Ask Your Software Vendor to Prove How They Add to Project Productivity

Whenever you are making any desicion to change or add anything that incfluences your construction project, you should always keep in mind who it effects the whole project. A very important question to ask is “How this will improve my whole project organisation?”
Let’s take software as an example. If you are getting a new design [...]

The Architect – Artist, Designer or Team Player?

I know quite many architects. Some professionally, some personally. There are even some in my family.
Many times I’ve been wondering what are the best qualities for a modern successful architect. Here are some of my thoughts. You tell me how it’s really is?
Artist. Is is vital to be creative and individual? Yes, I believe so. Unique creations [...]

Power-Gen Europe 2008 and some extra challenges.

Power-Gen Europe 2008 will take place in Milan, Italy next week. I will be attending the show to back up our cooperation partners from the CSC Consortium. CSC Consortium has people with individual Riqq certificates in areas of design (Virkkunen & Co), plant design (Intechno) and site management (Tapro Engineering Services). Other members in the consortium [...]

Security is vital also in a building project

A new serious vulnerability notice was announced yesterday.  Core Security announced a DOS (denial-of-service) vulnerability in the Wonderware Suitelink software suite. This vulnerability allows hackers to remotely cause the software to terminate. Suitelink is a SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) software that controls the process automation in major facilities such as power stations.
DHS/US-CERT has also made [...]

Let’s ban the use of files!

Let’s face it. I hate computer files. They cause nothing but problems. When your data is stored on a file (regardless of the format), there will eventually be a new version of it. And because you did sent that previous version out, you will have to resend this one as well. If you remember.
Ok. There [...]

Construction waste management

Whilst participating in the Institute of Clerk of Works conference in Glasgow, Scotland on April 25th to 27th I attended an interesting seminar regarding construction waste management: exploring ways of reducing waste from the design stage all the way to the to the end of life concluding with the effects that this has on buildings [...]

BIM is good, but it’s not enough

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is one of the key concepts required for successful information management throughout the project. BIM works as the center of the design phase and is a must for any construction design practitioner. Besides of being important for the design disciplines, it’s an enabler for quick creation and uniformity of data for the rest of the [...]

Will the budget hold?

A very common question that everybody needs to face in their life. People will try to hold onto it, and most of the time they will.
But not in the business of building. In the beginning there is a budget, which has good reasoning for it. And then – very, very often in the end the [...]

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Welcome!
This is a blog for those interesting in solving the huge paradigm of effective management of a building project.
We have been fed up for some time with the fact that many, many buildings are being finished late from the schedule, over the budget and with lower than expected quality.
We believe that these problems can be solved.
We [...]