KCB Boiler Room Podcast

Last November Michael Oh, founder and president of TSP Smart Spaces, gave a presentation in the Boiler Room titled, “Beyond AI: Visioning Design & Construction in 2030.” We had Michael back to the Boiler Room to follow up with questions, which we aired last week in Episode 3 of the KCB Boiler Room Podcast. This week we’re airing his original presentation on AI. If you’re in construction, design, architecture, or just want to better understand what artificial intelligence is, this pr...

Of all the panels we’ve hosted, this one on artificial intelligence and predicting what the future, felt like the one that was most in need of a follow up, especially because the speaker is one of the most down-to-earth while simultaneously brilliant and charming people you’ll ever come across, Michael Oh, founder and president of TSP Smart Spaces. The three moments in Michael’s presentation that we most wanted to revisit: the moment during his presentation when he talked about how few ...

Two years after a panel we hosted about why you should work with interior designers, we invited panelist and interior designer Kristen Rivoli back to the Boiler Room to reminisce, as well as to check in about how things have changed. The three clips we listened to from the original panel: Kevin’s strong feelings on interior designers (16:02); Kristen’s ideas on how to find a designer if you’re a builder (32:00); and the importance of being on the same page with everything befo...

Anything involving a discussion of our team is worth revisiting, so having an entire 90-minute panel on this subject in a room full of some of the best of the best in the Boston build-design community was an awesome experience worthy of numerous podcast episodes. For the first of this revisiting, we went with fellow builder, Eric Adams, of Adams + Beasley Associates. Winner of the Boston Globe’s “Top Places to Work” five years in a row, Eric has a lot to say about how to run a construction co...