49. Common Data Environments (CDE’s), and the BCE

This post explores: The potential of the BuildUSA Collaborative Environment (BCE) as an advanced cloud-based Common Data Environment designed to streamline data sharing, decision-making, and collaboration across all building project phases, significantly enhancing...

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...

36. What Can We Learn From Other Industries?

This post explore:s How the building industry, facing imminent disruption, can learn from transformative examples in technology, aviation, and manufacturing, as seen with Apple’s innovation-driven market creation, Boeing’s modular manufacturing and workflow processes,...

35. Does Technology Make Life Better?

This post explores: How technological innovation offers immense potential to improve lives and enhance collaboration, its success in the building industry depends on thoughtful, inclusive implementation that balances progress with the needs and capabilities of teams...

22. Technology: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

This post explores: The fact that the building industry, lags behind others in adopting digital innovation, and must embrace collaborative cloud-based platforms to simplify processes, enhance transparency, and improve efficiency, as these technologies promise to...