Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 237). Where does building commissioning go to from here? There are three macro factors that I think will change building commissioning: Advances and deployment of technology such as IoT and 5G. Demographic changes resulting is an industry wide shortage of experience and…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 236). "Managers manage the known and leaders manage the unknown" (Tim Armstrong on The Prof G Podcast). "What is essential, is invisible" (the Prince and the Pauper) I would add to this, MEP Commissioning Managers manage the chaos, the known and the…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 235). Our guests this episode (April 15, 2020) are Eliot Benor and James Fish of Building Envelop Testing LLC talking about building envelop commissioning. “If you build it, we will come……then we will spray water on it for 15 mins!” If you…
Edifice Complex podcast host Robert Bean tells how humidity can impact virus transmission in Globe & Mail. Let this sink in; Bean said "international research has shown that less than five per cent of buildings currently comply with ASHRAE’s standard dictating the environmental conditions for human occupancy, which includes relative…
I hope things are well and that you and your family have stayed safe. BlueRithm Commissioning Software wanted to let you know about incentives they are offering right now. In addition to the regular 15% discount and waived fees to convert your custom forms you’d get with annual billing, BlueRithm…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 234). Bravo to LEED certification for increasing awareness of Building Envelope Commissioning (BECx) and shame on LEED certification for letting it evolve into a meaningless paperwork exercise. To get value from BECx you have to do it properly. To be clear BECx…
