Dillon recaps a grueling eight-week travel stint — from recruiting at Rose-Hulman to client meetings in Houston, a design-build summit in Chicago featuring a retired Green Beret's Hurricane Helene relief keynote, and the NECA expo in Vegas with Nick Saban. Along the way: lessons on moving the ball forward every day, adapting when PG&E cuts your power for 48 hours, why peer entrepreneur groups are a game-changer, and how Indeed became an unexpected hiring win.

Prefabrication promises lower costs and higher margins — but only if you have the scale to justify the multi-million-dollar investment. In this episode, we unpack the realities of starting a prefab division: the equipment costs, facility requirements, and the project-specific variables that make conduit racks and strut assemblies anything but cookie-cutter. We also explore the "haves and have-nots" dynamic — how larger contractors leverage fabrication to win more bids at better margins, and what smaller shops can realistically prefab today without breaking the bank.

Most electrical foremen are still grinding through layout drawings in Bluebeam, leaving them no time to actually plan and execute the job. In this episode, we explore how Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) is transforming electrical construction — from 3D conduit modeling and multi-trade BIM coordination to browser-based model walkthroughs your whole team can access from an iPad in the field. Learn how handing layout to a VDC team frees your foremen to do what they do best, and how it all feeds into the prefab conversation.