The Contractor's Playbook: Built2Win

From Mixing Mud to Harvard: Why He Says Orange County Is the Hardest Place in Florida to Build

At 16 he was sleeping on a friend's couch after climbing in through the basement window. At 22 he was mixing mud and carrying chimney liners on a masonry crew in Franklin

He Couldn't Afford a Hammer. Then He Built a $100M Construction Company.

There's a hammer hanging in the lobby with a piece of PVC and duct tape where the handle should be. "We could not afford a new hammer."   Chris Coghlan sits down with B

Purple heart recipient: MASTERCLASS on Running a Construction Crew That Never Quits

Michael Waldrop starts this episode with a question most contractors can't answer: who cleans the port-o-lets on your jobsite? It sounds like a small thing. He'll tell y

80-Year Construction Company: MASTERCLASS on Selling a Product the Market Said NO To

The best job FINFROCK ever lost ended up being the one that gave the company time to rethink how parking garages should be built. What followed was a decades-long transit

NFL Hall of Famer/5X All Pro, Now A Construction CEO: "I Never Got Comfortable. Not One Season"

Five straight All-Pro seasons ended on one Monday night hit in December 1987. The nerve never regenerated. Four years later Dwight Stephenson started a construction compa

A $1 Million Dollar Bust, No Change Order, And the Builder Who Paid It Anyways

An estimator took the roads off on the wrong scale — a $1 million bust in asphalt and rock. Wal-Rose Site Development ate it, finished the job, and told the builder at th

28 Years, One company, 5,000 Owners: Nothing At Hensel Phelps Is Handed To You

He watched the Pentagon burn from a rooftop three miles away and saw a fighter jet come out of nowhere to turn back a news helicopter. Hensel Phelps would go on to renova

Kiewit Exec: Professional Baseball Bred Him for Success At This $18B Construction Powerhouse

Sixth-round pick. Oakland A’s. 1996. Nick Sosa made it as far as Double-A before baseball ended and he had to start over. Today, he’s a vice president with Kiewit Infrast

Billionaire Founder: MASTERCLASS on Starting a Construction Company From Scratch!

His wife was six months pregnant with their first child when he quit a good job to start on his own. "I was scared of failing — but the fear of not trying was bigger." C