Did you know that knowledge transfer is necessary for a business to run smoothly? It improves innovation, collaboration, and understanding in your business. Rather than relying on facts and...
WELCOME TO STEVE'S BUILD BLOG
Exploring the challenges and opportunities in building.
Introducing BuildUSA,Prototype Initiative and Optimized Building
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.
March 2023 Monthly Theme:
Technology creates data and analytic transparency in remarkable detail and speed, to a potentially infinite audience. How may this conflict with traditional business models that have been built on the premise that proprietary business practices and IP, are the key to the company’s current competitive edge?
How Construction Technology Could Solve The Climate Emergency
Existing Authority vs Technology’s Transparency
This Blog Post explores the traditional competitive advantage building companies have exploited by being opaque and the current struggle/opportunity that technology brings with increased...
DYK-Wind Energy
Did you know that wind is used to produce electricity by converting the kinetic energy of air in motion into electricity? Today modern wind turbines rotate the rotor blades, which convert...
They Don’t Build Them Like They Used To
Growing up I would often hear the phrase “they don’t build them like they used to.” The saying implies that older buildings are better than new buildings. Better design, better construction, better...
Generation Cyborg
I am the father of two cyborgs. That is, I am the father of two Millennials. As far as I’m concerned, they may as well be cyborgs. As someone who came of age in a media ecology of tape decks,...
International Construction Costs 2022
DYK- Underrepresented Group in Construction
Did you know that the construction industry was predominately male between 2003 and 2020. Despite the fact that the figures ranged from 9.1 million to 11.4 million, barely 10% of construction...
DYK- The Worldwide Construction Boom
Did you know that there are numerous construction firms all around the world that have experience working on projects both domestically and abroad. The Panama Canal and the Suez Canal, which were...
White Paper Four: The Near Future Of The Building Industry
White paper four will cover the near future of the building industry and will be defined by the dominance of digital technology, the rise of optimized building, and the emergence of new paradigms of...
White Paper Three: Optimized Building
White paper three will cover the traditional on-site building process that is notoriously inefficient. Typically, it involves the coordination of multiple, disjointed teams, each inhabiting their...
White Paper Two: CDE, BIM, & BIG DATA
White paper two will cover three key drivers of the industry’s ongoing digital transformation that are common data environments (CDEs), building information modeling (BIM), and big data analytics....
DYK- Planning Disaster Recovery
Did you know that disorder frequently follows natural calamities. Because of the volatile climate and the heightened emotions, quick judgments must be taken. The effectiveness and execution of...
DYK: Three Interconnected Solutions
Did you know that a lot of people think that cities are in jeopardy. They could be correct. Urban centers have seen an unparalleled string of interrelated, compounding crises over the past three...
The Growing Popularity of Modular Construction
DYK- Big Data Challenges
Did you know that adopting analytics tools may pose challenges for project-driven business in the building industry. Unstructured Data- It is the biggest challenge for any big data analytics...
DYK- Common Data Environment (CDE)
Did you know that Common Data Environment also known as (CDE) is a cloud-based digital platform that functions as a central repository for all project data. It improves efficiencies and streamlines...
Building Optimization
DYK- Introduction to Optimized Building
Did you know that "Optimized" building and modular construction represents a portion of the future of building development. After decades of relatively slow growth, the rapid rise of modular looks...
Optimized Building & The Healthcare System
This blog introduces a key aspect of Optimized Building: building designs and their component CAMs developed within an overall ecosystem of product solutions. A core aspect of Optimized Building is...
DYK- Robust Technological Solutions
Did you know that technologies such as BIM have the capacity to breakdown traditional silos, enable real time knowledge sharing, and promote collaboration among previously disconnected...
DYK- Digital Transformation Challenges The Building Industry
Did you know that few companies fully digitized their operations the traditional processes and procedures that have evolved over the history of the deeply fragmented, risk-averse building industry....
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...
Inflation In Construction & What You Need To Know
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- Green Buildings & Climate Change
Did you know that by building green we can can reduce the impact our buildings have on contributing to climate change. According to Architect 2023, building accounts for 40% of all greenhouse has...
