and CEO of Mastt, a construction project management platform focused on cost tracking and financial controls. They've got customers managing billions in projects across 10 countries. Doug's been deploying AI in the product for a while now, so we talked about what that actually looks like in practice: AI agents read through contracts, invoices, and progress claims (even 500-page documents) and auto-populate the cost trackerTakes work that used to...
3 Feb 2026
E06: Noel Brady, COO @ ProjectMark, the CRM for Construction
Noel Brady - ProjectMark Noel Brady is co-founder and COO of ProjectMark, a construction-specific CRM. He spent 10 years as a project manager across Irish, UK, and US markets, most recently with Tishman Construction on a $2 billion project in downtown San Francisco. The company started because Noel kept seeing contractors lose work despite being qualified. "Death by a thousand cuts" - messy BD processes, uncoordinated proposals, disjointed procurement. He and his co-founders knew these compan...
8 Jan 2026
E05: Inside Trimble Ventures: How Corporate VCs Are Reshaping Construction Tech
In this episode of Wired & Hammered, we explore corporate venture capital with Eliot Jones, Principal at Trimble Ventures. As part of the global technology leader's investment arm, Eliot shares insights on how established corporations are partnering with emerging construction tech companies to drive industry innovation. Key topics covered: Trimble's investment sweet spot: Why Series A startups are the focusThe shocking reality: Construction represents 14% of global GDP but gets only 1% of...
18 Dec 2025
E04: Democratising Spatial Data: Civillo’s Steve White on Modern Civil Construction
Summary In this episode, John sits down with Steve White, General Manager at Civillo, to unpack how spatial data is changing the way civil infrastructure projects are delivered. Steve started his career as a surveyor, and he explains the everyday bottlenecks that pushed his team to build Civillo; a simple, web-based way for engineers, supervisors, managers, and clients to access and work with spatial information without specialist software. Steve breaks down how Civillo lets teams bri...
12 Dec 2025
E03: The New Playbook for Smarter, Healthier Buildings — with Tekifi’s Mike Arnold
In this episode, John sits down with long-time friend and Tekifi Managing Director, Mike Arnold, to break down what “smart buildings” actually mean today; and why we’re only at the start of the curve. Mike explains how modern buildings are becoming more like smartphones: built on a unified digital infrastructure that enables everything from better user experience to major productivity and energy gains. They dig into examples across Australia, London, and Dublin, including how air quality se...
12 Dec 2025
E02: 30,000 Sites: How Propeller Built the Google Maps of Heavy Industry
Rory San Miguel, CEO of Propeller, joins the show to discuss building one of the most successful construction technology startups in the world. Propeller's drone mapping platform now operates across 30,000 active sites every month in over 100 countries, processing nearly 300,000 surveys annually. In this episode, Rory shares the pivotal moment when early customers told them to "leave the drone" and focus on the data platform instead—a strategic decision that transformed their trajectory. We d...
11 Dec 2025
E01: From Site Engineer to CIO: Hani Arab on Tech, Adoption & What’s Next
In this episode, John talks with Hani Arab, CIO at Seymour Whyte, about how a civil engineer became the technology leader for one of Australia’s major infrastructure contractors, and what it actually takes to drive technology adoption across field teams. Hani shares the early moments that pulled him toward tech, from GSM-connected site systems in the 2000s to today’s push toward AI-enabled operations. They dig into the realities of supporting remote projects, why the biggest challenges now ...
7 Nov 2025
Intro to Wired & Hammered
This is Wired & Hammered — the show where we break down how technology is changing the way we build, operate, and run the physical world. From mining and construction tech to infrastructure and real-estate operations. Each episode we dig into the tools, tactics, and lessons from the people shaping how these industries actually work — from startup founders to site foremen and asset operators. I'm your host John Naughton.
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