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Our very own Andrew Ackerman will be on the panel!

Watch this. Fox 5 Atlanta sat down with our CEO KP Reddy to talk about how AI is changing construction across metro Atlanta — and what it means for the workforce, the housing shortage, and the next generation of builders. The part that doesn't get said enough: this industry is actively recruiting. There is a generation that wants to work with their hands, build real things, and see their work standing in the community for decades. As KP put it: "I think we have a generation coming through that wants to work with their hands. They want to do things." AI doesn't replace that. It sets those workers up to succeed from Day 1 — safer, faster, and with the full context of the project at their fingertips. That's the vision. Not a jobsite full of robots — a jobsite where every worker goes home. ▶️ Watch the segment: https://lnkd.in/ezjbC3S5 #ZeroRFI #Atlanta #Construction #WorkforceDevelopment #AIinConstruction #Fox5Atlanta

"100% of the time, at any given moment, construction is behind." That's not pessimism. That's KP Reddy — 30-year civil engineer and CEO of Zero RFI — telling the truth about the industry he's dedicated his career to fixing. The problem isn't lazy workers or bad planning. It's complexity at a scale human coordination alone can't manage. Hundreds of people. Dozens of businesses. Thousands of emails. All interdependent — and all moving faster than any one project manager can track. There's also a deeper issue: the experienced PMs who know how to hold it all together are retiring. A new grad needs 20–30 years to develop that instinct. AI closes that gap. Not by replacing judgment — by making it accessible on Day 1. KP's North Star for Zero RFI: reduce project timelines by 30% and budgets by 30%. When that happens across the industry, supply chain capacity opens up. Materials flow. And housing — real, affordable housing — becomes possible at scale. "This has been my life's work." — KP Reddy 📰 Atlanta News First ran the full story: https://lnkd.in/eFPudXGT #ZeroRFI #ConstructionTech #AI #AffordableHousing #AtlantaConstruction #BuildBetter

Atlanta is going to need nearly 400,000 new homes by 2035. We're already losing them faster than we can build them. That's not a housing crisis. That's a construction capacity crisis — and it's one our founder and CEO KP Reddy has spent 30 years trying to solve. The crews, the project managers, the coordination overhead — it all compounds at a scale the industry wasn't built to handle. Every rain delay, supply chain hiccup, and last-minute drawing change ripples across hundreds of interdependent timelines. As KP puts it: AI doesn't replace the people on the jobsite. It handles what buries them — reading thousands of pages of drawings and specs, tracking budget against timeline, flagging conflicts before they become delays. Projects using this approach have already cut documentation time by more than 50% and saved nearly 3,000 hours of coordination work. When you build faster and smarter, housing costs come down. Infrastructure gets delivered. A region of 8 million people has what it needs. Atlanta has always built its way through growth. This is how we do it at scale. 📰 Zero RFI featured in CBS News Atlanta this morning: https://lnkd.in/erhdZC44 #ZeroRFI #Atlanta #Construction #AIinConstruction #Housing #AtlantaGrowth #AEC

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Healthcare facilities are the most unforgiving buildings on earth. Active patient care doesn't pause for construction. Infection control requirements don't flex. Regulatory oversight doesn't look away. The margin for error that exists on other project types simply doesn't exist here. That's why we're deliberate about who leads this work — and why we're proud to welcome Jacob D'Albora, FMP, LEED AP to Zero RFI as our Director of Healthcare Practice. Jacob has spent his career at the intersection of digital construction and healthcare delivery. As a leader at VIATechnik, he built deep expertise in how technology changes what's possible on complex healthcare programs — from design coordination through construction execution and into operations. He holds credentials that matter in this sector: FMP, LEED AP, and active membership in both National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) and American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE). He speaks on the future of digital owner representation in healthcare. He has worked on programs where the physical environment directly affects clinical outcomes. At Zero, Jacob will lead our growing healthcare vertical — bringing rigorous, technology-enabled delivery intelligence to programs across the full project lifecycle, from preconstruction through occupancy and beyond. Healthcare is one of the most active, most capital-intensive, and most consequential construction sectors in the country. Zero is here for all of it. Welcome, Jacob! 🏥 #ZeroRFI #HealthcareConstruction #AEC #NewHire #ConstructionTechnology #OwnersRep

The person who has been powering mission critical infrastructure is now helping build it better. We're proud to announce that Kirk Hayes has joined Zero RFI as Director, Mission Critical Infrastructure. Kirk's career reads like a blueprint for understanding what mission critical actually means — not as a label, but as a lived operational reality. After an honorable discharge from the US Marine Corps, he spent 14 years in high-precision semiconductor and disk media manufacturing supporting Intel, IBM, TSMC, Samsung, and Seagate. From there, he moved into solar cell R&D, where he was awarded a US patent for thin-film photovoltaic manufacturing — an early signal of what was coming. Then came the big builds. As Director of EPC at SunEdison AG, Kirk delivered over 1 GW of utility-scale solar with $1B in capital responsibility. At Tesla Energy, he deployed commercial-scale battery storage projects behind the meter. At McKinsey & Company, he advised utilities, developers, and governments across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. At Recurrent Energy and FTC Solar, Inc, he led full EPC operations from engineering through construction to COD. Most recently at General Catalyst's EnergyCo, he has been developing 250 MW–1 GW solar, BESS, and hybrid power projects — specifically targeting the energy demands of AI infrastructure. In total: 4+ GW delivered. $5B+ in capital. What Kirk brings to Zero isn't a sector overview — it's operator-level pattern recognition from the inside of the most complex, highest-stakes construction programs being built right now. Hyperscaler campuses. Behind-the-meter power systems. The facilities where failure is not an option. At Zero, Kirk will lead our mission critical vertical — bringing structured, technology-enabled delivery intelligence to the programs the AI economy depends on. Welcome to the team, Kirk. The work has never mattered more. ⚡ #ZeroRFI #MissionCritical #NewHire #AIInfrastructure #Construction #EPC

Proud to see BuildingWorks showing up in Nashville. The 2nd Healthcare Facility Design and Build Summit brings together the people making decisions about how healthcare facilities get built, operated, and maintained. That's exactly where BuildingWorks belongs. Healthcare buildings are among the most complex to document. Multiple systems, strict compliance requirements, and facility teams that need instant access to accurate information from day one. BuildingWorks has spent 25 years and 500+ projects solving that problem: 100% verified, organized, searchable documentation for every system in the building. BuildingWorks is building what comes next for healthcare facility documentation. Complete records at handoff. A living platform that supports operations long after construction ends. If you're in Nashville June 24-25, find them there.

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