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WELCOME TO STEVE'S BUILD BLOG
Exploring the challenges and opportunities in building.
Introducing BuildUSA,Prototype Initiative and Optimized Building
What’s it all about:
Steve’ Build Blog (SBB) is all about the challenges building faces and the solutions being developed. Overtime SBB will be introducing BuildUSA (BUSA), the Prototype Initiative (PI) and Optimized Building (OB), combined they offer solutions to forward looking, integrated and collaborative, Building Teams.
Monthly Theme
Throughout 2023, SBB will organize content via a “Monthly Theme”. Building, encompasses an extraordinary amount of topics, and “Monthly Theme is intended to make the content more useful. If you have any suggestion, please reach out and let us know.
April 2023 Monthly Theme:
The Building industry impact on our communities, punches well above its weight. Not only does it drive the economy for building services and building materials, including manufacturing, transportation and distribution networks, but it has immediate impact on the Furniture, Fixtures & Equipment (FFE) industry that will fill the building and make it operational for the future tenents.
Building A House In 9 Minutes
How AI is transforming the creative industries
DYK- AI Technology Can Help Organizations
AI Technology Did you know that AI technology can help organizations provide an understanding of the abundance of data available and rely on predictions to automate excessively complex or mundane...
DYK- Air Conditioner
Air Conditioner Did you know that air conditioners can pose a threat to climate change? There are chemicals like hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) that can be upward of 12,000 times more potent at trapping...
DYK- Seed Drill Machine
Seed Drill Machine Did you know that there are many benefits of direct drilling with a seed drill? For example, lower cost, environmentally friendly, saves time, and works amazingly in challenging...
DYK- Old Tools That Are Better Than New
Three old tools that are better than new tools Did you know that three tools are significantly better than new tools. Planishing HammerFraming SquareBevel Gauge
DYK- 57 Storey Skyscraper
Chinese Skyscraper Did you know that a construction company in China built a 57-Storey skyscraper in just 19 days? The engineers stated, "With the traditional method, they have to build a skyscraper...
DYK- Sand Mandala Art
Making of Sand Mandala Art Did you know that back in the day monks would use precious stone in place of coloured sand?
DYK- Air Pollution
Air Pollution Did you know that in the United States four out of ten U.S residents (135 million people) are living in counties that have unhealthy levels of air pollution?
DYK: Recycled Materials
Recycled Materials Did you know that all the materials that come from a building site for reuse are recycled building materials. For example, brick, wood, insulation, glass, plastics, building, wall...
DYK – Green Floors
Floors Did you know that bamboo and cork floors are becoming more popular choices because of their resemblance to traditional hardwood floors. The main problem with traditional hard woods -- like...
DYK – Compact Fluorescent Bulbs
Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs & Mercury Did you know that compact fluorescent bulbs have a small amount of mercury? It has an average of four milligrams in each bulb. Because compact...
DYK – Recycled Glass Countertops
Recycled Glass Countertops Did you know that recycled glass countertops are eco-friendly? Most of the finished countertops are made out of recycled glass that contains about 70% to 80% recycled...
DYK- Customer Relations
Increase Customer Retention Did you know that studies have shown that 61% of customers tend to stop buying from a company if they face a poor customer experience? Therefore, companies that do a...
The Story Behind The Willis Tower
DYK – Insulation
Insulation Did you know that consumer reports say that heating and cooling costs comprise 43 percent of the average homeowner's utility bills [source: Consumer Reports]. According to the...
DYK – Going Green Can Avoid Home Hazards?
The article will be directed towards normal people. It will discuss the dangers of building cheaply and how it can affect health.
DYK: Buildings Kryptonite… Time
Did you know that 3 out of 4 construction businesses (77%) say they are happy with how quickly they finish a job, and a majority (53%) are happy with how quickly they get paid for their work? This...
The Impact of AI & Machine Learning in Construction
DYK: Rising Construction Costs
Did you know that construction costs for the 12-month period through the end of August 2021 rose by 4.5 percent, with material costs leading the way with a whopping increase of 23.1...
