by steve | Aug 20, 2025 | Blog Posts, Building_Business, Politics and Society (BBPS), Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, Funny & interesting, General Building Interest, Other Related Concepts & Strategies
This Blog Post uses analogy to explore why there are natural limitations to how much and how fast we can achieve change. The Speed of Light Rapid change and enormous growth are often looked upon as positive features of innovation. We have learned over the past 4 plus...
by steve | Mar 20, 2023 | #Attractive organizational culture, #Collaboration, #Cross industry collaboration, #Economy, value, & globalized markets, #Industry fragmentation, #Industry labor shortage, #Insufficient cross-discipline collaboration, #Insufficient knowledge transfer, #Lack of standardization, #Modularity, #Multiple stakeholders with diverse interests, #New business models, #Poor leadership, #Project leadership & management, #Quality & value, #Regulatory oversight, #Standardization, modularization, prefabrication, #Standards across the industry (STW), #Sustainability, #Technology & digitization, #Trust & good faith, #Work force retention, Blog Posts, Building Processes & Operations, Building_Business, Politics and Society (BBPS), Building, Construction & Architecture, BUILDING'S FUTURE, Building's History_Current Challenges & Resistance to Change (BHCCRC), BUSA_CONSTRUCTION ASSEMBLY MODULES & MODULAR BUILDING (key BUSA concept), BUSA_OPTIMIZED BUILDING (key BUSA concepts), BUSA_PROTOTYPE INITIATIVE (key BUSA concept), BUSA's_Prototype Initiative_Optimized Bldg_Modularity_CIPOs_BoD, Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, White Papers
White paper three explores: Compares and contrasts the traditional on-site building process that is notoriously inefficient, with the potential of modular and ultimately Optimized building. errors. Traditional vs Modular & Optimized Construction Processes White...
by steve | Nov 22, 2022 | Blog Posts, BUILDING'S FUTURE, BUSA_BUILDING ORDERS (key BUSA concept), BUSA_COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT-BCE (key BUSA concept)), BUSA_OPTIMIZED BUILDING (key BUSA concepts), BUSA_PROTOTYPE INITIATIVE (key BUSA concept), BUSA_What is it, and what are its goals?, BUSA's_Prototype Initiative_Optimized Bldg_Modularity_CIPOs_BoD, 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 | #Common data environments (CDE), #Digital platforms & transactions, #Digital technology and big data, #Digitization, #Knowledge transfer, #New business models, #Productivity, #Quality & value, #Standardization, #Standards across the industry (STW), #Technology & digitization, #Transparency vs obfuscation, #Work force retention, BIM & Transaction Software Collaboration Technology (BTSCT), Blog Posts, Building Processes & Operations, Building_Business, Politics and Society (BBPS), Building's History_Current Challenges & Resistance to Change (BHCCRC), BUSA_COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT-BCE (key BUSA concept)), Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, Other Related Concepts & Strategies, Replace Pictures for old content
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 | Sep 19, 2022 | #Attractive organizational culture, #Building collaboration, #Collaboration, #Digital technology and big data, #Industry fragmentation, #Innovation, #Insufficient cross-discipline collaboration, #Insufficient knowledge transfer, #Lack of standardization, #Multiple stakeholders with diverse interests, #New business models, #Quality & value, #Standards across the industry (STW), #Technology & digitization, BIM & Transaction Software Collaboration Technology (BTSCT), Blog Posts, Building Processes & Operations, Building, Construction & Architecture, Building's History_Current Challenges & Resistance to Change (BHCCRC), Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, Other Related Concepts & Strategies, Replace Pictures for old content
This post explores the beginning of the digital tool evolution (starting in the 1980’s) in the building industry. Innovation 1980’s Style When I started my professional life in 1980, we used the tools pictured below to develop architectural content and...
by steve | Sep 16, 2022 | #Attractive organizational culture, #Work force retention, Blog Posts, Building_Business, Politics and Society (BBPS), Building, Construction & Architecture, Building's History_Current Challenges & Resistance to Change (BHCCRC), Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, Funny & interesting, Other Related Concepts & Strategies, Replace Pictures for old content, Society & Culture
This post explores the joy of the building process. A Day in the Life of Building I have always considered myself lucky in my building career. From very early on, I’ve been able to move freely from one domain of the industry to another on any given workday: from the...
