Built Different

By Spring Street Management Group

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Episodes: 115

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Built Different is a daily podcast for developers, general contractors, and capital partners working in modular, volumetric, and off-site construction. No hype. No futurism. Just execution reality. Each episode breaks down what actually determines success or failure in factory-built projects: coordination gaps, design freeze timing, transportation risks, sequencing failures, financing mismatches, and the hidden costs no one models. This isn't a show about the promise of modular. It's about what happens when modules hit the jobsite—and what you need to get right before they do. Topics include: Why modular projects fail (and it's not the factory) Design freeze and its hidden costs Transportation as construction risk Site work that still controls the timeline Where modular actually saves money—and where it doesn't Sequencing, coordination, and the gaps between systems 3-4 minutes daily. Built for people who build. Brought to you by Spring Street Management Group.

Episode Date
Episode 116: An NFL Facility Built in Under 3 Months, Modular
Oct 28, 2026
Episode 115: UC Riverside's $299.6M Prefab Housing Win
Oct 26, 2026
Episode 114: Holtec's $2.1M Whistleblower Verdict and SMR Stakes
Oct 23, 2026
Episode 113: Prefab Interiors and the Schedule Compression Play
Oct 21, 2026
Episode 112: Meta's $6.6B Research Credit Fight
Oct 19, 2026
Episode 111: Icon's $200M Series D and the Titan Machine
Oct 16, 2026
Episode 110: DPR's $230M Prefab Kaiser Permanente Build in Colorado
Oct 14, 2026
Episode 109: HUD Bets on Factory-Built Multifamily
Oct 12, 2026
Episode 108: HUD's 7-Step Plan to Modernize Manufactured Housing Code
Oct 09, 2026
Episode 107: Skanska's First Mass Timber Lab at Cold Spring Harbor
Oct 07, 2026
Episode 106: TVA's First US Small Modular Reactor Permit
Oct 05, 2026
Episode 104: Construction's Cybersecurity Blind Spot
Sep 30, 2026
Episode 103: Mass Timber Cuts $2M From Western Washington U Build
Sep 28, 2026
Episode 102: NJ Fines Data Center $1M Over 123 MW of Unpermitted Power
Sep 25, 2026
Episode 101: CSA Z251: Canada's New Modular Design Standard
Sep 23, 2026
Episode 100: BOXABL Hits Nasdaq via SPAC
Sep 21, 2026
Episode 99: Intro Columbus Tops Out as Tallest Mass Timber Student
Sep 18, 2026
Episode 98: Sunbelt Modular's 4-Way Merger With Titan Group
Sep 16, 2026
Episode 97: The $124B Estimating Bottleneck
Sep 14, 2026
Episode 96: ProSet Modular Scales National Install Capacity
Sep 11, 2026
Episode 95: Data Center Boom Reshapes the ENR Top 400
Sep 09, 2026
Episode 94: Data Center Build Boom Rewrites GC Playbook
Sep 07, 2026
Episode 93: Modular Contracts: What Canadian Projects Get Wrong
Sep 04, 2026
Episode 92: Alora at Dry Creek and the Case for Repeatable Modular
Sep 02, 2026
Episode 91: Mind the Gap: Onsite vs. Offsite Interface Risk
Aug 31, 2026
Episode 90: Manufactured Housing's $2 Trillion Blind Spot
Aug 28, 2026
Episode 89: Hanford's $45B Waste Removal Enters New Phase
Aug 26, 2026
Episode 88: 1872's $15M Bet on AI-Native Steel Fabrication
Aug 24, 2026
Episode 87: MBI Sues Oregon Over Prevailing Wage Extraterritorial Reach
Aug 21, 2026
Episode 86: ESI's AI Flywheel: Semiconductors, Data Centers & Growth
Aug 19, 2026
Episode 85: Taylor Morrison's Offsite Math: 16% Premium to 0.7%
Aug 14, 2026
Episode 84: Structured Data Is the Real AI Moat in Construction
Aug 12, 2026
Episode 83: $234M Floods Into Construction Robotics and AI
Aug 10, 2026
Episode 82: AI Agents Targeting Preconstruction Scoping Gaps
Aug 07, 2026
Episode 81: Mass Timber in Hurricane Country: T3 FAT Village
Aug 05, 2026
Episode 80: Procore's $845M DroneDeploy Acquisition
Aug 03, 2026
Episode 79: Massachusetts Prompt Pay Ruling: What Contractors Must Know
Jul 31, 2026
Episode 78: Google's $205B CapEx Bet on AI Infrastructure
Jul 29, 2026
Episode 77: The 100 GW Power Gap Reshaping Data Center Construction
Jul 27, 2026
Episode 76: McKinsey's AI Automation Blueprint for Construction
Jul 24, 2026
Episode 75: Data Center Build Speed vs. Execution Risk
Jul 22, 2026
Episode 74: New York's Data Center Permitting Moratorium
Jul 20, 2026
Episode 73: Holtec Nuclear IPO and the SMR-300 Bet
Jul 17, 2026
Episode 72: MBI's $20.5B Modular Market Report
Jul 15, 2026
Episode 71: The Steel Chassis Is Going Away
Jul 13, 2026
Episode 70: Milwaukee's Tallest Mass Timber Tower Heads to Foreclosure
