by | Apr 22, 2019 | 5-Digitization, Modeling, Data and Analytics, Blog Posts
Value and the 100 year old Oak Tree: What makes a building valuable? At first glance, this question may seem straightforward. You can express value in financial terms. In this case, by applying a cap rate to the net revenue to calculate the expected rate of...
by | Apr 22, 2019 | 8-People, Organization and Culture, AREAS OF INNOVATION, Blog Posts
Technology, Work and Self Worth Some of the best, smartest and most self-confident people I know are in Building. This is not to say I don’t know a lot of “A-holes” in our industry as well, we all know we definitely have more than our fair share. But I have always...
by | Mar 25, 2019 | 6-Building Processes and Operations, 7-Strategy & Business Model Innovation, 8-People, Organization and Culture, Blog Posts
“It’s not brain surgery.” The saying implies that the activity in question is relatively simple in comparison with the difficulty of operating on the human brain. There may be some truth to this saying—but NOT if it is applied to the building process. Consider that a...
by | Jan 23, 2019 | 10-Industry Marketing, 5-Digitization, Modeling, Data and Analytics, 6-Building Processes and Operations, 7-Strategy & Business Model Innovation, Blog Posts, Guest Contributors
When you look at the image that introduces this blog post, do you the think the modular structure of the present or the past is of higher quality? Do you even think of classical Greek Temples as modular construction? In the classical period of Western civilization,...
by | Dec 19, 2018 | 6-Building Processes and Operations, 7-Strategy & Business Model Innovation, Blog Posts
IN THE IMMORTAL WORDS OF JOE FRIDAY: “Just the Facts Ma’am, Just the Facts” What are Data, Facts and Knowledge? Who Owns or Controls Them? Sometimes the facts seem so obvious it is hard to accept when they are actually wrong!! While writing I used...
by | Dec 11, 2018 | 11-Building Performance and Quality, 12-Government and Regulation, Blog Posts
It was 1983, in Lincoln Park, and I was three months into my first Design/Build/Development project. My partner and I had just purchased a traditional Chicago Bungalow that had been raised on timbers in the aftermath of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. In the decade...
