by steve | May 20, 2025 | #Adoption (of new technology, materials, tools), #Attractive organizational culture, #Building Information Modelling (BIM), #Collaboration, #Common data environments (CDE), #Cross industry collaboration, #Data analytics, #Digital platforms & transactions, #Digital technology and big data, #Digitization, #Knowledge transfer, #Lack of standardization, #New business models, #Productivity, #Quality & value, #Standardization, #Standards across the industry (STW), #Transparency vs obfuscation, Blog Posts, Building Processes & Operations, BUILDING'S FUTURE, BUSA_ STRATEGIC VISION, BUSA_COLLABORATIVE ENVIRONMENT-BCE (key BUSA concept)), BUSA_What is it, and what are its goals?, BUSA's Business Plan & Development Strategy (BBPDS), Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, NOTES & DATA STUCTURE, STANDARDS TEMPLATES & WORKFLOWS (key BUSA concept)
This post explores the potential of big data in building and the data structure built into BuildUSA’s environment that will support and enhance Big Data’s potential. Data is a Mess Almost all parties agree that the greatest challenge in big data analysis is the lack...
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 | 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...
