October 07, 2025
Explore how digital signatures are evolving into a three-dimensional system of trust — protecting every file, author & lifecycle through CONCERT.
July 22, 2025
Simplifying the process of adding team members with CONCERT’s new integration. Save time, reduce errors, and streamline collaboration.
June 23, 2025
Architects face a blank sheet problem with every new project. Concert automates project kickoff and keeps your momentum.
June 10, 2025
The 2025 AIA conference on Architecture highlighted how Architects are navigating uncertainty with optimism. CONCERT delivers certainty.
June 03, 2025
Concert delivers design certainty with its new AI powered functionality that can capture design deliverables from your contract.
May 27, 2025
AI promises to redefine the architectural practice. While most focus on design, using AI to redefine project delivery has greater promise.
May 21, 2025
AI in architectural project coordination is changing how architects manage projects—quietly improving the part of the job no one talks about.
April 16, 2025
Now you can request files for approval in Concert. Streamline project workflows with secure, trackable file requests and real-time reviews.
February 24, 2025
Architectural project management has historically focused on chasing time. A new paradigm for effective management focuses on deliverables
February 17, 2025
A resilient cities discussion for architects on building with real-time data, accurate workflows, sustainable materials, and digital twins.
February 10, 2025
Digital twins drives climate resilience, but only with smart data. Learn how data aggregation transforms buildings, cities & sustainability.
February 03, 2025
Enhance AEC collaboration with an Auditable Project File Registry for verifiable, transparent data tracking. Move beyond email with Concert.
January 27, 2025
Transform buildings into financial assets with digital twins. Protect & Manage it with Concert.
January 20, 2025
In the construction industry, bad data costs an estimated $1.84 trillion annually. Fourteen percent of all global rework is directly linked to errors from bad..
January 13, 2025
As industries worldwide adapt to rapid technological advancements, the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) sector must look beyond it
January 06, 2025
In recent years, the emphasis on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) compliance has surged across industries, This growth is driven by factors such as t
October 15, 2024
Can Blockchain & Digital Tools Transform AEC?: Timothy Dufault on Securing IP & Boosting Efficiency In the latest Birdflocks Talk, Tim Dufault, Chief Revenue Of
September 05, 2024
Streamline construction information sharing with Concert's new Acknowledgment of Receipt feature. Ensure recipients receive and acknowledge critical files, offe
August 05, 2024
Learn how to transition your AEC firm's communication from email to real-time collaboration with Concert. Follow our simple 5-step process to improve efficiency
July 22, 2024
Discover how Direct-to-Fabrication (DtF) is revolutionizing the AEC industry. Learn about its innovative capabilities, streamlined processes, and sustainable pr
July 15, 2024
Email was once a groundbreaking communication tool for AEC. However, as projects become more complex and teams more diverse, the limitations of email have becom
July 10, 2024
Concert is now SOC 2 Type I compliant, ensuring top-tier security, availability, and confidentiality for customer data. Learn more about our commitment to robus
July 08, 2024
Discover why email is failing your construction projects and how adopting secure, real-time collaboration tools like Concert can enhance efficiency, reduce risk
July 01, 2024
Business today depends on shared data. But every time your data goes out into the wild, you risk data being compromised, hacked, spoofed, or infected...
June 12, 2024
By Tim Dufault, FAIA, Chief Revenue Officer, Concert The American Institute of Architects (AIA) annual convention is always a highlight of my year. This year,..
February 24, 2024
How can we change the way we use data and digital tools to help improve our clients’ business, internal collaboration, and design development? Find the...
January 28, 2024
In 2022, AIA Contract Documents introduced groundbreaking templates enabling architects to share digital designs, marking a significant industry shift. Despite
January 18, 2024
By Tim Dufault, FAIA, Concert CRO For any given project type, location, schedule, or budget, there are at least ten local, regional, or national architecture...
December 19, 2023
by Zach Gentry – Concert CEO With market conditions challenged by higher interest rates, ongoing supply chain issues, and long-term labor shortages, design and
November 16, 2023
With Concert, you can expect your AI models to not only learn faster but also produce more accurate and actionable outputs.
August 01, 2023
Concert is excited to share a significant feature advancement to our toolset- a persistent record of the decision process.
