by Clay Smith | Mar 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
We all know that the goal of any building information modeling (BIM) technology is efficiency: to reduce unnecessary tasks, eliminate the duplication of work, and introduce tools to make things more efficient and less wasteful. But technology is only part of the...
by Clay Smith | Jul 17, 2020 | All
This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series McKinsey Report The June, 2020 McKinsey & Company report, “The next normal in construction,” refers to construction as the world’s largest ecosystem, and indeed when change happens, it now happens on a global scale. Such is...
by Clay Smith | Jul 9, 2020 | All, Uncategorized
Offsite production used to be a “nice to have” process. Now it is becoming essential to business survival. This statement may cause a few raised eyebrows, but it is just one reality emerging from the changes taking place in the current business climate. Before the...
by Clay Smith | Nov 25, 2019 | All, Electrical, Mechanical
Billy Beane of Moneyball fame spoke at Connect & Construct Summit , the opening day of Autodesk University 2019. For those of you who are not baseball fans, Billy was the general manager of the Oakland A’s in the early 2000s. With the help of a data...
by Clay Smith | Sep 12, 2019 | All, Electrical, Mechanical
In collecting my thoughts after MEP Force two weeks ago in San Antonio, a few things are apparent. Everyone is busier than they’ve ever been, and the labor shortage is not going away. Despite the daily grind, the better companies are committed to continuous...
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