by steve | Aug 20, 2025 | Blog Posts, Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, Funny & interesting, GEN_Business, Politics, Economy & Society (BBPES), GEN_Other Related Concepts & Strategies, General Building Interest
This Blog Post uses analogy to explore why there are natural limitations to how much and how fast we can achieve change. The Speed of Light Rapid change and enormous growth are often looked upon as positive features of innovation. We have learned over the past 4 plus...
by steve | Mar 20, 2023 | #Attractive organizational culture, #Collaboration, #Cross industry collaboration, #Economy, value, & globalized markets, #Industry fragmentation, #Industry labor shortage, #Insufficient cross-discipline collaboration, #Insufficient knowledge transfer, #Lack of standardization, #Modularity, #Multiple stakeholders with diverse interests, #New business models, #Poor leadership, #Project leadership & management, #Quality & value, #Regulatory oversight, #Standardization, modularization, prefabrication, #Standards across the industry (STW), #Sustainability, #Technology & digitization, #Trust & good faith, #Work force retention, Blog Posts, Building Processes & Operations, Building, Construction & Architecture, BUILDING'S FUTURE, BUSA_CONSTRUCTION ASSEMBLY MODULES & MODULAR BUILDING, BUSA_Key Concepts_Prototype Initiative_Optimized Bldg_Modularity_CIPOs_BoD, BUSA_OPTIMIZED BUILDING (key BUSA concepts), BUSA_PROTOTYPE INITIATIVE (key BUSA concept), Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, GEN_Building_History, Current Challenges & Resistance to Change (BHCCRC), GEN_Business, Politics, Economy & Society (BBPES), White Papers
White paper three explores: Compares and contrasts the traditional on-site building process that is notoriously inefficient, with the potential of modular and ultimately Optimized building. errors. Traditional vs Modular & Optimized Construction Processes White...
by steve | Sep 19, 2022 | #Attractive organizational culture, #Building collaboration, #Collaboration, #Digital technology and big data, #Industry fragmentation, #Innovation, #Insufficient cross-discipline collaboration, #Insufficient knowledge transfer, #Lack of standardization, #Multiple stakeholders with diverse interests, #New business models, #Quality & value, #Standards across the industry (STW), #Technology & digitization, Blog Posts, Building Processes & Operations, Building, Construction & Architecture, BUSA_Bim & Transaction Software Collaboration Technology (BTSCT), Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, GEN_Building_History, Current Challenges & Resistance to Change (BHCCRC), GEN_Other Related Concepts & Strategies, Replace Pictures for old content
This post explores the beginning of the digital tool evolution (starting in the 1980’s) in the building industry. Innovation 1980’s Style When I started my professional life in 1980, we used the tools pictured below to develop architectural content and...
by steve | Sep 16, 2022 | #Attractive organizational culture, #Work force retention, Blog Posts, Building, Construction & Architecture, Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, Funny & interesting, GEN_Building_History, Current Challenges & Resistance to Change (BHCCRC), GEN_Business, Politics, Economy & Society (BBPES), GEN_Other Related Concepts & Strategies, Replace Pictures for old content, Society & Culture
This post explores the joy of the building process. A Day in the Life of Building I have always considered myself lucky in my building career. From very early on, I’ve been able to move freely from one domain of the industry to another on any given workday: from the...
by steve | Aug 4, 2022 | #Quality & value, Blog Posts, Building, Construction & Architecture, Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, Funny & interesting, GEN_Building_History, Current Challenges & Resistance to Change (BHCCRC), GEN_Building_Performance, Quality, Value, GEN_Business, Politics, Economy & Society (BBPES), GEN_Other Related Concepts & Strategies, General Building Interest, Replace Pictures for old content, Society & Culture
This blog explores: Sand Mandala Art and explores the characteristics that it shares with Building. What is Sand Mandala Art? Sand mandala art is a beautiful process that has developed over a long period of time. The art form originated in India, and is...
by steve | Aug 17, 2021 | Blog Posts, Building, Construction & Architecture, BUSA_Key Concepts_Prototype Initiative_Optimized Bldg_Modularity_CIPOs_BoD, BUSA_OPTIMIZED BUILDING (key BUSA concepts), Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, GEN_Building_History, Current Challenges & Resistance to Change (BHCCRC), GEN_Other Related Concepts & Strategies, Replace Pictures for old content
This Blog Explores: The reality that, for the decades to come, non-optimized, “Boutique” building, will remain a critical tool in solving countless building challenges… . The Build Blog & Building Challenges The Build Blog to date has been...