The COBie2 Challenge: What’s Good and What’s to Come

On St. Patrick’s day in March, nine vendors presented to a live audience of 50 or so industry professionals as a part of the COBie2 Challenge at the NFMT conference in Baltimore, Maryland.   The results of this challenge were recently posted to the COBie site.

COBie Challenge participants ready to demonstrate compliance live.

Why is [...]

The Digital Asset for Owners and Operators

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Paper-based as-built documentation is insanity. The digital asset is here.

Recently, leading owners, who put a high volume of construction in place on an annual basis, are leveraging the power of Enterprise Field Management solutions and structured Quality Programs, to [...]

Series Part 2: Architect's Field Report and the Standard of Care

Progress, Quality, Deviations, Defects and Deficiencies…continued from Part 1 of the "at the point of construction" series

Contractor’s Field Reports. Field reports, also referred to as daily logs and daily details, for contractors and construction managers, are somewhat different than that of the Architect's Field Report. In addition to the areas described on the [...]

At the Point of Construction: Architect's Field Report and the Standard of Care

Part one in a two-part series: Progress, Quality, Deviations, Defects and Deficiencies…

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) B Series of contract documents structures the standard relationship between the owner and the architect. B101–2007 (formerly B151–1997), “Standard Form of Agreement Between Owner and Architect” is the basic agreement, a one-part standard form of agreement [...]