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...

42. Systems, Standards, Templates, Workflows & Modules

This blog post explores how the building industry can learn from music’s effective use of standardized modules, collaborative tools, and workflows, applying similar principles through cloud-based platforms and Construction Assembly Modules to streamline...