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_Business, Politics and Society (BBPS), Building, Construction & Architecture, BUILDING'S FUTURE, Building's History_Current Challenges & Resistance to Change (BHCCRC), BUSA_CONSTRUCTION ASSEMBLY MODULES & MODULAR BUILDING (key BUSA concept), BUSA_OPTIMIZED BUILDING (key BUSA concepts), BUSA_PROTOTYPE INITIATIVE (key BUSA concept), BUSA's_Prototype Initiative_Optimized Bldg_Modularity_CIPOs, Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, 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 | Feb 11, 2023 | #Insufficient knowledge transfer, #Trust & good faith, Blog Posts, Building_Business, Politics and Society (BBPS), Building's History_Current Challenges & Resistance to Change (BHCCRC), BUSA_BUILDING ORDERS (key BUSA concept), BUSA_OPTIMIZED BUILDING (key BUSA concepts), BUSA_PROTOTYPE INITIATIVE (key BUSA concept), Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, Other Related Concepts & Strategies
This post explores the unique experience that Building provides to all participants My Earliest Building Memories My first memory of building is of an apartment complex that was built next to my house when I was 4 years old. I was fascinated by the construction...
by steve | Jan 6, 2023 | #Building collaboration, #Common data environments (CDE), #Data analytics, #Digital platforms & transactions, #Digital technology and big data, #Digitization, #Innovation, #Insufficient knowledge transfer, #Knowledge transfer, #Lack of standardization, #New business models, #Productivity, #Quality & value, #Standardization, #Technology & digitization, #Transparency vs obfuscation, BIM & Transaction Software Collaboration Technology (BTSCT), Blog Posts, Building Processes & Operations, Building_Business, Politics and Society (BBPS), Building's History_Current Challenges & Resistance to Change (BHCCRC), BUSA_COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT-BCE (key BUSA concept)), Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, Other Related Concepts & Strategies
This Blog Post explores the traditional competitive advantage building companies have exploited by being opaque and the current struggle/opportunity that technology brings with increased transparency. Opacity vs Transparency As technology gets more and more powerful,...
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, BIM & Transaction Software Collaboration Technology (BTSCT), Blog Posts, Building Processes & Operations, Building, Construction & Architecture, 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 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 | Aug 17, 2022 | #Artificial Intelligence, #Building collaboration, #Collaboration, #Common data environments (CDE), #Digital platforms & transactions, #Digitization, #Insufficient knowledge transfer, #Knowledge transfer, #Lack of standardization, #Multiple stakeholders with diverse interests, #New business models, #Productivity, #Quality & value, #Standardization, #Technology & digitization, #Trust & good faith, Blog Posts, Building_Business, Politics and Society (BBPS), Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, Other Related Concepts & Strategies, Replace Pictures for old content
This post explores: Ideas and challenges of implementing A.I. within the building industry. Software Bias In the summer of 2021, I read an article about computer software bias that has had a significant impact on the ongoing development of BuildUSA’s Build...
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...
