by steve | Nov 28, 2020 | Blog Posts, Industry Fragmentation, Insufficient Cross-Discipline Collaboration, Insufficient Knowledge Transfer, Lack of Standardization, Multiple Stakeholders with Diverse Interests, White Papers
One of our greatest public works yet, White Paper 1, will uncover all the current problems in the building world today and present solutions through industry changing innovation and widespread digitization. Stay tuned for the other three White Papers to come that dive...
by steve | Nov 22, 2020 | 06-BUILDING PROCESSES & OPERATIONS, 06j-Knowledge transfer, 06k-Productivity, 06l-Standardization, 06m-Transparency vs Obfuscation, Blog Posts, Building Performance & Quality, Building Processes, Building's Future,, BuildUSA_What is it, and what are its goals?, BUSA_ Strategic Vision, Collaboration, Common Data Environments, Cross industry collaboration, Digitial Platforms & Transactions, Digitization, New business models, Optimized Building (key concepts), Organization Culture, Project Leadership & Management, Quality and Value, Replace Pictures for old content, Staffing and Project Teams, Standardization, modularization, prefabrication, STW standards across the industry, Work force
This post explores: Building quality and performance, and provides the initial outline definition to Optimized Building. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Quality Remains an Open...
by steve | Nov 15, 2020 | Did You Know? (DYK), Environment, Land and Climate
Did you know that Global warming is causing the sea level to rise in two ways??? First: the glaciers and ice sheets worldwide are melting and adding water to the ocean. Second: the volume of the ocean is expanding as the water...
by steve | Nov 15, 2020 | Did You Know? (DYK)
Did you know that there are 30.2 million small businesses in this country? Small businesses comprise 99.9% of all United States businesses
by steve | Nov 9, 2020 | 06m-Transparency vs Obfuscation, Adoption (of new technology, materials, tools), Blog Posts, Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Industry, Collaboration, Collaboration, Digital technology and big data, Economy, Innovation, New business models, Organization Culture, Quality and Value, Replace Pictures for old content, Technology & Digitization, The Economy, Value, & Globalized Markets, Work force
This post explores: How early adoption of new technologies can provide a temporary competitive advantage, but as innovations become industry standards, businesses must implement them to remain competitive, making a well-executed adoption strategy crucial for success...