Notes: Building Big Data Warehouses
This Blog Post explores the potential of Big Data Warehouses, data analytics, and the future of building Building professionals are hard at work trying to determine the best data structures and...
Why Is Energy Storage So Important?
DYK- Energy Storage
Did you know that there are many benefits to choosing energy storage? It depends on the application and the type of technology that is selected to meet that application’s requirement. Energy...
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...
DYK- Construction Standardization
Did you know that the low productivity in the construction sector is due to the lack of standardized processes, and the low adoption of technologies. In construction standardization means...
DYK- Knowledge Transfer
Did you know that knowledge transfer is necessary for a business to run smoothly? It improves innovation, collaboration, and understanding in your business. Rather than relying on facts and...
How Construction Technology Could Solve The Climate Emergency
Existing Authority vs Technology’s Transparency
This Blog Post explores the traditional competitive advantage building companies have exploited by being opaque and the current struggle/opportunity that technology brings with increased...
Design Fragmentation in Construction
DYK- Building Industry Fragmentation
Did you know that fragmentation within the construction industry arises from two areas within the traditional construction process; the construction work process where the most significant division...
DYK- Collaboration in Construction
Did you know that collaboration is key to construction? When it comes to construction the biggest challenge is to deliver projects on time. Strong collaboration means increased productivity,...
The Insane Scale of Europe’s New Mega-Tunnel
DYK- Construction Digitization
Did you know digital building technologies assist the structure of the technological landscape in the construction sector? For example, technologies are categorized along two axes: cyber-physical...
DYK- Smart Building Technologies
Did you know that smart buildings include efficient technologies with automated controls, networked sensors and meters, advanced building automation, data analytics software, energy management...
DYK- World of BIM
Did you know that the uses of building information modeling (BIM) in the construction sector of the United States as of summer 2019; 49% percent of the surveyed builders stated that they use...
DYK- Data Analytics in Construction
Did you know that the construction industry faces many challenges? One crucial challenge is that the construction process itself generates a lot of data often stored in multiple antiquated...
How Concrete Homes Are Built With A 3D Printer
DYK- Building Performance Data
Did you know that the Building Performance Data (BPD) contains information about the building’s energy use, location, and physical and operational characteristics? The BPD is used by building...
What is Digital Twin? How does it work?
DYK- Vertical Construction
Did you know that in vertical construction, such as commercial and institutional buildings digital technologies could reduce the cost of design, engineering, and construction by 10% to 15%? In...
Prototype Initiative
This blog introduces the BuildUSA business strategy called the “Prototype Initiative (PI).” It describes the PI’s core components, and how the PI supports the key BuildUSA services and Optimized...
DYK- Smart Healthcare
Did you know that due to rapid population increases, traditional healthcare systems are now unable to handle and accommodate everyone’s requirements? Smart healthcare educates users about their...
DYK- Cloud Based Electronic Health Records
Did you know that cloud-based Electronic Health Records (EHR) allow systems to be interoperable and the sharing of health information to be done securely? These services offer the opportunity...
DYK: Z Modular
Did you know that the Z Modular reduces construction time, guarantees precision, and ensures rapid installation. Also, a portfolio of customizable, ready-to-build designs allows you to complete...
DYK: Houses Like Cars
Did you know that assembly OSM brings auto and plane technologies to residential construction? A startup called Assembly OSM aims to build mid-to-high-rise residential buildings using a...
DYK- WYZ Bulb Color
Did you know that the WYZ bulb color is the brightest smart bulb? It is one of the most affordable color-adjustable bulbs. It has an intuitive app that makes the switch to using smart bulbs as easy...
Efficiency, Value & Cloud Based Platforms
This post explores the core efficiency proposition that cloud-based platforms offer our professional and personal lives When I started work on BuildUSA in the mid-90s (1994-1996), my focus was on...
DYK- Bioenergy Technologies Office
Did you know that Bioenergy can help ensure an economically sound and secure future while reducing environmental impacts through: Developing affordable domestic fuels and co-products Advancing clean...
DYK- HP’s Construction Robot
Did you know that HP now has a SitePrint Robot? The robot can autonomously print layouts on construction site floors and the machine can outline walls, doors and other elements with little...