July 11, 2023
Through reliable file fingerprints and our unified data log, Concert provides a seamless and secure environment for exchanging design and construction data.
June 05, 2023
by Tim Dufault – Concert CRO Architects inhabit a mismatched place in popular culture; they are either portrayed as creative geniuses and heroic figures or...
May 02, 2023
We are entering a new age of AI and chatbots. Most architectural firms are unprepared. One of the biggest vulnerabilities will be falsified identities. Concert
April 13, 2023
Concert CRO, Tim Dufault, will be participating in a panel discussion exploring how the immutable and transparent nature of blockchain is a perfect fit for the
April 10, 2023
Maintaining separate logs of shared information is wrong. A unified logging system is the answer for the design and construction industry.
April 03, 2023
The emergence of AI paired with Blockchain technologies has the potential to revolutionize the way that process is managed – by enabling the creation of secure
March 27, 2023
Reliance and reliability are key in the design and construction ecosystem. It is vital to understand that they have different contexts and applications.
March 19, 2023
The economic model of professional services limits the capacity of the architectural industry to innovate. Now is the time to change.
March 04, 2023
At Concert, we argue that the promise of BIM as a tool and process will not be fully realized until we understand the concept of inputs and outputs.
February 26, 2023
by ConcertVDC Concert strives to become the ultimate platform in data coordination for the design and construction industry. To achieve this, we are providing
February 21, 2023
Concert provides a conduit through which design, construction, and building operations can share and check their digital assets.
February 11, 2023
As the era Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerges, how can Architecture create value and protect the intellectual property (IP) of design?
February 06, 2023
by Adam Wilbrecht – Concert CPO Digitalization has been transforming industries worldwide, but the architecture and construction industry has lagged behind. Des
January 30, 2023
Concert Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and co-founder Tim Dufault has been appointed as a Public Director to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Board of...
January 24, 2023
by Zach Gentry – Concert CEO We are in the opening act of a new asset class built, maintained, and operated entirely within a computer....
January 13, 2023
What’s New Concert Offers MFA Signature with Permanent Record Today, Concert launched multi-factor authentication (MFA) on our platform for all digital signatur
November 30, 2022
by Zach Gentry – Concert CEO Most people by now have some familiarity with FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange that filed for bankruptcy on November 11...
November 21, 2022
by Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO Time is money – Do more with less Why do these simple phrases so aptly...
November 15, 2022
Adam Wilbrecht, AIA – Concert CPO What is value of the architect’s stamp and signature? At the most basic level these serve as a certification...
October 25, 2022
Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO Everyone is looking for the silver bullet – that one thing that solves all the world’s problems. The latest...
October 18, 2022
Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO At Concert, we are all in on digital project delivery, it is the future of design and construction. However,...
October 12, 2022
Leading digital transformation is essential for your company and requires a new kit of skills and tools to be successful. We provide insights and answers...
September 08, 2022
by ConcertVDC The first six modules of this series discussed the opportunity that the AIA Digital Practice Documents offer as a mechanism to define digital...
September 05, 2022
by Concert VDC Let’s face it, your data is everywhere and not under your control. In the past, files were created on software and computers...
August 26, 2022
by Concert VDC Tradition! Like Fiddler on the Roof, the means and methods of designing, documenting and constructing a building has a long tradition with...
August 21, 2022
by ConcertVDC In part three of this series, we discussed the opportunities that come with digital delivery, empowered by the AIA 2022 Digital Practice Documents
August 12, 2022
by Concert VDC Robotics, pre-fabrication, supply chain logistics, and building performance modeling are reshaping design and construction. They all require data
August 07, 2022
by Concert VDC The release of the 2022 AIA Digital Practice Documents opens a new door between design and construction. For some, this represents an...
August 01, 2022
by Concert VDC For centuries, paper-based drawings have been king in design and construction. It is embodied in movies, popular culture, and public perception.
July 25, 2022
Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO On July 20th, AIA Contract Documents released the 2022 versions of the E and G series of contract exhibits....
July 18, 2022
Tim Dufault, FAIA Concert CRO In cinema, a MacGuffin is an important element or character in the story, but one that doesn’t derive any significance...
