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…
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…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 138). Following last weeks piece on Carillion, I received some interesting questions. While most people are familiar with their own part in the P3 project process, many do not understand the full life cycle. This is my summary of the P3 project…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 137). There are more Carillion's out there. Why? Because a modern construction firm is a game of liars poker, a cash flow Ponzi scheme. Harsh words and many will not agree, but this is all IMHO. In 2018, a construction firm that…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 136). Our guest this month (dropping, February 15th) is Lloyd Alter, talking about Net Zero, using less and designing for greater effectiveness. Lloyd Alter has been an architect, developer, inventor and prefab promoter. Lloyd was past president of the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario…
"PFI (P3 for Canadians) gives capitalism a bad name” - By Liam Halligan of The Daily Telegraph UK. IMHO, this is the unspoken truth about P3 and a Carillion type event is coming to Canada in the future…….
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 135). Back in the day, fee for service was the way to make money. It went something like this: Go to college or university (with little or zero debt) and get a technical qualification i.e. develop advantage via knowledge power. Become licensed or…