A lean handover is a process that aims to minimize waste and optimize efficiency in the transfer of a construction project from the construction team to the facility management team. It aims to eliminate the significant waste that exists in common turnover workflows today. … Read More
Building Technology
What is a Common Data Environment for Construction Projects?
Introduction It’s becoming common for owners to ask for a fully digital turnover for their capital projects. They may use the digital output to populate a maintenance management platform, or what’s becoming more common, to feed into a digital twin … Read More
QR Codes for Commissioning and Construction
QR (Quick Response) codes are a type of barcode that can be used to store various types of information such as text, URLs, images, and more. QR codes have many applications, but they are especially useful for commissioning and related work on construction projects. This article will explore the benefits and use cases for QR codes in commissioning, as well as how to create and store them. … Read More
Weathering the Storm of Productivity: Facing the Construction Industry’s Future
Productivity is quickly becoming the central concern in the property design and construction industry as project demands purport to increase while labor capacity decreases. PropTech and ConTech, like Bluerithm, are emerging to address productivity issues as building owners simultaneously increase … Read More
Don’t Plan to Fail: Preparing for a Fully Digital Turnover
Now is the time for contractors and commissioning providers to consider engaging a complete digital transformation of their workflow and products. More and more building owners are demanding contractors deliver a full digital turnover of their construction projects. Is this change a burden or an opportunity? … Read More
A Guide to Which Industries Use Commissioning Software
Building commissioning software is an adaptable, cloud-based platform enabling commissioning for building construction projects across numerous industries. Deployment occurs during all phases of buildings, plants, and facilities to ensure that all systems are operational and in working order. … Read More
Equipment Data Management
Bluerithm facilitates the transfer of massive amounts of data about equipment and assets, from design tools like Revit, into a comprehensive, collaborative platform that bridges the gap between design, field data collection and verification, and ultimately transfer to operations platforms (i.e. digital twins, maintenance management systems, etc.). … Read More
Explaining Building Commissioning Software: Its Purpose and Advantage
Software as a service (SaaS) products launched in the general public’s consciousness in the late 1990s with the advent of Salesforce. Today, everyone uses some form of SaaS product daily, whether free or paid. If you have a smartphone or … Read More
What is COBie?
There are many challenges that companies face when working with data and information. Getting data in a standardized format is a struggle many industries deal with. Companies spend countless hours cleaning data so that it can be used. There is … Read More
Kattera’s Failure and the Future of Property Design and Construction
Katerra might have crashed and burned, but “pioneers are oftentimes the losers. Then the other guys come behind it and figure out what they did wrong.” Disrupting existing supply chain models and novel pre-fabrication approaches are just examples of innovation … Read More