Category Archives: process
My Back Pages
Ah, but I was so much older then I’m younger than that now This is how someone considers buying a book. A physical book. They look at the cover. They turn it over and read the back cover. If compelled … Continue reading
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Building Knowledge in Architecture
Using books as floatation devices is nothing new. Cradle to Cradle, subtitled Remaking the Way We Make Things, is printed on waterproof paper for this reason. Poetry anthologies served this purpose after 9/11 as did commonplace books carried by soldiers. … Continue reading
The Value of Versatility
The DesignIntelligence website just posted an article I wrote, also published in the May/June technology issue of their printed journal, entitled BIM Beyond Boundaries. The hard copy of the journal will cost you $365. And while this also gets you … Continue reading
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Why Bring Another Book into this World?
Here’s the transcript of the talk I’ll be giving in San Francisco next week at KA Connect 2011, a Pecha Kucha talk entitled “I’ll Collaborate as Long as I Can Work Alone,” 20 slides, 20 seconds each. Let me know … Continue reading
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PREFAB, BIM and IPD
With the announcement last week that the world’s tallest prefabricated steel structure, a 34-story entirely prefab affordable housing tower, will be erected in the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn NY, it’s an opportune time to touch on the subject of … Continue reading
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System Requirements for IPD to Flourish
We all know with each release of software the computer system requirements increase. Our computers must get more powerful as the software does. And also as the work processes become more collaborative, with more information sharing taking place. This is … Continue reading
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How to Learn Revit in 1000 Difficult Lessons
In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. – Eric Hoffer No matter where you fall on the BIM continuum, … Continue reading
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36 Arguments for the Existence of BIM
After riffing in this blog for over 18 months on the subject of BIM and Integrated Design, and after conducting extensive research for my book by the same name, I’ve become convinced that the world of design and construction is … Continue reading
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BIM and Integrated Design: the College Curriculum
This is a first. I don’t know of any situation where a university course – let alone a curriculum – was named after a blog. There are no Huffington Post studies, and one would need to look long and hard … Continue reading
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The Perpetual Improvement of Lean Design
I was asked recently to speak at the Lean Construction Institute’s Project Production Systems Laboratory Design Forum in Berkeley CA next week. LCI P2SL in leanspeak. While much has been written about waste – resources, material, time, money – in … Continue reading
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