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W/C 30th March 2026

The year is in full swing and as we close out the first quarter of 2026, here’s what we’ve been up to this month.

This months’ Monthly Megabyte:

And of course, Owen’s new addition to his family. Congrats Owen on number 3!

Let’s go.

Exactly 4 years after releasing our first Bricks & Bytes podcast episode, we are excited to announce our first event.

On April 21st 2026, Bricks & Bytes is bringing Professor Martin Fischer from Stanford University to London for a one-off evening with construction's senior leadership.

Public release invites will be going out and these will be HIGHLY limited.

If you cannot get a ticket to this one, there will be more like this in the future.

We are excited to be partnering with Foundamental to bring you in-depth conversations from the leading CEO’s and business leaders building the future of the construction industry.

These conversations contain lessons that are never published.

Expect to hear the hard lessons that normally stays locked inside boardrooms, job sites and founder circles, covering real decisions, real trade-offs and the thinking behind them. No conference polish. No soundbites. Just the stuff you can't get anywhere else. All free, all on-demand.

Expect to hear from CEO’s of major construction companies, consultancies and tech companies.

Further announcement and link coming soon.

Coming April 2026.

If you're a contractor, you already know procurement is broken. But you might not know how broken. The industry spends roughly $600 billion a year on materials in the U.S. alone, and our research shows 5–10% of that is consumed by the bureaucracy of buying.

That’s before you even account for the 5% average overpayment most firms don't know they're making. On 2–3% margins, that's the difference between profit and loss.

This report maps the entire procurement workflow step by step, identifies exactly where the hidden costs concentrate, breaks down what technology actually exists today (and what's still vapourware), and gives you a practical buyer's framework you can take into your next vendor conversation.

We interviewed technology founders, surveyed construction professionals across the U.S. and UK, and dug into the data on tariffs, labour shortages, and regulatory shifts that have made the old way of buying materials unsustainable.

Whether you're running a $20M subcontractor or a billion-dollar GC, this is the procurement briefing your leadership team needs to read.

Sign up for early access.

We're excited to announce that Breadcrumb is the official headline sponsor of Bricks & Bytes for the next six months.

If you don't know them, Breadcrumb is a construction safety platform built for the field — think site access, inductions, permits, and compliance, all in one place. They're growing fast and we've been impressed with what they're building.

You'll be seeing their name a lot. They're backing everything we do — the podcast, the newsletters, the shorts, our live streams, and our intelligence reports. That kind of commitment from a sponsor means we can keep investing in the content and research that (we hope) makes your inbox worth opening.

A quick note on how we pick sponsors: we only work with companies we'd genuinely recommend to our audience. Breadcrumb fits that test. If you're running sites and still juggling safety compliance across spreadsheets and paper forms, they're worth a look.

Over one million workers across 50,000+ projects globally already have Breadcrumb in their pocket.

Thanks for being here. And thanks to Breadcrumb for backing what we're building.

Learn more about Breadcrumb → https://www.breadcrumb.co/en-au

That’s all this month.