Tom McLaughlin

Tom McLaughlin is VP of Finance at Thomasfield Homes, a family-owned builder and developer based in Guelph, Ontario. An urban planner by training, he sits on the board of the Ontario Home Builders' Association and writes and speaks widely on how AI and robotics will reshape construction — including a widely read Real Estate News Exchange (RENX) article, "Construction's Productivity Illusion and the Robot-Filled Future That Might Fix It."

On the Canadian Private Real Estate Podcast, Tom joined host Justin Smith to discuss where AI already changes a builder's workflow, the "productivity illusion" in construction, task robots and humanoids like Tesla's Optimus arriving on job sites, how autonomous vehicles could rewrite urban land values, and which real estate he'd want to own in that new world.