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Exploring the challenges and opportunities in building.

Introducing BuildUSA,Prototype Initiative and Optimized Building

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What’s it all about:

Steve’ Build Blog (SBB) is all about the challenges building faces and the solutions being developed. Overtime SBB will be introducing BuildUSA (BUSA), the Prototype Initiative (PI) and Optimized Building (OB), combined they offer solutions to forward looking, integrated and collaborative, Building Teams.  

Monthly Theme

Throughout 2023, SBB will organize content via a “Monthly Theme”. Building, encompasses an extraordinary amount of topics, and “Monthly Theme is intended to make the content more useful. If you have any suggestion, please reach out and let us know.

April 2023 Monthly Theme:

The Building industry impact on our communities, punches well above its weight. Not only does it drive the economy for building services and building materials, including manufacturing, transportation and distribution networks, but it  has immediate impact on the Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment (FFE) industry that will fill the building and make it operational for the future tenents.

The Building Experience

The Building Experience

This post explores the unique experience that Building provides to all participants My first memory of building is of an apartment complex that was built next to my house when I was 4 years old. I...

DYK- Inflation & The Construction Industry

DYK- Inflation & The Construction Industry

Did you know that as rates of inflation has increased in our economy it has affected our industry and the effects are showing. Essential materials and skilled labor significantly more expensive, but...

DYK- Solar Energy Technologies

DYK- Solar Energy Technologies

Did you know that there are two main types of solar energy technologies: photovoltaics (PV) and concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP)? In Photovoltaics Basics when the sun shines onto a solar...

Back To The Future

Back To The Future

Back to the Future  A brief look backward into Building’s history and an even briefer glimpse into Building’s future A successful building process requires expertise from diverse fields of...

What is BuildUSA all About? 

What is BuildUSA all About? 

This post explores the history and current status of BuildUSA.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ...

What is Steve’s Build Blog About? 

What is Steve’s Build Blog About? 

This post explores the purpose of Steve’s Build Blog and the type of content that is developed in pursuit of achieving the stated goals.  Whether we like it or not, the world is changing and it...

The Changing Basis of Design

The Changing Basis of Design

This post explores the basic elements that building professionals assume are readily available and upon which their building designs are based. ...

BuildUSA – The Business Opportunity

BuildUSA – The Business Opportunity

This blog explores the growing business opportunities for BuildUSA, the Prototype Initiative, and Optimized Building -----------------------------------------------------------------------------...

Prototype Initiative 

Prototype Initiative 

This post outlines the three pillars of BuildUSA’s business plan, the “Prototype Initiative.” It also discusses the six primary services/products that BuildUSA will offer.  ...

DYK – How will the BCE evolve over the next 5 years?

DYK – How will the BCE evolve over the next 5 years?

Did you know over the next five years, BuildUSA's CDE + BCE is poised to undergo significant evolution, driven by the construction industry's shift towards modular and optimized building approaches?...

BuildUSA – Optimized Building (OB) 

BuildUSA – Optimized Building (OB) 

This post goes into more detail about why and how BUSA and OB were developed and describes in more detail the nine elements or characteristics that comprise Optimized Building. It also addresses why...

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