Awesome video Pawalshe. Some things that stood out for me:
- they plan to set up innovation/customer experience centres in Germany and Dubai.
- prefab less effective the further away from the factory they go
- Scott and Mike on good terms, same team, rather than hostile competitors
- Mike working 15-16 hours per day. See, robots don't just take jobs, they create work! Maybe justifying his salary to viewers. Great speaker.
- Little timber in Middle East, all concrete and blocks.
- People with power to adopt HX are under pressure to improve safety, productivity and environment
- Mike used "Wall On Call" as a synonym for WaaS
- customers will pay by square metre and FBR can tell them upfront when they'll arrive, time taken, wastage, cost
- $13 trillion industry, but 13% wasted through inefficiency
- people in the industry worry about face, looking like fools in front of peers, what others think. This creates hesitancy to change
- VERY difficult gaining access to people with the power to adopt HX, effect change, but
less of a problem nowSo there you go, people are stuck in their ways, but as soon as one or two try HX and gain a competitive advantage, others will have to adopt or fall by the wayside.
Meanwhile, in NZ, there's a shortage of construction workers (and the worry is it will get worse with the opening of the trans-Tasman bubble), a housing crisis, and timber is in such short supply that products are being repurposed for jobs for which they were not intended.
