Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 116) - All IMHO: My love hate relationship with LEED continues, particularly commissioning.Since the launch of LEED V4, new project registrations with the USGBC have fallen 75%! (source: Jerry Yudelson, July 2017). A dip is expected due to the rush to register…
"credentials aren’t nearly as important as competency” source @adamBraun founder of Pencils of Promise This fits with my developing theory regarding the relationship between letters after someones name on a business card Vs competency.....How many credentials on a business card are OK before you should run in the opposite direction?
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 115) - All IMHO: To get a high performance building that actually works the developer has to get lucky 4 times. I am talking about a building that works in the way a car works i.e. performs as designed, meets its aesthetic, energy,…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 114) - All IMHO:Riddle me this, who employs the commissioning firm? Sounds like an easy question? I was on an international project when the developer asked this and the design and construction team could not answer. Eye contact went everywhere and answers ranged…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 113) - All IMHO: When will it become unacceptable to design and build an energy inefficient, environmentally unfriendly building? Unacceptable can mean illegal but what I mean is socially unacceptable via the wisdom of public opinion. There was a time prior to 2008…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 112) - All IMHO: I have to rant this week. Will someone please tell me definitively, who is responsible on new construction for the staircase pressurization system? Please note I said system! Is it: Designer (Architect, MEP)? Main contractor? Mechanical contractor? Electrical…