It feels terribly nerdy to say is the management end of things.

It's learning how to play to the strengths and weaknesses of your crews and your suppliers

and your subcontractors and how to perceive things going wrong before they do.

Welcome to the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast, a regular discussion with building industry professionals.

This is Senior Editor Patrick McComb. I'm joined by production manager Ben Bogie for Colbert Building and producer Jeff Rose.

In addition into managing multiple projects for a Colbert Building, Ben presents at national trade shows demonstrating best building practices.

You can find the Fine Home Building Pro Talk podcast and the original

Fine Homebuilding podcast at Fine Homebuilding.com slash podcast. You can also leave feedback and ask

questions there too. Ben, thank you so much for joining us this morning. My pleasure. Happy to be

here. Are you guys healthy? Everything okay? Yeah, family's well. Everybody in the

business as well. Yeah, everybody's doing okay. Are you guys able to work normally, or is that changed

for y'all? We had the fortunate position that when the COVID pandemic really started to pop up,

as a company, we're in a position that we could kind of pump the brakes and step back from projects for a little bit just to see how things played out. So we've taken a bit of a self-imposed hiatus, but that's kind of wrapping up for us and we are starting to get back in the field. We had a large project where we had single subs that were able to keep carrying on with some of the work on the project without us there just doing general oversight.

So it's, yeah, we're not working normally, but we're making our way back towards working normally, I think.

Do you think that the pace of construction is going to pick up with the rapidity that it stopped?

No. No. Because people are scared? I think it's partially that. I think we have a lot of, you know, outside market forces around us. You know, supply chains are being slowed down. People's workloads are going

to shift as we get back into things. So it's going to be scheduling is going to become an issue.

So I think we're going to have some stumbling blocks there. But I'm optimistic that things will

pick back up rapidly. Can you tell us exactly what you do for Colbert Building?

What is your role there? Are you hands-on?

So my business card says production manager and I guess what that means is when a project comes out of the office, though I do have input on it before it comes out of the office,

I'm the person that makes it happen.

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