The key problem of building systems and technologies today: Currently most architecture, engineering, construction, and operations firms leave most individual part manufacturing and installation details to be analyzed, organized, and implemented on-site. Actual control is not implemented at the explicit direction of the builder/general contractor...but rather at the interpretation level of the subcontractors, suppliers, and/or the installers. Most construction documents do not meet the true definition of the word: “plans”. Most construction today is implemented with little more than 2-D dimensioned renderings of the floorplan and exterior elevations of the finished product (even though the jobsite has always been 3-D). These “dimensioned 2-D renderings” are being distributed by the general contractors to the subcontractors and suppliers. This common process unfortunately provides very little process-specific information that efficient for the subcontractors, fabricators, and/or installers who are actually fabricating the parts and/or installing the products on-site to carry on their work without interpretation. As a result, no one performing this work has a real “plan”, but something right or wrong will get done, if the subcontractor wants to submit a payment request… In an effort to gain ground in industry networking, project time tracking, document management, and material procurement... software and Internet developers have developed some useful administration products and web functionality but highly ignored tools that truly tie the actual construction design, specification, manufacturing, and installation processes together in a seamless way. This lack of an effective and efficient synchronized construction management system that empowers a 3-D workflow for constructing 3-D buildings on an always 3-D jobsite holds the industry hostage to itself. As a result, very few facility managers/homeowners have any accurate knowledge or control of their as-built assets they have ownership or maintenance responsibilities of. Subsequently, very few people in the service industry have any accurate or even semi-accurate knowledge about what they are being called to service efficiently. The present result: Enormous Inefficiency + Very Little Predictability!!! |
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P.S.: Results will vary depending on your own "coachability", project and company set-up, and staffing conditions. |