384 Too Tired For Precon, Too Broke To Skip It
Modern Craftsman
Modern Craftsman
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🗓️ 8 December 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Nick and Tyler break down how they use preconstruction to protect the architect's vision, keep clients on budget, and avoid the usual bid and bleed disaster. They get into real numbers, value engineering that is not just stripping scope, and how to track the everyday inefficiencies that quietly kill your profit.
Show Notes:
00:00 Hidden inefficiencies
00:18 Precon and race recap
01:18 Sponsor break
08:47 Tyler's race story
16:12 What precon really is
18:42 Design build vs precon
22:10 Tier one pricing
29:22 Why plans don't get built
33:41 Architect types and bids
41:18 When budget kills design
47:48 Lead the client
55:49 Every business is unique
1:03:32 Pricing the unknown
1:12:08 Job costing that works
1:22:11 Wrap up
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| 0:00.0 | Things that happen on a day-to-day basis that are going to create inefficiencies in your workflow and be able to capture them throughout your job costs because everyone's going to experience them. |
| 0:11.4 | Nobody is insulated and protected from that. |
| 0:16.8 | Tyler, we are, you know, I don't know. |
| 0:21.6 | I want to, so I had a call with an architect earlier today and I want to talk about, it was the first time I felt as though I fully communicated what we do, how we do it, why we do it. |
| 0:39.3 | And so much so that he was basically regurgitating it back to me and I was sold. |
| 0:44.3 | Dude, that's the best. |
| 0:46.3 | I felt great. |
| 0:47.3 | So I want to dig into that. |
| 0:49.3 | It's centered around pre-construction, but primarily, you know, how, you know, |
| 0:55.7 | how we're leveraging that to be an advocate |
| 0:58.9 | for our client and the architect. |
| 1:01.9 | And I do get a little heated with some architecture, |
| 1:05.0 | architect comments and I might pick on a few of them. |
| 1:09.2 | But that's all, that's all part of the conversation. But before we get |
| 1:13.6 | into that, I want to talk about your race. Let's do that. Yeah. Yeah, let's do that first. I'm still, |
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