Raja Ghawi | Source | Partner at Era Ventures
Raja Ghawi
Raja Ghawi is a Partner at Era Ventures. He brings a depth of experience from industries like construction and business models like hardtech and marketplaces to support founders build tough businesses in the space.
Prior to Era, Raja worked at Suffolk beginning in 2018. While there, he helped build Suffolk’s data lake, an industry-first, and also start Suffolk’s venture arm, Suffolk Technologies, which invests in startups and helps them scale through the firm’s network and resources. He also started and led Boost, Suffolk Technologies' accelerator program, which has since graduated 5 cohorts of companies (and counting.)
Raja started his career at McKinsey & Company and was part of QuantumBlack’s, McKinsey’s AI arm, very first US outpost in 2017. A native of Syria and a Harvard graduate, Raja is a voracious reader, a budding cyclsit, and a big fan of Brooklyn’s thriving arts scene.
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Why modular has not clicked in commercial construction
Offsite building techniques should be a boon for the industry, butmodular's market share in North Americais under 6%. Why?
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On paper, and if all goes according to plan, modular construction should result in both time and cost savings. But modular techniques have not cracked the code fully on commercial, and other more complicated, construction types. Architects, consultants, general contractors, subcontractors need retraining, including how to monitor quality and track progress. Another challenge is the fact that the initial savings can often be wiped out by design, manufacturing or execution errors on site.