DYK: Demands of The Building Industry
Did you know that the industry needs to build 13,000 buildings each day between now and 2050 to support an expected population of 7 billion people living in cities. It also...
Web 3.0 The Future of The Web
View Post We are currently in a huge paradigm shift in history as the world begins to enter Web 3.0 - this video provides some...
DYK: Web2.0 vs Web 3.0
Did you know that there are different versions of the web? Web 1.0 or the original version of the internet (Netscape) was the primary game in town during the early 2000's. This was the first...
What is BIM & how it is changing the construction industry?
DYK: Not Just a “One Off”
Did you know that the global average value of a construction delay dispute is roughly $54.3 million. Where the average length of these disputes are 13.4 months! Further 9 out of 10 projects...
The Worlds Tallest Modular Hotel
DYK: A Century’s Hidden Gem
Did you know that modular construction was actually implemented in the U.S. and is over 100 years old! Modular construction was actually integrated in the 1600's when English settlers brought well...
Determining Quality on The Jobsite
"Making Sure Bad Things Don’t Happen to Good Projects. To put it simply, quality assurance/quality control means...
New Technologies in Building
Drones, VR, AI, 3D printing and scanning: how can all these new technologies help design the buildings of tomorrow?
DYK: An Industry Favorite
Did you know that concrete is the most widely used building material in the world? Check out this article for a detailed history of building materials since the stone ages!...
DYK: The Prophecy Has Ended
Did you know that the Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest structure in the world for over 3,800 years?
What is BuildUSA?
This Blog Explores: BuildUSA, and its component parts and characteristics. . . So, what is BuildUSA? BuildUSA (BUSA) was originally a technology start-up in the...
Time is Money
The Blog Post explores: How the timing and timeliness of decision-making impacts the overall quality and cost of a project. . How the timing and...
The Building Orders-Optimized Building
This Blog Explores: The meaning of Optimized Building. In the blog post “The New Order” , were introduced. Boutique projects that offer...
Performance, Business Markets, & Quality = Value
This Blog Explores: Understanding the basics of Value and making the case that understanding Value as it pertains to Building is a key to push building into a brighter future. ....
Non-Optimized Building is Still Critical
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...
Collaboratively Integrated Partner Organizations (CIPO)
This Blog Explores: Defining and explaining the power and competitive advantage of Collaboratively Integrated Partner Organizations. . . The CIPO business model is geared toward...
Agility & Adaptability
This Blog Explores: How finalizing the details of a building design or working cloud based eco system, is less important than ensuring that the framework and parameters that define these environment...
Common Data Environments (CDE’s)
DYK: Soaring in The Clouds
Did you know that the global cloud computing market is expected to reach $623.3 billion by 2023 and according to cloud computing growth stats, the industry will grow at a CAGR of 18%. In 2018, the...
DYK: Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Building
Did you know that AI has the potential to increase industry profits by 71% by 2035? 5 Disruptive Changes of AI: Construction Workflow Transformation Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality...
Progress on The Worlds Largest Skyscraper – Jeddah Tower
DYK: Height Wars – The Battle of The Heavens
Did you know that there currently is a new world's tallest building being built? Currently the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai, stands at 2,722 feet tall and took six years to build. So what is this tower?...
DYK: Do You Hear Something?
Did you know there has been a 239 percent growth of drone use in the construction industry in the past year?
DYK: Tower of Terror
Did you know that the world's fastest elevator located in Shanghai Tower and goes 40 feet per minute!
IPD, UBP, CIPO, PI, CAM’s and the BCE
The title of this blog post may sound like bureaucratic acronym speak, but I promise you each capital letter is meaningful. IPD or Integrated Project...
Common Data Environments (CDE’s), and the BCE
Collaboration, Lean Construction, Six Sigma have been industry buzz words for some time now. Each implies a certain approach to team building,...