Everyone from Laborers to Architects have a fundamentally principle duty to ensure everyone on a construction site is safe.
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Industry Watch – Construction Materials – How Lumber Liquidators Gave America Cancer.
6 to 30 of every 100,000 customers who purchased the formaldehyde laden products from Lumber Liquidators are expected to develop cancer.
Best Practices – Sourcing Suppliers – The Top 7 Places Where you Can Source Suppliers.
In this article, I share the top resources I use to ensure each of bid ends with at least three qualified bidders.
Best Practices – Informal Quotations – How Informal Quotes Hurt You and What You Should be Aware of When You Request One.
If you must go down this path, be aware of how these shortcuts impact you.
Commentary – Open-Plan Offices – How Office Environments Are Making Us Less Social and Why Architects Are to Blame.
Open-plan offices were never really about increasing collaboration they were more about saving cost on Real Estate.
Industry Watch – Construction Technology – Sensor Technology – What is it? How is it Used?
The stories that led my friend astray on state of construction technology came from similar grand statements.
Industry Watch – Construction Technology – BIM Technology – How the Benefits of BIM Might NOT Be Right For Your Project.
Continuing our exploration of trending technologies in construction, Today I want to address Building Information Modeling (BIM) Technology.
BIM Technology has been around for quite some time. As early as 1985 Architects and Engineers have had access to digital tools that allow virtual modeling. The earliest software for this was a lesser known tool called Pro/ENEGINEER (now known as Creo).
Now let’s be clear, virtual modeling is not the same as renderings.
Architects have been producing renderings of buildings even before the prominence of computers. Back then, we relied on artistic skill and formal methods for developing perspective drawings.
Industry Watch – Construction Technology – 3D Printing – How 3D Printing is Poised to be the Most Disruptive Technology in Construction and You Won’t Believe Who’s Behind it.
As we continue our look at construction technology, I wanted to cover what is currently the most disruptive technology in construction.
Conventional methods of construction are extremely labor intensive. They require many skilled tradesmen working many hours.
As we saw in our look into robotics, there are several companies working to replace workers with machines.
3D Printing however, takes queues from existing technology and scales it up to completely change the way we build.
3D printing technology has come a long way since the concept was first patented in 1986 by Charles Hull. Today 3D printing is becoming more and more mainstream and more companies (and industries) are embracing this technology. From the early “on-demand” concepts of 2006 to recent large scale developments, this technology has captured our imagination.
There are several innovators at the forefront of this technology. Today I want to share who the key players are and where this technology is receiving the greatest attention.
Industry Watch – Construction Technology – Robotics in Construction – How Rosie the Robot will Someday Replace Bob the Builder, But Not Yet.
Here are a few robotic solutions making their way onto construction sites Today.
Industry Watch – Construction Technology – How Sensor Technology is Bringing 3D Printing Robots to life with BIM Technology…Or Is It?
This article will give an overview, but stay tuned for the next few articles where we will take each one and provide a more detailed look.
Best Practices – Overhead Costs – What Constitutes Overhead Costs and Why Your Projects Should Not Be Paying Them.
Despite alignment on quoting these costs separately, there still seems to be little to no consistency.
Best practices -Negotiations – How A Shoe Shine Helped Remind Me About Fundamental Principles of Negotiations and Good Business.
The business lessons I got from Joseph will stay with me much longer.