Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 313). The most powerful single word, open question is, "how"? For example, how, are you or your firm qualified to bid and work on this project? One of the reasons projects fail is because unqualified, low capacity, low capability firms win the…
Looking forwards to attending the CIBSE Building Performance Awards dinner on Feb 24th. If you are attending message me, we can have a drink and talk about industry state of play. AESG are up for at award, so fingers crossed. @CIBSEAwards #BPA2022 #CIBSE #AESG #Edificecomplexpodcast
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 312). Our guest this episode is Duncan Phillips of RWDI talking about high rise buildings and stack effect. If you enjoy the Edifice Complex, please subscribe on YouTube and / or leave a review at Apple iTunes , it helps more than…
There are many ways Bluerithm helps you fight back against commoditization. Giving full-fledged text editing tools for your test forms, design reviews, meeting minutes, and anything else from your projects that all feed into a top-notch report builder is one of them. Have you seen what Bluerithm reports look like these days?…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 311). The basic business model for private sector property development is: Buy a property or parcel of land, at or below market value. Knock down whatever is there and rebuild something new, bigger and better. Sell for a profit or lease out…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 310). A project quantity surveyor (PQS) once told me, "you commissioning firms are like rhinoceroses, you are thick skinned and charge a lot". He was referring to the way commissioning costs on the project had escalated. I asked two questions: Why was…