July 05, 2022
Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO The American Institute of Architects (AIA) gathered in Chicago in late June for their first in-person Conference on Architectur
June 20, 2022
Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO I was in a conversation about transforming design and construction through digital delivery the other day and one of...
June 15, 2022
Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO The latest episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver focused its main topic on the issue of tech...
June 09, 2022
Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO Understanding the impact that building design and construction decisions have on global climate change is clearly shown in...
May 31, 2022
The building industry emits or creates 40% percent of the carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. Digital design will save the world. Learn how.
May 24, 2022
Meet CRGA Design President Sandy Goodman! Learn why she said, "“I have been waiting for [Concert] for 10 years!” and how it helps her firm.
May 17, 2022
“You and me, we come from different worlds.” – Only Wanna Be with You, Hootie & the Blowfish In the crypto world right now, there...
May 16, 2022
Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO In my post last week, I shared a personal reflection of how design and construction have evolved in my...
May 12, 2022
“King Jeremy, the wicked, ruled his world today.” – Jeremy, Pearl Jam Monday was a day which exposed the failure of crypto and its approach...
May 04, 2022
Tim Dufault, FAIA Concert CRO Design and construction have begun a new evolution as the digital integration of both industries is rapidly changing how value...
April 27, 2022
Zach Gentry Concert, CEO A digital twin is a digital replica of something real. The real thing could be anything. In NVIDIA Omniverse, the real...
April 22, 2022
“Popular! I’ll help you be popular! You’ll hang with the right cohorts” – Popular, Wicked In the crypto world, almost everyone wants to “do an...
April 11, 2022
Tim Dufault, FAIA Concert CRO Most people don’t know that there are only 121,000 licensed architects in the US, which equates to approximately 1 architect...
April 04, 2022
Zachary Gentry CEO, Concert Three recent projects inspire me to further reflection: Krista Kim Studios commissioned the first NFT digital house in the world.
March 31, 2022
By Tim Dufault, FAIA Concert CRO It seems like such a simple thing – communicate what we need, the value we deliver, and what we...
March 22, 2022
By Zach Gentry Concert CEO Virtual design & construction is centered on the idea that the physical world can be synthesized, evaluated, and simulated on...
March 16, 2022
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” Closing Time, Semisonic This image has been going around twitter, and it’s…wow! 2021 was quite..
March 10, 2022
“And if you don’t expect too much from me You might not be let down” Hey Jealousy, The Gin Blossoms With all the excitement around...
March 07, 2022
By Tim Dufault Concert CRO “the separation between past, present, and future has only the importance of an admittedly tenacious illusion” Albert Einstein, short
March 02, 2022
And I don’t want the world to see me ‘Cause I don’t think that they’d understand When everything’s made to be broken I just want...
February 22, 2022
Peter G. Smith, FAIA, Retired President and CEO of BWBR Architects, Inc. For all an architect’s creativity and skill in design and spacial innovation, the...
February 16, 2022
“Have you ever seen the rain?” – Creedence Clearwater Revival 100 million of us watched the Los Angeles Rams defeat the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday,...
February 14, 2022
By Tim Dufault FAIA CONCERT CRO Super Bowl Weekend is over, and the reviews are in – SoFi stadium was a hit. Across the board,...
February 09, 2022
The design & construction industry is drowning in data. We estimate that as many as 10.2 billion files are shared on construction projects, and Autodesk...
February 08, 2022
“I get knocked down, but I get up again You are never gonna keep me down.” – Tubthumping, Chumbawumba One of my friends said that...
February 01, 2022
“We can drive around this town. And let the cops chase us around.” – Hey Jealousy, The Gin Blossoms One of the hottest areas and...
January 31, 2022
One of the first lessons a young designer learns when they move into the professional services world is – Time is Money. There are exceptionally...
January 26, 2022
“The past is gone, but something might be found to take its place.” – Hey Jealousy, The Gin Blossoms I was talking with a...
January 24, 2022
Blockchain is difficult to describe in simple terms – mostly because the mechanisms that make the system secure and “financial-grade” are complex, widely distri
January 19, 2022
“Anywhere you go, I’ll follow you down.” – Follow You Down, The Gin Blossoms Bitcoin price on November 9th: $67,582. Bitcoin price today: $42,283. Difference:..
