Fixing Existing Infrastructure, The Changing Regulatory Environment, AI, & Are Engineers & Architects Going Extinct?

In this conversation, Miles and Scott discuss the history of infrastructure in the US in the 1940s, increasing complexity of building regulations, AI’s impact on construction projects, improving existing buildings, and the shortage of engineers and architects in the US and the impacts of outsourcing.

Where is there more opportunity and job security for A&E’s? Should we be focusing on new and exciting projects, or fixing and maintaining existing infrastructure?

Are existing projects more important than new projects?

Is AI going to take our jobs or create new jobs?

Are A&E’s excited about their work?

Chapters

00:48 How we got here (1640s)

01:18 The Growing Code Industry and Regulatory Environment

12:12 The Potential Impact of Outsourcing Engineering Work

25:27 The Importance of Maintaining and Improving Existing Buildings and Infrastructure

Keywords

US infrastructure, history, regulatory environment, engineering, architecture, code industry, timber-framed buildings, shortage of engineers, outsourcing, AI, maintaining existing buildings

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