SAFETY = LESS WASTE = LOWER COST

Fortunately, the importance of safety has been understood in the construction industry in general, although safety procedures are still lacking in some projects and especially in some countries.
Good safety on site is not only an issue of keeping accidents to a minimum, but it is also a cost saving to the project.
Consider the consequences of [...]

Member of THTH

Riqq Innovation was accepted to become a member of THTH this week. THTH (THTH Association of Decentralized Information Management for Industry) is an organisation where the Finnish companies and academia try to solve the problems of projectwide information management in industrial projects.
I participated in the annual meeting where I briefly presented our company. I was [...]

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 [...]

Lean Construction

Advanced project management processes have been developed a long time ago. For example, the theory for the widely acknowledged “lean construction” methodology leading to the “Last Planner” production planning system was introduced as far back as 1992. The publication of “Rethinking Construction“, also known as the “Egan Report” in the United Kingdom occurred in 1998. [...]

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 [...]