.png)
Deliberate Words
by Conspectus, Inc. - decision managers, word masters, aggregators. There is tremendous power in a word that is perfectly placed at the best location, at the best time, during the design and construction process of a project. Deliberate words can manage success, build trust, and provide transparency that every member of the project team craves. As decision managers of the team, Conspectus explores the notion of how transparency transforms three main components of every project: behavior, content, and outcomes, through the appropriate usage of words. Behavior of every participant, is the foundation communication and collaboration, through deliberate words. It will transform the team, and build strong relationships. Content, the documentation built on these relationships, containing deliberate words, is then transformed. The outcome is a successful project, with a legacy of ultimate collaboration. Join us as we chat with members of the architectural, engineering, construction, and owner communities to learn how deliberate word shape their contributions, their projects, and their world! Through these conversations, words aggregate decisions, and transforms perspectives on transparency in the decision-making process.
Deliberate Words
From RFI's to Results: Inside the CURT Dialogue, featuring Construction Users Round Table Members
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
A conversation captured at the Construction Users Round Table.
CURT members don’t gather to admire the industry as it is, we gather to challenge it. Throughout the year, owners come together to wrestle with contracting strategies, team dynamics, technical risk, global pressures, and the realities shaping how projects actually get delivered.
This is the Deliberate Words podcast, In this episode, I’m filling in for David Stutzman and joining Steve Gantner, leaders in Conspectus, the specification company….where words have a power that can create trust, transparency, and transform the process and can significantly impact the success of a construction project and team!
At the September 2025 member meeting, we had the opportunity to bring The immersive collaborative experience to the room. LEGO bricks on the table, assumptions off the table. What followed wasn’t just a workshop, it was dialogue. Candid. Constructive. Occasionally uncomfortable in the best way.
Sitting down afterward with CURT members: Herb Strong of HazTek, Andy Browning and Fred Marsh of Duke Energy, and Nicholas Johnson of Kahua as participants, critics, colleagues, and friends reminded us why these conversations matter. As presenters, the feedback was invaluable. As CURT members, the reflection was even more powerful.
And this is just the beginning.
Next up: the CURT National Conference in Orlando, February 3rd. The conversations continue and only get better.