January 13, 2022
“If I had a million dollars, I’d be rich” – Barenaked Ladies Oh, how cute the 90s were. Andreesen Horowitz just announced it raised a...
January 11, 2022
Design and construction are messy, inherently filled with ambiguity and uncertainty about the outcome. For years, the industry has tried to create more certaint
“Bring your friends It’s fun to lose and to pretend” – Nirvana, Smells Like Teen Spirit So, for the first time in a long time...
January 06, 2022
OpenSea recently raised $300m at a breathtaking $13.3B valuation.*. This is up over 10x in less than a year. Wow. This makes it one of...
January 04, 2022
Shared from: https://iands.design/articles/45237/blockchain-tech-built-environment How Blockchain Technology Will Transform the Built Environment January 4, 2
Happy New Year to all! Every year moves faster and gets shorter, but that is just the reality of getting older – a year becomes...
December 21, 2021
The Challenge of File Management It happens all the time, you are working on a document, and you want to keep a record of the...
Why is web3 hot? Anyone following the tech world will have heard the term over and over again: web3. In past blogs, we’ve touched on what...
December 15, 2021
Should I Buy Crypto? I get asked this question a lot. “Should I buy Crypto?” Typically, it’s from a friend or family member. Usually, it’s accompanied...
December 10, 2021
What is DAO? If you hang out in the Web3 world, you will undoubtedly hear about DAOs and DAO tokens. Typically, it’s something like, “And...
December 07, 2021
In the world, HODL means Hold On for Dear Life. It feels appropriate in times like this, when major crypto assets, like bitcoin, are dropping...
December 06, 2021
The digital design revolution is here to stay! Consider the following: 40 years ago, digital design was restricted to the realm of large corporations with...
The digital design revolution is here to stay! Consider the following: • 40 years ago, digital design was restricted to the realm of large corporations...
November 30, 2021
Concert is a Web3 app When we started building Concert, Web3 did not yet exist — at least not the term. However, we recognized the...
November 29, 2021
Is COP26 Relevant? The COP26 Climate Action Conference ended with 31 significant pledges and statements of action. But do they matter? This is not the forum...
November 23, 2021
What are NFTs? You may have read an article about enormous sums of money being spent on NFTs, sometimes millions or tens of millions of...
November 16, 2021
Today marks a big day at Concert. Concert now lets you store the documents you share. (Plus, a lot more) Over the past few months,...
November 15, 2021
Collaborate: To work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor Design and construction should be, by their very nature, collaborati
November 09, 2021
WHAT ARE CRYPTO WALLETS? In crypto, people talk a lot about wallets and keys. Some of the particular types, hard wallets, soft wallets, cloud wallets,...
November 04, 2021
One bitcoin transaction consumes the average amount of energy used by a US household for 53 days. All crypto is estimated to use the same...
November 02, 2021
Meme Coins One of the hottest crypto topics, are so-called meme coins. In fact, two of the most popular, have coin market caps over $35B. SHIBA...
November 01, 2021
CLIMATE CHANGE DEMANDS A NEW DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION SYSTEM 2 A COMMITMENT TO ACTION Today marks the start of United Nations Climate Change Conference of...
October 28, 2021
The Big Cost of “Bad Data” This article summarizes the recently published white paper from Autodesk, “Harnessing the Data Advantage in Construction.” (https://t
October 26, 2021
The Internet of Things for Architects Buildings are reaching a new age when it comes to design, construction, and operation. We are now interested...
What is a Decentralized Exchange (DEX)? Anyone who is looking at DeFi, will quickly come across the canonical example of what it can do – a Decentralized Exchan
October 25, 2021
Climate Change Demands a New Design and Construction System. In the last two posts we discussed the idea that design and construction should be approached...
October 20, 2021
Managing the Information Supply Chain for Design Early in my architectural career the senior technical architect advised me, “don’t draw what you don’t know.”
October 19, 2021
Why DeFi? In the crypto world, and in the general press, we hear lots of talk about DeFi. Yet, it is still often misunderstood, or...
October 18, 2021
In our last post, we discussed the critical position of thinking about design and construction as an ecosystem that strives to achieve a balance of...
October 13, 2021
One of the core tenets at Concert is that design has value. Furthermore, we believe that digital design data should be shared to maximize this...
