63. Efficiency, Value & Cloud Based Platforms

This post explores the core efficiency proposition that cloud-based platforms offer our professional and personal lives BuildUSA’s Beginning When I started work on BuildUSA in the mid-90s (1994-1996), my focus was on how to make the building transactions more...

59. Building and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)

This post explores: Ideas and challenges of implementing A.I. within the building industry. Software Bias In the summer of 2021, I read an article about computer software bias that has had a significant impact on the ongoing development of BuildUSA’s Build...

51. Agility & Adaptability

This Blog Explores: How finalizing the details of a building design or working cloud based eco system, is less important than ensuring that the framework and parameters that define these environments have sufficient Agility and Adaptability to grow overtime and...

50. IPD, UBP, CIPO, PI, CAM’s and the BCE

This post explores: Key tools and processes, including Integrated Project Delivery (IPD), Unified Building Process (UBP), and the Prototype Initiative (PI), which aim to transform the building industry by integrating workflows, enhancing collaboration, and delivering...

49. Common Data Environments (CDE’s), and the BCE

This post explores: The potential of the BuildUSA Collaborative Environment (BCE) as an advanced cloud-based Common Data Environment designed to streamline data sharing, decision-making, and collaboration across all building project phases, significantly enhancing...

47. What Is the Meaning of Optimized Building?

This post explores: Building quality and performance, and provides the initial outline definition to Optimized Building. Quality Remains an Open Question Both industry professionals and members of the general public often  have a hard...