Construction Diaries Part 2: Tips for Young Professionals

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Description:

As a continuation of our last episode, Construction Diaries: Lessons Learned From SWA’s Inspection & Verification Experts, Dylan gears his questions toward young professionals – specifically, those just starting out in the field or those aspiring to work in the field as a construction inspector or verifier.

Throughout the episode, the group provides some words of wisdom, including how to handle intimidation and animosity in the field, how to maximize time spent traveling from site to site, and more. Lastly, each guest ends the episode by sharing a piece of advice that they wish they had when they started their careers.

Episode Guests:

Dylan Martello (Moderator)

Senior Building Systems Consultant

Jenny Powell

Building Systems Director

Joe Andracchio

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Michael Schmidt

Building Systems Consultant

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Episode Resources:

Words of Advice in Ten Words or Less!

• Pursue an internship
• Don’t be afraid to say you don’t know something
• Ask questions
• Don’t limit yourself

Interested in a career at Steven Winter Associates? View our open positions here.

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Episode Sponsors:

SWA is a proud sponsor of this year’s Green Building Showcase Awards Program & Celebration, the premier annual event celebrating the successes of the Massachusetts green building community. Hosted by Built Environment Plus – a membership-based nonprofit driving the sustainable and regenerative design, construction, and operations of the built environment – this year’s showcase will take place October 27th, 2022 at Harvard University’s Science & Engineering Complex – last year’s Green Building of the Year Award winner.

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About Buildings and Beyond

Buildings and Beyond is a production of Steven Winter Associates. We provide energy, green building, and accessibility consulting services to improve the built environment. For more information, visit www.swinter.com.

Hosts

Robb Aldrich | Kelly Westby

Production Team

Heather Breslin | Alex Mirabile | Dylan Martello

Episode Transcript

Transcript coming soon!

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