Steel toe consulting specializes in technology consulting that bridges the gap between virtual design and the realities of manufacturing and construction. Specializing in MEP trades STC draws upon industry experts and years of experience to both select and implement the construction technology’s that best fit the way you want to build and reflect the best practices for the types of projects you take on. We also work with your shop and field teams to leverage technology and data to enhance efficiency.
Steel Toe Consulting
Steel Toe Consulting offers expert consulting for software providers in the construction industry. We help enhance customer success and align your software with construction-specific standards and practices.
White-Glove Services
We work directly with your construction clients to integrate your software into their tech stack, ensuring it fits their workflows and industry needs.
Software Stack Alignment
We ensure your software integrates smoothly with other tools common in construction, optimizing workflows and extending capabilities.
Custom Integration Services
We develop custom integrations tailored to the construction industry, enhancing your software’s effectiveness in real-world applications.
Ideation and Roadmapping
We partner with you to brainstorm solutions and create roadmaps that address construction industry challenges, helping expand your software’s impact.
Construction-Focused Software Provider Consulting
Software development services
At Steel Toe Consulting, we specialize in software development with a focus on construction technology, blending industry expertise with a gaming mindset. Our developers are as comfortable working in C# as they are in Unity, ensuring versatile and innovative solutions.
Parallel Development
We work alongside your existing team, allowing them to concentrate on core products while Steel Toe handles additional apps or new functionalities. This parallel approach accelerates development without overburdening your resources.
Enterprise Project Delivery
When your in-house solutions need extra support, Steel Toe provides the resources and expertise to enhance your project. From setting up critical processes to offering ongoing guidance, we ensure your project's success.
Product Design and Development
Steel Toe Consulting collaborates with your team to design and develop custom software solutions tailored to your specific needs. We ensure seamless integration with existing systems, working closely with all stakeholders to deliver high-quality products that meet your business goals.
Ideation and Roadmapping
As your partner in innovation, we help you ideate and develop roadmaps that extend your capabilities, targeting specific industry challenges with tailored solutions.
Speaking, Teaching, and Workshops
Speaking, Teaching, and Workshops
At Steel Toe Consulting, Jonathan Marsh delivers dynamic presentations, workshops, and training sessions focused on construction technology, process improvement, and understanding fabrication. With over two decades of experience in the AEC industry, Jonathan provides valuable insights into emerging technologies and practical applications tailored to the construction trades.
Key Topics
Process Mapping for Leadership: Techniques for creating effective process maps that improve project outcomes and team communication.
Technology Stack Mapping: Practical steps for understanding and communicating your company’s technology resources, bridging the gap between technical and non-technical teams.
AI and Machine Learning for Contractors: A deep dive into what contractors need to know about AI and machine learning. This presentation focuses on practical applications, potential impacts on the industry, and how to integrate these technologies into existing workflows.
Emerging Technologies for Specialty Contractors: A comprehensive overview of the latest trends in robotics, process automation, and reality capture, and how they impact the construction industry.
BIM and Offsite Construction: Exploring the role of BIM in enhancing project coordination, efficiency, and safety, with a focus on offsite construction methods.
Reality Capture and Digital Layout: Guidance on leveraging reality capture tools and techniques, even for firms without a BIM department.
Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA): Practical strategies for implementing DfMA in construction, drawing parallels with manufacturing to improve workflows.
Interactive Workshops:
Jonathan’s workshops are hands-on and designed to engage participants in real-world scenarios. From exploring construction lifecycle phases in a "Minecraft edition" workshop to concept talks that encourage audience participation, these sessions provide a unique and impactful learning experience.
Whether you're looking for a keynote speaker, a hands-on workshop, or a focused training session, Jonathan’s presentations offer valuable takeaways that drive innovation and efficiency in the construction industry.
Interested in construction tech? Tune into the Construction Dorks, Dork-Cast. It's designed to capture the real, unfiltered conversations many of us have after a productive day at a conference. Join Jon, Jeff, Travis, and Trent as they sit down with industry experts and tech enthusiasts to dive into the realities of construction technology. It's always an engaging and insightful conversation you won't want to miss.
Contractor services
Whether you are starting up a modern fabrication shop, Virtual Design & Construction, BIM, extending technologies to the job-site or just looking at digitizing some of your processes, the first steps are critical to achieving success. SteelToe Consulting offers first step services to help you select and implement the technology that is best for your company, and offer clear returns on your investment.
Beyond the first steps, SteelToe can help your company refine and add-on to the technologies already in use at your company with a wide variety of next step services.
Assessment
To implement technology takes more than a budget, your business needs to be ready for the technologies you want to implement. By studying your workflows, processes, manpower and equipment, STC can help your business select technologies that match your business technology readiness level. STC will also work with you to develop a training and investment strategy to raise your businesses ability to adapt to and implement higher level technologies.
Technology Implementation
Finding the right software does not mean that the work is over. STC can help you in adapting and setting up that technology to work with your systems and training staff to use the technology effectively.
Tech Stack Development
Selecting Technology solutions that work together and build on one another is critical to finding the real value of technology to your business. With so many new technologies on the market, making those decisions can be harder than ever. STC can help you cut through the marketing and find technologies that will have measurable value in your business, and help you build a road map to finding good solutions moving forward.
Training and Education
The landscape of construction technology is constantly changing, and staying on top means more than attending conferences. STC offers personalized education programs that help your business build agile development workflows, and employee development programs that will enable your business to be ready to take advantage of changes in technology.
With all the new technology solutions flooding the market, it can be tough to know what technologies are ready to use, and how they will perform in the field. The MEP Innovation Lab tests and reports on construction technologies with a focus on applying them to real construction problems and workflows, working with industry organizations and solution providers to look beyond the specifications and marketing to whether the technology can provide the real solutions needed in modern construction.
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