The Building Texas Show

On The Building Texas Show, host Justin McKenzie meets Kinetico's Jason Stevenson at the San Antonio Home and Garden Show to unpack how hard water (10 to 32 grains, and up to 150 in Helotes) silently destroys appliances, voids tankless warranties, and quietly drains homeowners' wallets.

On the Building Texas Show, host Justin McKenzie meets Sul Ross State University's Lalo Gonzalez in Alpine to unpack how Borderlands Research Institute helped restore West Texas pronghorn, why New World screwworm is back, and how pneumonia is threatening desert bighorn sheep.

On The Building Texas Show, Kathleen Davis, CDME, president and CEO of Destinations Texas, explains what destination organizations do, how visitors fund tourism marketing and how AI is changing the way Texans travel.

On The Building Texas Show, Luling EDC Executive Director Ari Arias explains how a town known for the Watermelon Thump is connecting residents to aerospace jobs, paid training and new small-business grants.

On The Building Texas Show, Buda Mayor Lee Urbanovsky talks about planning decades ahead, a consistent development process, new parks and the collaboration that helped Main Street come alive.

Sisterdale VFD Chief Brian Reilly tells The Building Texas Show why a roster of 30 to 35 volunteers, 20 to 30 minute rural response times, and 4 to 5 minute flashover in modern homes mean the Hill Country's next Bastrop-scale fire is a matter of preparation, not chance.

Chief Brian Reilly of the Sisterdale Fire Department joins The Building Texas Show to mark 50 years of service in Kendall County, Texas, and argues that volunteer fire departments are poised for a renaissance if they abandon the career-service playbook and embrace community membership.

On The Building Texas Show, PCDC Executive Director Jerry W. Jones Jr. tells host Justin McKenzie how Pflugerville is landing advanced manufacturing, semiconductor, life sciences and aerospace wins, previews Venture Fest (Sept. 26 to Oct. 2), and explains why his team won't recruit any business they wouldn't live next to.

In the final installment of The Building Texas Show's Sisterdale VFD series, a volunteer firefighter breaks down why juniper-choked hillsides create firestorms, what Maui's surviving homes actually had in common, and why residential sprinklers add just 2 to 3 percent to new rural construction costs.

On The Building Texas Show, host Justin McKenzie sits down with Newsworthy.ai co-founder Mark Willaman to unpack why structured, entity-rich press releases have become the ideal content asset for AI discoverability, LLM retrieval, and the 28-day news cycle powering modern brand visibility.