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Eric Lamb on why construction is its own biggest enemy

Eric Lamb spent 45 years in construction. For 35 of them he sat on the founding management committee of DPR Construction, helping take it from a startup to a top-ten general contractor doing $14 billion a year. He's blunt about why an industry that can deliver an AI data center on an impossible schedule still crawls everywhere else, and the answer isn't permitting, labor, or technology.

He joins Jon Wright, Kanav Hasija, and Tanmaya Kala to answer an uncomfortable question. If this industry can deliver an AI data center on a schedule no one thought possible, why does everything else still…

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