Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 332). What makes a good project or commissioning manager? I have been asked this several times and for firms looking to promote people into management and leadership roles this is a difficult question to answer. Promoting someone who is not ready to…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 331). "Design me a building and I am OK paying for design errors and omissions", said no client ever! However, building design and construction is an unusual business. For design, bid build projects the owner pays for design errors and omissions via…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 330). Our guest this episode is Francisco Valentine PE talking about his book on BAS & building controls and his take on the current state of building services engineering training i.e. the type of training that is actually useful and explains “how…
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Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 329). Our guest this episode is Joe Hughes from IAQ Radio and the IAQ Training Institute talking about IAQ Radio plus IAQ + IEQ in the built environment. If you enjoy the Edifice Complex, please subscribe on YouTube and / or leave…
More control, automation, and flexibility BlueRithm just released a new killer feature. You can now add custom validation rules to your forms and checklists. You can add multiple rules per form using AND, and OR logic. The rules are easy to add to templates and automatically carry over to projects…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 328). What really drives sustainability? To put this another way, how can the market be nudged or even forced towards low carbon buildings? Given there seems to be agreement on the need for more high performance buildings I am disappointed in the…
Quality, Consequences and the Construction Industrial Complex (part 327). Why is building commissioning even a thing? There are 2 reasons: Trust, or rather a lack of trust. Inconsistency. The building design and construction process cannot consistently deliver, low defect, operationally ready buildings. Trust Building commissioning and validation is an emergent…