Built Different
Episode 97: The $124B Estimating Bottleneck
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Deloitte's 2026 Engineering & Construction Industry Outlook projects $124 billion in lost construction output due to labor shortages — but a case is being made that the real bottleneck sits upstream of the field entirely, inside estimating departments that are already at capacity before crews ever mobilize. This episode examines the preconstruction capacity argument, the AI tools being…