The Commercial Real Estate Revolution: Nine Transforming Keys to Lowering Costs, Cutting Waste, and Driving Change in a Broken Industry
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As it currently operates, the commercial real estate construction industry is a disaster full of built-in waste. Seventy-percent of all projects end over budget and late. The buildingSMART Alliance estimates that up to fifty-percent of the process is consumed in waste. Almost every project includes massive hidden taxes in the form of delays, cost overruns, poor quality, and work that has to be redone. Building new structures is a fragmented, adversarial process that… More >>
This truly groundbreaking book is not an evolution. It is, as it says, a revolution. The Mindshift experiment that led to this book acknowledged and documented the problems in the industry we all experience. Then, rooted in the ideas of Covey’s “Speed of Trust”, they ventured into Blue Ocean territory exploring a whole new way of working together. The challenges we face will not be transformed with a technical fix. This book outlined the adaptive change that can usher in a new day.
Trust and collaboration are the capital of the Future. This book teaches you where to find it and how to spend it to achieve sustainable structures of real value.
Rating: 5 / 5
They had me at Hello! This book is packed with information and examples of how to repair outmoded building practices. It uses an easy-read, informative, humorous style that illustrates how 9 keys have been successful for large and small projects throughout the U.S. Collaboration and communication is the answer for lowering costs, reducing waste and building sustainable. Read this book; you’ll be motivated to become the change that transforms our broken industry.
Rating: 5 / 5
For those of us in the design and construction industry, the past several years have been disorienting. Rapid change has rendered our previous ways of doing things ineffective. It probably goes without saying that the future belongs to those who not only understand the shift but who also move quickly to innovate.
Rex Miller, Dean Strombom, Mark Iammarino and Bill Black–not only offer stunning clarity on the state of the industry, but also outline a path forward.
This little book isn’t just the “business book of the week.” It is the manifesto that could change the industry.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have not finished the book yet. In a way I hope I never will(!) because it illuminates, storyboards, and routes us out of the mess we are all in in a way that is (I rarely say this about non-fiction) mesmerizing. The writers CERTAINLY have been shadowning me clandestinely and watching me flounder in the DBB (design-bid-build) tar pits for years. Otherwise, how could they know so much about the bog we wallow every single day? The insights are spooky. Is my office bugged? But the mesmerizing part is the viability, the plausibility of an emerging Better Way that won’t cause “good people [like me!] to do bad things.” This is book of structured hope. It is substantive without being preachy or wistful or redundant. Back to reading!
Rating: 5 / 5
This book builds a business case for creating less expensive, higher-quality, and sustainable green buildings that meet the needs of builders and users. It provides a simple model that demonstrates how owners can develop a sustainable building, and reduce their construction costs.
The book illuminates how competent contractors with the best intentions are constrained by inefficiencies of an out-dated process. It gives owners a roadmap to enable the process. Rex Miller presents the case for moving from a paradigm of deciding, designing, and delivering buildings to one of strategic alliances with earlier engagement by key stakeholders that have financial incentive for performance.
Leaders from top companies in the industry present the research and case studies, which prove that this concept can go beyond fixing the process, to transform it. This book is a must-read for anyone who is involved in building construction.
Rating: 5 / 5