Podcast: VDC Workflows, Field Realities, and Model Handoffs

Augmenta’s Senior Application Engineer, Chris Summers, joined Jared Christman from Big State Electric on Episode #118 of NECA’s Innovation Overload podcast.

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The discussion brought together two professionals with deep experience in electrical construction and VDC workflows. Chris spent over 30 years in the electrical industry, including 7 years in VDC, before joining Augmenta.

The conversation focused on familiar challenges across electrical projects, including:

• The gap between design and field execution
• Models that are difficult to carry through to installation
• Coordination issues that surface late in the process
• The importance of field buy-in

A recurring theme was the disconnect that can occur during handoff. Models are often built for coordination, but not always aligned with how work is actually installed.

The episode also touches on prefabrication workflows, routing decisions, and how teams think about constructability during modeling.

For those working in BIM, VDC, or preconstruction, the discussion reflects many of the realities teams encounter across projects.

You can listen to the full episode here.