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May 16, 2022Digital Delivery in Concert
Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO In my post last week, I shared a personal reflection of how design and construction have evolved in my…
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May 12, 2022#CryptoFail
“King Jeremy, the wicked, ruled his world today.” – Jeremy, Pearl Jam Monday was a day which exposed the failure of crypto and its approach…
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May 04, 2022Time Travel: How technology and architecture have changed.
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…
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May 03, 2022Solana goes down…again.
“Where Were You When I Needed You?” – Where Were You When I Needed You, The Grass Roots On Saturday, the Solana network went down…
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Apr 27, 2022CONCERT and Digital Twins
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…
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Apr 22, 2022What makes NFT collections successful?
“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…
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Apr 11, 2022The Architect and the Metaverse: Is there a place for the professional architect in a virtual world?
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…
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Apr 06, 2022On Crypto: Death and Taxes
Because from those total wages earned Down to that net amount that’s due I feel the painful sense of loss between the two – After…
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Apr 04, 2022The Metaverse of Architecture
Zachary Gentry CEO, Concert Three recent projects inspire me to further reflection: Krista Kim Studios commissioned the first NFT digital house in the world. Architectural…
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Mar 31, 2022Design Communication -Why is it so hard?
By Tim Dufault, FAIA Concert CRO It seems like such a simple thing – communicate what we need, the value we deliver, and what we…
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Mar 30, 2022$600 Million in crypto…gone!
“Lookin’ for somethin’ to help me burn out bright And I’m lookin’ for a complication Lookin’ cause I’m tired of lyin’” – Foo Fighters, Learn…
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Mar 24, 2022Crypto and Sanctions and Russia…Oh My!
“How was I supposed to know that something wasn’t right here?” – Baby One More Time, Britney Spears Recently, there have been many reports of…
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Mar 22, 2022Mind the Model Gap
By Zach Gentry Concert CEO Virtual design & construction is centered on the idea that the physical world can be synthesized, evaluated, and simulated on…
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Mar 16, 2022The end of the beginning
“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…
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Mar 10, 2022What are you trying to tell me?
“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…
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Mar 07, 2022Out of Time
By Tim Dufault Concert CRO “the separation between past, present, and future has only the importance of an admittedly tenacious illusion” Albert Einstein, shortly before…
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Mar 02, 2022Minting an NFT
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…
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Feb 23, 2022Should I buy some NFTs?
“I still haven’t found, what I’m looking for.” – U2 A year ago, everyone was asking, “Should I buy bitcoin?” Or, “Which token should I…
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Feb 22, 2022It is time for a new paradigm in the business of architecture
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…
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Feb 16, 2022Building a stadium’s roof with an NFT
“Have you ever seen the rain?” – Creedence Clearwater Revival 100 million of us watched the Los Angeles Rams defeat the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday,…
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Feb 14, 2022Parametrics in Design
By Tim Dufault FAIA CONCERT CRO Super Bowl Weekend is over, and the reviews are in – SoFi stadium was a hit. Across the board,…
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Feb 09, 2022CONCERT and Data Management
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…
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Feb 08, 2022Crypto comes back
“I get knocked down, but I get up again You are never gonna keep me down.” – Tubthumping, Chumbawumba One of my friends said that…
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Feb 01, 2022Thinking about crypto from a regulatory/legal framework
“We can drive around this town. And let the cops chase us around.” – Hey Jealousy, The Gin Blossoms One of the hottest areas and…
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Jan 31, 2022The Value of Design
One of the first lessons a young designer learns when they move into the professional services world is – Time is Money. There are exceptionally…
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Jan 26, 2022To be answered in the crypto world. . .
“The past is gone, but something might be found to take its place.” – Hey Jealousy, The Gin Blossoms I was talking with a…
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Jan 24, 2022Distributed – By and for Design
Blockchain is difficult to describe in simple terms – mostly because the mechanisms that make the system secure and “financial-grade” are complex, widely distributed, and…
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Jan 19, 2022Buy the Dip (from the crypto community)
“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:…
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Jan 13, 2022$9B raised for Web3
“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…
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Jan 11, 2022It’s a bear, bear, bear, bear world
“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…
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Jan 11, 2022Can You Manage Uncertainty?
Design and construction are messy, inherently filled with ambiguity and uncertainty about the outcome. For years, the industry has tried to create more certainty and…
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Jan 06, 2022OpenSea…OMG!
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…
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Jan 04, 2022How Blockchain Technology Will Transform the Built Environment
Shared from: https://iands.design/articles/45237/blockchain-tech-built-environment How Blockchain Technology Will Transform the Built Environment January 4, 2022 Contributed Author Buildings today are complex ecosystems built by…
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Jan 04, 2022Will 2022 be the year of Transformation?
