Cross-Sections
Cross-Sections brings you bite-size conversations with host Anthony Gude as he chats with colleagues and leaders in the construction and industrial ecosystem. Modular construction has grown tremendously in the past few years, leading many to believe it’s a new innovation in the building industry. In reality, it has been around for quite awhile, but has only…
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How to Maximize Growth In The Modular Construction Network
Cross-Sections brings to you bite-size conversations with host Anthony Gude as he chats with colleagues and leaders in the construction and industrial ecosystem. On this episode of Cross-Sections, Host Anthony Gude talked with Colby Swanson, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Operations Director, Modular Mobilization Coalition, and Michael Palmer, the Operations Director. The Modular Mobilization Coalition (MMC) is…
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Can AI Plan Construction Projects Better Than Humans?
Cross-Sections brings to you bite-size conversations with host Anthony Gude as he chats with colleagues and leaders in the construction and industrial ecosystem. Building was one of man’s earliest skills. Thousands of years later, it’s still essential to life, but the construction industry is complex, with many factors influencing it. However, technology is simplifying and optimizing processes, specifically…
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Inside the World of Mass Timber
Cross-Sections brings to you bite-size conversations with host Anthony Gude, as he chats with colleagues and leaders in the construction and industrial ecosystem On this episode of Cross-Sections, Host Anthony Gude talked with Ricky McLain, PE, SE, Senior Technical Director – Tall Wood WoodWorks™ – Wood Products Council about the projects they have going on…
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From Onsite Construction to Offsite Modular Solutions
Cross-Sections brings to you bite-size conversations with host Anthony Gude as he chats with colleagues and leaders in the construction and industrial ecosystem. Gude spoke with Brandon Searle, The Innovation Director of the Offsite Construction Research Center at the University of New Brunswick, which studies the “Current trends in the construction industry reflect the…
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Cross-Sections: A New Industrialized Construction Podcast
Cross-Sections brings to you bite-size conversations with host Anthony Gude, as he chats with colleagues and leaders in the construction and industrial ecosystem. Gude spoke with John Pugh of Pugh Management, a boutique real estate development, consulting, and investment firm. They play an advisory role to help maximize the opportunities and investment for landowners. Gude…
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From Peer-to-Peers to Paper Wars: Inside the Daily Grind of Fighting Insurance Denials
Insurance denials have quietly become one of the most powerful forces shaping American healthcare, not through better outcomes but through a steady tightening of what insurers are willing to cover and when they’ll say so. The real scandal isn’t just that claims get rejected—it’s that the system rewards obstruction, pressuring hospitals to spend…
Navigating the Power Differential: A Physician’s Perspective
Healthcare in the U.S. often feels less like a covenant and more like a negotiation conducted on a tilted table, where insurers hold the rulebook and patients hold the receipt for their pain. The “two-midnight rule” and similar fixes were meant to tame arbitrary denials, yet the system keeps sprouting fresh loopholes because…
Navigating the Denial Pipeline: How Medicare Advantage Plans Reshape Access to Care
Medicare Advantage was sold as a smarter, more efficient way to care for seniors, but too often the efficiency seems to land on the wrong side of the patient–provider relationship. When plans deny or delay needed services through opaque rules and weak oversight, beneficiaries feel it first—in missed therapies, postponed procedures, and a…
Rebecca Interview: When Peer-to-Peer Reviews Stop Being About the Patient
Behind the sterile labels of “inpatient” versus “observation” care is a messy reality: clinicians and insurers often enter peer-to-peer reviews without a shared rulebook, turning what should be a clinical dialogue into a box-checking exercise. The speaker’s frustration points to a broader problem in U.S. healthcare utilization management—decisions about coverage can feel pre-decided,…