by steve | Nov 28, 2020 | #Attractive organizational culture, #Digital technology and big data, #Digitization, #Industry fragmentation, #Industry labor shortage, #Insufficient cross-discipline collaboration, #Insufficient knowledge transfer, #Knowledge transfer, #Lack of standardization, #Multiple stakeholders with diverse interests, #New business models, #Poor leadership, #Project leadership & management, #Quality & value, #Regulatory oversight, #Staffing & project teams, #Standardization, #Standardization, modularization, prefabrication, #Support services ( financing, insurance, legal), #Technology & digitization, #Transparency vs obfuscation, #Trust & good faith, #Work force retention, Blog Posts, Building_Business, Politics and Society (BBPS), Building's History_Current Challenges & Resistance to Change (BHCCRC), Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, Other Related Concepts & Strategies, White Papers
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...
by steve | Nov 22, 2020 | #Attractive organizational culture, #Building performance & quality, #Collaboration, #Common data environments (CDE), #Cross industry collaboration, #Digital platforms & transactions, #Digitization, #Knowledge transfer, #New building processes & operations, #New business models, #Productivity, #Project leadership & management, #Quality & value, #Staffing & project teams, #Standardization, #Standardization, modularization, prefabrication, #Standards across the industry (STW), #Transparency vs obfuscation, #Work force retention, Blog Posts, Building Processes & Operations, BUILDING'S FUTURE, BUSA_ STRATEGIC VISION, BUSA_OPTIMIZED BUILDING (key BUSA concepts), BUSA_What is it, and what are its goals?, BUSA's_Prototype Initiative_Optimized Bldg_Modularity_CIPOs, Replace Pictures for old content
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...
by steve | Jun 11, 2020 | #Attractive organizational culture, #Demographic shifts, #Multiple stakeholders with diverse interests, #Project leadership & management, #Staffing & project teams, #Trust & good faith, #Work force retention, Blog Posts, Building_Business, Politics and Society (BBPS), 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, Society & Culture
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...
by steve | Apr 12, 2020 | #Attractive organizational culture, #New building processes & operations, #Poor leadership, #Project leadership & management, #Project owners, #Quality & value, #Staffing & project teams, #Strategic workforce planning, #Trust & good faith, Blog Posts, Building_Business, Politics and Society (BBPS), 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 contrast between vicious cycles, driven by poor leadership and mismanagement, which lead to futility and inefficiency, and virtuous cycles, fostered by effective leadership and preparation, which enable progress, optimism, and success in both...
by steve | Feb 16, 2020 | #Attractive organizational culture, #Collaboration, #Cross industry collaboration, #Industry fragmentation, #Industry wide collaboration on marketing, #Lean management & operations, #New building processes & operations, #New business models, #Productivity, #Project leadership & management, #Quality & value, #Staffing & project teams, #Standardization, #Standards across the industry (STW), #Support services ( financing, insurance, legal), #Transparency vs obfuscation, #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, Replace Pictures for old content
This post explores: The history of building and how it has evolved from DIY and Master Builder models to fragmented modern processes involving diverse stakeholders, but the future promises a revival of unified leadership, driven by technological advancements,...
by steve | Sep 3, 2019 | #Adoption (of new technology, materials, tools), #Lean management & operations, #New building processes & operations, #Staffing & project teams, #Support services ( financing, insurance, legal), #Trust & good faith, Blog Posts, Building_Business, Politics and Society (BBPS), Building's History_Current Challenges & Resistance to Change (BHCCRC), Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, Decision-making problem solving, Other Related Concepts & Strategies, Replace Pictures for old content
This post explores: The foundation of successful building industry change lies in trust and good faith, which must be prioritized alongside technological advancements to ensure collaboration, confidence, and integrity in every aspect of the process. What is Win-Win vs...
