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...

46. Successful Innovation Is Always a Zero-Sum Game

This post explores: How early adoption of new technologies can provide a temporary competitive advantage, but as innovations become industry standards, businesses must implement them to remain competitive, making a well-executed adoption strategy crucial for success...

43. The Borg vs. Kirk vs. Spock

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...

42. Systems, Standards, Templates, Workflows & Modules

This blog post explores how the building industry can learn from music’s effective use of standardized modules, collaborative tools, and workflows, applying similar principles through cloud-based platforms and Construction Assembly Modules to streamline...

41. Ignorance is Not Bliss

This post explores: How at any given time, a community’s balance of Knowledge, Resources, Skill-Sets, and Customs (KRSC) defines its optimal potential, and as Building undergoes a transformative shift driven by technology, collaboration, and new standards, it...

40. Change is Tectonic

This post explores: The nature of change and that the building industry faces an imminent tectonic shift driven by mounting pressures, new technologies, and unsustainable practices, necessitating proactive leadership to embrace collaborative solutions and redefine...