“If we keep doing what we’ve been doing, then we’re going to get what we’ve got—and what we got ain’t working.”
ICON Co-founder/CEO and proud Texan Jason Ballard believes that a radically different approach to construction holds the key to creating affordable housing and solving homelessness for the entire globe.
This week on How I Built This Lab, Jason’s venturesome path to inventing advanced technology that prints disaster-resilient homes from concrete—at a fraction of the traditional time and cost. Plus, a look at the Moon for more of Earth’s building solutions...
This episode was researched and produced by Carla Esteves, with music by Ramtin Arablouei.
It was edited by John Isabella. Our audio engineer was Neal Rauch.
You can follow HIBT on X & Instagram, and email us at hibt@id.wondery.com.
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
HIBT Lab! Armbrust American: Lloyd Armbrust
Raising Cane's: Todd Graves
HIBT Lab! WeWork: Miguel McKelvey
Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
HIBT Lab! Colin and Samir: Colin Rosenblum and Samir Chaudry
Florentine Films: Ken Burns
Bonobos: Andy Dunn (2019)
Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams Home Furnishings: Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams
WordPress & Automattic: Matt Mullenweg
Sukhi’s Gourmet Indian Food: Sukhi Singh and Dalbir Singh
Discord: Jason Citron
Live Episode! Walker & Company: Tristan Walker (2019)
Live Episode! Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP: Angie & Dan Bastian (2019)
Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler
Leatherman Tool Group: Tim Leatherman
Dang Foods: Vincent and Andrew Kitirattragarn
Discovery Channel and Curiosity Stream: John Hendricks
M.M.LaFleur: Sarah LaFleur (2020)
Headspace: Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson (2019)
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
The emPOWERed Half Hour
Planet Money
Freakonomics Radio
The Daily
Kids Of The Future
Best of Storytime RNZ