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Build+Revitalize podcast

Welcome to the Build+Revitalize podcast, produced by SME.

The Build+Revitalize podcast is a direct reflection of SME’s passion and commitment to solving problems and building better communities around us. We are proud to be your go-to source for insights on challenges and emerging trends in the AEC industry.

In each episode, we will be joined by our partners and friends for conversations about the issues facing the AEC industry today. Together we will tackle topics ranging from hot markets to employee engagement and emerging technologies, while also sharing success stories and lessons learned. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google or wherever you stream, and follow @SMEUSA on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter so you don’t miss an episode!

MAY 2023 SERIES 6 EPISODE 20

20. Environmental Due Diligence (3/3) - Jason Cheney, David Guevara, and Bret Stuntz

Jason Cheney, David Guevara, Bret Stuntz

The past two episodes of the Build+Revitalize podcast have provided helpful insight on the importance of environmental due diligence. In our third episode, Jason Cheney, Dave Guevara and Bret Stuntz are back to tackle insurance recovery and alternative funding methods for brownfields projects.

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In our third episode, Jason Cheney, Dave Guevara and Bret Stuntz are back to tackle insurance recovery and alternative funding methods for brownfields projects.

Jason Cheney, Bret Stuntz, Dave Guevara, and Arthur Siegal are back on the Build+Revitalize podcast series on the importance of environmental due diligence. They are picking up where they left off, with a conversation about the importance of due care and how to avoid the risks associated with property acquisition.

The Build+Revitalize podcast is back with a look at the importance of environmental due diligence prior to property transactions, and the value that experienced environmental and legal consultants bring to the process.

For this year's WIC Week 2023, we took the best moments from our Gender Inclusion in the AEC Industry podcast series and put them into one episode. Ali Frye returns as the host, outlining why gender inclusion is important in our industry.

In this final episode of the building materials group careers series, we're happy to be joined by landscape architect and roofing consultant Lloyd Dubisky. And SMEs own architect, Daredevil and masonry expert, Amanda Cassidy.

Nate and Tyler started their careers as co-ops at SME and after trying their hands at a few different services, they each decided the building materials group was the best fit for them.

Tom and Jessica are an engineer and an architect respectively. Both Tom and Jessica are building enclosure consultants, and both are in the prime of their careers building their reputations in their field.

In our newest series, "Consultants Aren't Born, They're Made", we welcome several members of SME's Building Materials Group to share their unique journeys as professionals, and what they found when discovering consulting as the destination.

We wrap up our series on the value of a Co-Op experience for students pursuing engineering careers with a conversation about the transition from Co-Op to a professional engineer.

In part two of our three-part series on the value of a Co-Op experience for students pursuing engineering careers, Aaron talks with Case Vanderheide and Danielle Rand.

Our three-part series on the value of a Co-Op experience for students pursuing engineering careers starts with Dr. Steven Sachs and Tyler Kimmel from the University of Pittsburgh.

In part two of our Leaving a Legacy episode with SME CEO Mark Kramer and guest host Randy Wilburn, we hear how Mark led the company through the financial meltdowns of 2008 and 2009.

Welcome to the Build+Revitalize podcast series Leaving a Legacy.

Our series on gender inclusion in the AEC industry wraps up with a conversation on how companies can implement inclusion initiatives in their own firms.

In this episode, Ali keeps the conversation on gender inclusion in the AEC industry going with Mark Kramer

We begin our series on gender inclusion in the AEC industry with resident expert on inclusion, Lauline Mitchell.

We will wrap up our series on the warehousing and logistics market with with a conversation on financing.

In this episode, Ali talks to Jason Salazar, Vice President of estimating with Oliver Hatcher Construction, about what it takes to actually build these large facilities.

Wondering just how these large distributors choose the right community for their next project? Kevin Hegg joins the podcast to help us understand just that.

To kick off our series on the recent boom in the warehousing and logistics market, Ali talks to Kenyetta Hairston-Bridges.

The Build+Revitalize podcast is a direct reflection of SME’s passion and commitment to solving problems and building better communities around us.