Building What Matters

Building What Matters

Building What Matters brings you into the room with the leaders deciding how schools, hospitals, and major infrastructure projects are built—and whether communities get what they've been promised, on time and on budget. Join host Matt Allen, Executive Vice President and Chief Client Officer at McKinstry, for candid conversations with the executives accountable to their students, patients, and communities—long before breaking ground, and long after the ribbon-cutting. New episodes every two weeks. Follow Building What Matters wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe to the McKinstry YouTube channel to watch full conversations.

Episodes

October 13, 2026 • 52 mins

David Mortenson has spent his career thinking about what comes next in construction and what it takes to keep evolving as the industry changes. 

As chairman of Mortenson, one of America’s largest builders, he’s helping shape new ways of designing, building and delivering projects. 

In this conversation, David talks about the lessons construction can learn from manufacturing, the company’s investment in R&a...

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Dave Sabey has spent more than two decades building data centers, long enough to watch the industry go from a niche bet to the backbone of the AI economy.

Along the way, he picked up a few convictions that still guide him: that fiber-optic cable would beat copper wire, that a project only succeeds if the community around it comes out ahead too, and that the country is going to need a lot more power than it currently has.

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Seattle Children’s CEO Dr. Christopher Longhurst wants to reach a million patients across a million square miles.

That kind of scale will take more than doctors and hospital beds. It will require smarter technology, better-connected data and a new approach to how care is delivered.

In this conversation, Dr. Longhurst explains why he believes AI can make medicine more human, how technology will help extend pediatric care acros...

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What does it really take to deliver the schools, hospitals, and infrastructure communities depend on? 

In this trailer, host Matt Allen—Executive Vice President and Chief Client Officer at McKinstry—introduces Building What Matters, a new podcast featuring candid conversations with the executives responsible for turning ambitious plans into buildings that serve people for decades. 

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