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Another year closing, time really does fly when you are having a great time. This will be my last post in 2018 and I want to sincerely thank everyone who takes the time to read my self medicating, rambling thoughts on the crazy that is the built environment design and…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 175). Our guest this episode is John Williams, MEP and sustainability design manager for the Mexico City airport project. If you enjoy this episode, share it with friends and give us a review on iTunes. In this episode, we…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 174). At the end of 2018 I am starting to reflect on the good and bad projects. However, I keep coming back to ductwork installations, they must be really difficult, right? We can put a man on the moon, Elon Musk…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 173). NLP training teaches you to listen, I mean really listen. If you listen to peoples “unfiltered” conversational language you can identify if their primary sense i.e. their preferred information intake path, is visual, verbal or kinaesthetic and then tailor your communications…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 172). I have an evolving theory. The number of letters after someones name on their business card is inversely proportional to how good they are at their job. Last month I was given a business card from an “engineer”…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 171). Our guest this episode is Saeed Al Abbar, Chairman of the Emirates Green Building Council and Board Member of the World Green Building Council. The sound quality can be a little uneven in this episode. When we recorded…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 170). Now what? No, I am not talking about the death of acronyms, although that would be a great idea. I am talking about the beginning of the end for PFI / P3 / DBFM. In the UK, the Chancellor of…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 169). Building code compliance consulting is NOT building commissioning. Building code compliance consultants, please stop pretending to be commissioning subject matter experts. There is a trend in some countries for building code compliance consultants to convince their clients that building commissioning…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 168). Rising Factories, now this is progress. What is your response North America? I can’t hear you…….. I am a huge fan of pre-fabrication to minimize onsite work. Rising Factories take things to whole new level. Mace, a UK construction firm has…