Send us Fan Mail

Return-to-office may dominate the headlines, but the biggest changes in corporate office are happening behind the walls.

In Part 1 of this two-part episode of The Construction Insiders Podcast, host Jessica Busch sits down with Greg Williams of Cumming Group and David West of Seneca Group to explore why office renovation projects are becoming more complex and costly than many owners anticipate.

The conversation examines the shift from office expansion to workplace optimization, the continued flight to quality, and the growing use of tenant improvements and adaptive reuse to support changing business needs. Greg and David explain why converting traditional office space into R&D, testing, or higher-intensity environments often requires significant upgrades to power, HVAC, data infrastructure, and building systems.

They also discuss one of the industry's toughest project scenarios: renovating occupied workplaces while maintaining employee productivity and business operations.

Topics include:

• Office renovation and office remodeling trends
• Commercial office renovation challenges
• Tenant improvements and workplace strategy
• Adaptive reuse of corporate office space
• Flight to quality in commercial real estate
• Occupied renovation projects
• Infrastructure, code, and MEP considerations

Send us Fan Mail

In part two of this healthcare facilities master planning conversation, the hard reality sets in: even the best master plan fails if stakeholders aren't aligned on what it's supposed to solve. Jessica Busch returns with Bill Foulkes and Judd Orlando to tackle the three-layered framework that actually works, the assumption misalignments that derail projects before ground breaks, and why your master plan might be dead on arrival if you're not sequencing your consulting partners strategically. They'll walk through common failure modes. Grandiose visions that blow past the capital envelope, physician-level engagement gone wrong, and how to translate infrastructure risk into C-suite language. With healthcare margins tightening and capital budgets shrinking, the conversation turns to redevelopment over iconic buildings, the looming uncertainty of AI's impact on facility needs, and the single most important step to get right if you're starting this journey.

Send us Fan Mail

Most healthcare leaders walk into a master planning process expecting a blueprint. What they're missing is a baseline, and it's costing them before construction ever begins. Jessica Busch sits down with Bill Foulkes, Executive Vice President at Cumming Group, and Judd Orlando, Executive Director of Facility Planning and Infrastructure at City of Hope, to unpack what facilities master planning actually is and why so many organizations get it wrong. Bill and Judd break down why volume-based planning beats design-based thinking, what a real asset baseline reveals that leaders don't want to see, and how to make infrastructure risk land with a C-suite that didn't come up through facilities. This episode reframes master planning as a living framework, not a binder on a shelf.