by | Apr 22, 2019 | 11-Building Performance and Quality, Did You Know? (DYK), Funny & Interesting, Global Trends Shaping the Industries Future
Did you know total annual Municipal Solid Waste generation in the U.S. has increased by 73% since 1980, to the current level of about 262 million tons per year? Can you imagine what it is now!? Further, generation increased by 22% over the same time period, from 3.7...
by | Apr 22, 2019 | 8-People, Organization and Culture, 9-Industry Collaboration, Blog Posts, Global Trends Shaping the Industries Future, Industry Impact on Economy, Society and the Environment
Team Building and Successful Decision Making Good vs. Bad Just Makes No Cents When I am sitting with friends, clients or coworkers, and we are discussing different ways in which a project team can solve problems that impact on the entire team. Frequently the...
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 | Feb 25, 2019 | 6-Building Processes and Operations, 7-Strategy & Business Model Innovation, Did You Know? (DYK), Funny & Interesting
Did you know the rate of urbanization, i.e., the changing of land from forest or agricultural uses to suburban and urban uses, is increasing by 15% from 2010 – 2015? Urban land area is 106,386 square miles, or 3% of total land area in the U.S., and is projected...
