From cutting plywood alongside her parents to becoming the CEO of The Genre's Design, Kraig Briones proves that age and gender don't define your capabilities. In this Philippine Tool Talks Builder Insider episode, discover her journey from laborer to business owner, the challenges of running a woodworking and modular cabinetry business, and the lessons she learned from costly mistakes, CNC technology, and being underestimated as a young woman in construction.
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Seven projects. Costly estimating mistakes. A construction career that began with one unexpected yes.
Engr. Clark Ferrer, better known as Mr. Contractor, shares how he built Delta DNC Inc., overcame business challenges, and turned his experiences into valuable lessons for aspiring contractors. In this Philippine Tool Talks Builder Insider episode, he discusses building client trust, practicing accountability, and why helping others succeed matters just as much as the structures we build.
He started with gates, fences, bathrooms and cabinets. Ar. JM Miranda of Raw House Architects joins Ar. Joyce and Rumi to discuss building a firm from scratch, finding the right clients, renovation surprises, budget compromises and why young architects should just start.
Five days after graduation, Roxanne Roxas had a ₱1M project. Ten years later, the Rox Interiors CEO shares her DESIGNER values, going bankrupt at 26, and why she never says no.
Meet Ar. Sean Delos Santos of DS Design, known online as RK Thicc: nine years in corporate architecture, a design and build firm, and how Pourman was born.
A 10-meter fall in Laos ended one plan and started another. Mark Ignacio, CEO of Philinspect — the country's first third-party property inspection company — joins Tin and Engr. Sophia to talk about the ₱400-million house with no electrical grounding, why "trust your contractor" isn't a system, and the defects hiding in most Philippine builds.
She registered a construction company in 2020 while everyone else opened food businesses. Ar. Claud of SnMAC Construction and Development Corp. on Builder Insider — why professionalism has nothing to do with a license, and what it really costs to skip the architect.
Most contractors buy software or give up on it. Sahhara Laureano spent six months learning to code and built HARA-ONE herself — and she is opening it up to other Filipino contractors.
Meet Gila Salvador Arellano, founder of Madhouse Design & Construction Studio — her three pillars, her humans-first philosophy, and how she built a studio from scratch.