by steve | Feb 11, 2023 | Blog Posts, Building Orders (key concept), Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Industry, Insufficient Knowledge Transfer, Optimized Building (key concepts), Prototype Initiative (key concept), Trust & Good Faith
This post explores the unique experience that Building provides to all participants My Earliest Building Memories My first memory of building is of an apartment complex that was built next to my house when I was 4 years old. I was fascinated by the construction...
by steve | Jan 24, 2023 | Adoption (of new technology, materials, tools), BIM, Blog Posts, Building Processes, BuildUSA's Collaborative Environment (BCE), Change Coming to the Industry, Collaboration, Common Data Environments, Cross industry collaboration, Data Analytics, Digital technology and big data, Digitial Platforms & Transactions, Digitization, Knowledge transfer, New business models, Notes & Data Structure, Productivity, Quality and Value, Standardization, STW standards across the industry, Technology & Digitization, Transparency vs Obfuscation
This Blog Post explores the potential of Big Data Warehouses, data analytics, and the future of building. Who Gets the Financial Reward for Upfront Data Structure Building professionals are hard at work trying to determine the best data structures and workflows to be...
by steve | Jan 6, 2023 | Blog Posts, Building Collaboration, Building Processes, BuildUSA's Collaborative Environment (BCE), Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Industry, Common Data Environments, Data Analytics, Digital technology and big data, Digitial Platforms & Transactions, Digitization, Innovation, Insufficient Knowledge Transfer, Knowledge transfer, Lack of Standardization, New business models, Productivity, Quality and Value, Standardization, Technology & Digitization, Transparency vs Obfuscation
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 transparency. Opacity vs Transparency As technology gets more and more powerful,...
by steve | Nov 22, 2022 | Blog Posts, Building Orders (key concept), Building's Future,, BuildUSA_What is it, and what are its goals?, BuildUSA's Collaborative Environment (BCE), Optimized Building (key concepts), Prototype Initiative (key concept), Replace Pictures for old content
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 building. Driving Parameters of Innovation In order to foster innovation...
by steve | Oct 12, 2022 | Blog Posts, Building Processes, BuildUSA's Collaborative Environment (BCE), Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Industry, Common Data Environments, Digital technology and big data, Digitial Platforms & Transactions, Digitization, Knowledge transfer, New business models, Productivity, Quality and Value, Replace Pictures for old content, Standardization, STW standards across the industry, Technology & Digitization, Transparency vs Obfuscation, Work force
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...
by steve | Aug 17, 2022 | Artificial Intelligence, Blog Posts, Building Collaboration, Business, Politics and Society, Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Industry, Collaboration, Common Data Environments, Digitial Platforms & Transactions, Digitization, Insufficient Knowledge Transfer, Knowledge transfer, Lack of Standardization, Multiple Stakeholders with Diverse Interests, New business models, Productivity, Quality and Value, Replace Pictures for old content, Standardization, Technology & Digitization, Trust & Good Faith
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...