October 12, 2021
One term that comes up a lot in the crypto world is layer one. People often ask us here at Concert – what is your...
October 11, 2021
Creating a Shared Ecosystem in Design and Construction (Part One) Design and construction were historically linked – a team led by the architect to realize...
October 05, 2021
Proof of Storage Consensus In my last blog post – discussed many different types of consensus algorithms, including one called proof of storage, which...
October 04, 2021
Applied Leadership in a Technology Centric Business World Remember that adage – “We’re don’t want to be on the bleeding edge, but we’re fast...
September 29, 2021
An AEC Data Engine to Drive New Value Welcome to the fourth industrial revolution. In case you blinked and missed it, the third industrial...
September 27, 2021
Let’s get consensus – Part II In the last article, we touched on a proof of work consensus algorithm, as used for bitcoin. Proof...
September 26, 2021
TRUST IN A BLOCKCHAIN WORLD Businesses are changing and to remain as leaders in an information rich environment, and to build the trust of their...
September 02, 2021
Let’s get consensus! (Part I) One of the terms that comes up a lot when reading about the blockchain is the ‘consensus algorithm’ and...
August 30, 2021
Why Ethereum, Eth2 — and other options Early on at Concert, we all became excited by the idea of trust-mechanisms around blockchain technologies. Essentially,
July 26, 2021
Question: Why is there excitement around bitcoin and other crypto-assets? Noah: The easiest answer is two charts belows. The first one shows bitcoin, which i
July 20, 2021
Blockchain background: Part 1 Blockchain technologies have boomed in the past twelve years since Satoshi Nakomoto released his seminal paper on Bitcoin in Jan
June 30, 2021
Hello Workflows. Nice to meet you. You may have noticed some new capabilities within Concert recently. We added to Concert because we heard and watched...
May 26, 2021
Follow CONCERT on LinkedIn for more on the future of architecture. Space Caviar founder Joseph Grima recently chatted with Dezeen’s Editor-in-Chief Marcus Fairs
May 20, 2021
Follow CONCERT on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is paying attention to modular construction, with the goal of
May 19, 2021
Follow CONCERT on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. The Digital Twin Consortium describes itself as “a global ecosystem of users who are
May 11, 2021
Follow CONCERT on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. Asite recently published a whitepaper called “Digital Twins: Weaving the Golden Threa
May 06, 2021
Follow CONCERT on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. Robotic technologies for transforming architectural designs into building components
May 04, 2021
Follow CONCERT on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. This past April, the U.S. Institute of Building Documentation’s BIM Subcommittee publ
April 28, 2021
Follow CONCERT on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. It’s already clear that robots are useful for various building tasks that involve rep
April 26, 2021
Follow CONCERT on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. United States President Joe Biden’s two trillion USD infrastructure plan has garnered
April 19, 2021
Follow CONCERT on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. If you’re following Concert on LinkedIn, you’ll see we’re very interested in digital
April 14, 2021
Follow CONCERT on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. Chaired by Microsoft’s Salla Eckhardt, the National BIM Committee’s goal is to create
April 08, 2021
Follow CONCERT on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. To help you get the most out of the Concert Digital Exchange, we’ve launched...
February 23, 2021
Follow CONCERT on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. In our last installment, we discussed how digital assets and files can be certified w
Follow Concert on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. As new digital technologies arrive on building projects around the world, and as mas
February 03, 2021
Follow Concert on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. In our last instalment, we discussed the role of the architect in authorizing data fo
January 15, 2021
Follow Concert on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. Architectural practice has very old roots and some components of the practice have be
January 10, 2021
January 06, 2021
Follow Concert on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. In the current world, the handover event, when the contractor has completed construct
December 21, 2020
Follow Concert on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. New innovations are rapidly changing the fundamentals of the jobsite. According to An
November 20, 2020
Follow Concert on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. Ask any architect and they’ll tell you: everything is changing, fast. New technologie
Follow Concert on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. Many design and construction professionals note that the flow of information between
Follow Concert on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. Contractors, understandably, want to be involved in the building design process early
October 10, 2020
Follow Concert on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. The AEC industry is changing rapidly as a dizzying array of new digital technologies.
September 05, 2020
Follow Concert on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. Securing digital design data with high fidelity from design to operations is a way..
