Lemon Laws for Buildings
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 146). To misquote Henry David Thoreau, the property industry is "hacking at the branches of the problems and not striking at the root”. What problems? Poor design. BTW, copy and paste is not design. Low quality outcomes. High energy, high carbon outcomes.…
Edifice Complex Podcast – #010 – Dr. Peter Simmonds – Pushing the Envelope
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 145). Our guest this month is Dr. Peter Simmonds, talking about Bangkok airport, radiant cooling and comfort driven building design. We really enjoyed talking to Peter, he is no-nonsense and pushes through where others fear to go. If I where starting again as…
Where is Elon Musk? – Cars Vs Buildings
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 144). I got some interesting love & hate feed back on my "Site House Keeping is a KPI” piece ( https://bldwhisperer.com/site-house-keeping-is-a-kpi/ ). So to double down on the theme, my question this week is, “where is Elon Musk?" There are no commissioning…
Site House Keeping is a KPI
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 143). Companies and people emit signals 24/7 about their competence, core values and who they really are. IMHO, how you do something is how you do everything! How you present yourself, manage workflow and staff, even how you write and send an…
Unboxing Video Vs Kick Off Meeting
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 142). Ever get the feeling that everyone at the project kick off meeting is just going through the motions so they can tick it off as a milestone done? If you have led a kick off meeting and people are looking at…
Edifice Complex Podcast – #009 – Paul Ghezzi – Disrupt or be Disrupted
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 141). Do you ever wonder about the future, well do ya? Then this is the podcast for you! Our guest is Paul Ghezzi, CEO of Kontrol Energy Corp (CSE:KNR, FSE:1K8), talking about future disruptions coming to the built environment. Kontrol Energy recently launched the bIOTAsphere, a…
Stairwell Pressurization RFI
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 140). The RFI you should write on every project, IMHO. Stairwell pressurization systems are a bit like software licenses, we all acknowledge and accept them without understanding or even knowing about them, then assume they work as designed. When was the last…
Pay It Forwards – Built Environment PhD Research
My awesome friend and ex-colleague Mr. Nimitt Karia is pursuing a PhD. He has a research questionnaire on the "Impact of disruptive thinking and technologies on built environment professionals” and needs as many people as possible to complete it. If you have time, please help Nimitt and complete the questionnaire…
Edifice Complex Podcast – #008 Cecilia Garay Chaparro & April Byers – Pushing Through
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 139). This is an extra podcast (dropping, March 1st) in addition to our usual monthly schedule. Our guests are Cecilia Garay Chaparro and April Byers. For us this is a special and important episode of the podcast as it deals with issues women face in engineering.…