E68 Mark Sands - Founder of Building Catalyst "Because Buildings cost too much and take too long to produce"

The Preconstruction Podcast - Commercial Construction.

Our host Gareth McGlynn, sat down with Mark Sands Founder of Building CATALYST, which applies a management philosophy that is grounded in systems thinking - which is inspired by the work of W. Edwards Deming, the father of quality and process improvement.

Discussed in this episode of the Preconstruction Podcast:

- Mark's journey from VP / Partner at The Christman Company to starting Building Catalyst in 2013

- The reasons behind starting Building Catalyst what was the mission at the time and how has that mission changed

- What is Building CATALYST and why Owners and Contractors need it

- The Psychology around change within our industry, what will it take for real change in our processes

- How his customers reacted in 2019 when he integrated all the data from every customer

- Building methods and how they can shape the change (IPD and Design & Build)

- Wh0 uses Building Cataylst? And how it felt in 2022 hitting the milestone of 600 projects and over $10 Billion

- The difference between the Silo approach and the System approach. And why we must adopt the system approach.

- How structured data and a systems approach can all but automate the preconstruction process (example of the Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital)

- And much much more - including the terrible Grand Rapids winters :-)

As always our guests are incredible advocates for the Preconstruction space and are open to any follow up questions. The best place to get Mark is at the Building Catalyst website: https://www.buildingcatalyst.com/

Alternatively here is Mark's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marksands/

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