When Fabian Marín first stepped onto a construction site as a child, he wasn’t there to play. His mother, a civil engineer, and his father, an architect, had brought him into their world—a world of sketches, structures, and systems.
Decades later, Fabian is still on job sites, but now he leads them. His mission today is clear: to bring order, transparency, and digital precision to an industry that too often runs on chaos.
Fabian is the founder of Construcción y Supervisión Marín, a construction firm based in Honduras. Over the past six years, he’s worked on everything from warehouses to vertical housing developments. Most recently, he’s been leading a landmark mixed-use tower one of the first of its kind in his city.
But with that scale comes complexity. As he tells it, the toughest part of construction isn’t the building—it’s the coordination.
“You have architects, engineers, developers, and contractors. Everyone has their own documents. Their own version of the truth. That’s where most problems begin.”
On most job sites, even small decisions are shared across dozens of people: the architects, structural engineers, contractors, electricians, developers, and clients. In theory, everyone should have access to the same plans and project updates. In practice, they rarely do.
“The architect sends an email. The engineer sends a revision through WhatsApp. The contractor hears something different on-site,” Fabian said. “And suddenly, you’re building from five versions of the same drawing.”
Fabian tried to solve the issue using platforms like Procore, but found them either too complex or too disconnected from the realities of his team. “There were good tools out there,” he said, but nothing really fit how we worked in Honduras.”
So, he tried something unexpected: he asked ChatGPT for help.
“I literally typed in: What are the best construction project management platforms? And BuildPeer came up. I had never heard of it. But I booked a demo, tested it out, and within a few weeks, we were all in.”
After scheduling a demo and testing it with his team, Fabian knew he had found his platform.
A New Operating System for Construction
Instead of overhauling everything at once, Fabian introduced BuildPeer gradually. First, his internal team started uploading plans and syncing folders from Google Drive. Then they began documenting progress daily, attaching photos, writing notes, and tracking labor levels floor by floor.
“One month. That’s how long it took the team to adapt. After that, it just became part of our day. We used to rely on memory. On folders. On WhatsApp groups. Now we rely on systems.”
What changed, he says, wasn’t just documentation but rather visibility.
Now, every person on his team has access to the latest plans. Everyone sees the same progress photos. Everyone knows how many people are working where, and when.
From Honduras to Monterrey, Mx: Visit to BuildPeer HQ
In early 2025, Fabian traveled to Monterrey, Mexico, to meet with the BuildPeer team and tour projects powered by the platform. It was his first visit to Mexico.
“I didn’t just want to see different buildings. I wanted to see different ways of solving issues.”
At one project site, Fabian observed architectural materials and design choices, like the extensive use of glass facades, that aren’t commonly used in Honduras. At another, he paid close attention to how teams structured their mechanical and engineering systems. He visited residential towers, watched how crews collaborated, and spoke with project leaders who had fully adopted digital project management tools.
“You think you have the perfect plan,” he said. “Then you’re on-site, and suddenly a corner doesn’t fit. That’s what I came to see how others deal with those real-world problems, how they adapt and solve on the ground.”
The Transition to Digitization
When asked what he sees for the future of construction in Honduras, Fabian doesn’t hesitate.
“We have to go digital. We need to stop delivering 200-page PDFs and start giving real-time access to living information.”
He sees Buildpeer not just as a tool, but as a shift in mindset. A move away from reactive problem-solving toward proactive collaboration. And he’s already seeing the payoff: fewer errors, faster decisions, and teams that feel more connected to the work.
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