Jul 10, 2026
Episode 69: Suffolk and DPR Bet on AI Hiring Platform Skillit
Jul 08, 2026
Episode 68: Government-Backed Modular Factories Are Spreading
Jul 03, 2026
Episode 67: The Capital Stack Problem Stalling Modular's Scale
Jul 01, 2026
Episode 66: Suffolk's "Jobsite of the Future" AI Engineer Push
Jun 24, 2026
Episode 65: AI Data Centers Are Now City-Scale Infrastructure
Jun 22, 2026
Episode 64: Construction Confidence Holds While Rate Expectations Flip
Jun 19, 2026
Episode 63: Mass Timber Cracks the Lab Building Code at OSU
Jun 17, 2026
Episode 62: Cambria Hotel O'Fallon Sets Modules in 8 Days
Jun 15, 2026
Episode 61: Hagerty's Freedom to Build Act and Modular Reciprocity
Jun 12, 2026
Episode 60: Meta's $115M Craft Labor Bet for AI Data Centers
Jun 10, 2026
Episode 59: Prefab's Play in the Data Center Build Surge
Jun 08, 2026
Episode 58: Pennsylvania SB 908 Targets Modular Factory Wages
Jun 08, 2026
Counterparty Risk: What Happens If Your Factory Fails
Mar 20, 2026
Schedule Risk: Why Modular Projects Still Run Late
Mar 19, 2026
Design Liability: Who's Responsible When Modules Don't Work?
Mar 18, 2026
Labor Risk at the Factory: When Workers Walk
Mar 17, 2026
Supply Chain Risk: When Your Factory Can't Get Materials
Mar 16, 2026
Exit Strategies: How Modular Affects Disposition and Refinance
Mar 13, 2026
Tax Implications of Modular: Depreciation, Sales Tax, and Property Tax
Mar 12, 2026
Insurance Gaps in Modular: What Your Policy Doesn't Cover
Mar 11, 2026
Factory Financing: The Missing Piece of Modular Capital
Mar 10, 2026
Equity vs. Debt: How Capital Stack Changes for Modular
Mar 09, 2026
Commissioning Modular: Getting to Certificate of Occupancy
Mar 06, 2026
The Punchlist Problem: Why Modular Projects Finish Slow
Mar 05, 2026
Weather Windows and Set Sequencing
Mar 04, 2026
The GC's Role in Modular: What Changes and What Doesn't
Mar 03, 2026
The Set Day: What Actually Happens When Modules Arrive
Mar 02, 2026
The Finish Package Trade-Off: Factory vs. Field
Feb 27, 2026
Corridor and Core Strategy: Where Modular Gets Complicated
Feb 26, 2026
Bathroom Pods: The Module Within the Module
Feb 25, 2026
The Module Size Question: Bigger Isn't Always Better
Feb 24, 2026
Design for Modular: What Architects Get Wrong
Feb 23, 2026
What Has to Change for Modular to Scale
Feb 20, 2026
The Lender Education Problem
Feb 19, 2026
Why Developers Keep Saying No to Modular
Feb 18, 2026
The Factory Capacity Problem
Feb 17, 2026
Where Modular Is Actually Winning—and Where It's Not
Feb 16, 2026
The Break-Even Point: When Does Modular Make Sense?
Feb 13, 2026
When Modular Costs More—and Why That's Sometimes Fine
Feb 12, 2026
The Carry Cost Advantage Nobody Models
Feb 11, 2026
Why Repetition Drives Modular Economics
Feb 10, 2026
The Real Economics of Modular: What the Pro Forma Misses
Feb 09, 2026
Regulatory Risk: When the AHJ Doesn't Know Modular
Feb 06, 2026
The Interface Problem: Where Factory Meets Field
Feb 05, 2026
Transportation Risk: What Happens Between Factory and Site
Feb 04, 2026
Factory Concentration Risk: When Your Whole Project Lives in One Building
Feb 04, 2026
The Risks Nobody Talks About in Modular
Feb 04, 2026
Speed-to-Revenue: The Modular Finance Edge Nobody Measures
Jan 30, 2026
What Institutional Capital Actually Wants from Modular
Jan 29, 2026
Factory Deposits: Who Owns the Risk?
Jan 28, 2026
The Draw Schedule Problem in Modular Finance
Jan 27, 2026
Why Lenders Don't Understand Modular—Yet
Jan 26, 2026
Steel vs. Wood: What the Numbers Actually Show
Jan 23, 2026
Why Concrete Developers Are Looking at Steel Modular
Jan 22, 2026
Fire, Termite, and Moisture: The Durability Case for Steel
Jan 21, 2026
The Weight Problem: Why LGS Enables Taller Modular
Jan 20, 2026
Why Light Gauge Steel Over Wood in Modular
Jan 19, 2026
The Coordination Gap Between Factory and Field
Jan 16, 2026
Why Lenders Still Struggle with Modular Projects
Jan 15, 2026
Where Modular Actually Saves Money—and Where It Doesn't
Jan 14, 2026
Why Site Work Still Controls the Timeline
Jan 13, 2026
Why Transportation Is a Construction Risk, Not a Logistics Detail
Jan 12, 2026
The Hidden Cost of Design Freeze
Jan 09, 2026
Why Sequencing Determines Success or Failure
Jan 08, 2026
What No One Models in Modular Schedules
Jan 07, 2026
Why Early Design Decisions Matter More in Modular
Jan 06, 2026
The Factory Doesn't Remove Risk, It Relocates It
Jan 05, 2026
Speed Isn't the Advantage—Certainty Is
Jan 02, 2026
Why Modular Fails More Often Than It Should
Dec 31, 2025