DIRTT Comes Clean on Its Latest Innovations

  Last week I went to Calgary, Alberta to visit DIRTT and see for myself what DIRTTy tricks they’d been up to since I visited last year at about this time. As it usually happens when you visit DIRTT, one of the first people I encountered was co-founder and CEO, Mogens Smed. Since it was the first time I’d seen him this year, I started the conversation by congratulating him on the company’s 2015 results, clearing the $200million (Canadian $) hurdle for the first time with a remarkable 26.3% revenue growth rate over 2014. His response was, “Yes, but it should be so much more…if people just understood how much better our solutions are than building with traditional building techniques, like drywall, we’d be 3 or 4 times that size by now.” I thought the answer spoke volumes about the attitude of an entrepreneur capable of that level of success. …