48. White Paper One: Building is Changing Are You?

White Paper #1 discusses how the building industry, long resistant to change, is on the brink of digital transformation as technologies like BIM, CDEs, and modular methods promise to boost productivity, streamline workflows, and improve collaboration, with BuildUSA...

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...

46. Successful Innovation Is Always a Zero-Sum Game

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...

44. Food and Building Got it Wrong!!

This post explores: The parallels between food and building, emphasizing the need to shift focus from short-term aesthetics and financial gains to long-term quality and performance, advocating for better data, understanding, and solutions to create healthy,...

43. The Borg vs. Kirk vs. Spock

This blog post explores what Building’s future decision-making look like?  Conjecturing that building’s future decision-making will likely align with a “Spock” model, blending logical frameworks for standards and workflows...

41. Ignorance is Not Bliss

This post explores: How at any given time, a community’s balance of Knowledge, Resources, Skill-Sets, and Customs (KRSC) defines its optimal potential, and as Building undergoes a transformative shift driven by technology, collaboration, and new standards, it...