Happy New Year to all! Every year moves faster and gets shorter, but that is just the reality of getting older – a year becomes…
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Dec 21, 2021Why is web3 hot?
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…
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Dec 21, 2021The Challenge of File Management
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…
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Dec 15, 2021Should I Buy Crypto?
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…
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Dec 10, 2021What is DAO?
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…
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Dec 07, 2021HODL
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…
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Dec 06, 2021Digitally Delivered
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…
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Dec 06, 2021Digitally Delivered
The digital design revolution is here to stay! Consider the following: • 40 years ago, digital design was restricted to the realm of large corporations…
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Nov 30, 2021Concert is a Web3 App
Concert is a Web3 app When we started building Concert, Web3 did not yet exist — at least not the term. However, we recognized the…
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Nov 29, 2021Is COP26 Relevant?
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…
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Nov 23, 2021What are NFTs?
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…
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Nov 16, 2021Full Concert
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,…
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Nov 15, 2021The Key to Real Collaboration
Collaborate: To work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor Design and construction should be, by their very nature, collaborative processes. It is…
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Nov 09, 2021What are crypto wallets?
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,…
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Nov 04, 2021Can crypto become more environmentally friendly?
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…
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Nov 02, 2021Meme Coins
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…
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Nov 01, 2021Climate Change Demands a New Design and Construction System 2: A Commitment to Action
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…
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Oct 28, 2021The Big Cost of “Bad Data”
The Big Cost of “Bad Data” This article summarizes the recently published white paper from Autodesk, “Harnessing the Data Advantage in Construction.” (https://tinyurl.com/43js62t4) Autodesk estimates…
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Oct 26, 2021What is a Decentralized Exchange (DEX)?
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 Exchange…
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Oct 26, 2021The Internet of Things for Architects
The Internet of Things for Architects Buildings are reaching a new age when it comes to design, construction, and operation. We are now interested…
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Oct 25, 2021Climate Change Demands a New Design and Construction System.
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…
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Oct 20, 2021Managing the Information Supply Chain for Design
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.” …
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Oct 19, 2021Why DeFi?
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…
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Oct 18, 2021Creating a Shared Ecosystem in Design and Construction (Part Two)
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…
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Oct 13, 2021Protecting Design Value
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…
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Oct 12, 2021Layer One
One term that comes up a lot in the crypto world is layer one. People often ask us here at Concert – what is your…
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Oct 11, 2021Creating a Shared Ecosystem in Design and Construction (Part One)
Creating a Shared Ecosystem in Design and Construction (Part One) Design and construction were historically linked – a team led by the architect to realize…
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Oct 05, 2021Proof of Storage is here now
Proof of Storage Consensus In my last blog post – discussed many different types of consensus algorithms, including one called proof of storage, which…
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Oct 04, 2021Applied Leadership in a Technology Centric Business World
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…
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Sep 29, 2021An AEC Data Engine to Drive New Value
An AEC Data Engine to Drive New Value Welcome to the fourth industrial revolution. In case you blinked and missed it, the third industrial…
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Sep 27, 2021Let’s get consensus – Part II
Let’s get consensus – Part II In the last article, we touched on a proof of work consensus algorithm, as used for bitcoin. Proof…
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Sep 26, 2021Trust in a Blockchain World
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…
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Sep 02, 2021Let’s get consensus! (Part I)
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…
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Aug 30, 2021Why Ethereum…?
Why Ethereum, Eth2 — and other options Early on at Concert, we all became excited by the idea of trust-mechanisms around blockchain technologies. Essentially, the…
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Jul 26, 2021Blockchain Q&A
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 is…
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Jul 20, 2021Blockchain Background – Part I
Blockchain background: Part 1 Blockchain technologies have boomed in the past twelve years since Satoshi Nakomoto released his seminal paper on Bitcoin in January…
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Jun 30, 2021Hello Workflows. Nice to meet you. New updates released on Concert
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…
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May 26, 2021Non-Extractive Architecture Examines Ways to Reduce Impact on the Planet
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 about non-extractive architecture, an idea that’s emerging as…
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May 20, 2021Assembly-Line Robotics Build Promise for Modular Construction Innovations
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 creating…
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May 19, 2021Getting Industries on the Same Page with Digital Twin Terminology
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 driving best…
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May 11, 2021Insights on the Collaborative Power of Digital Twins and Open Data
Follow CONCERT on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. Asite recently published a whitepaper called “Digital Twins: Weaving the Golden Thread.” It explains how…
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May 06, 2021Three Technologies that are Making Strides for 3D Printed Architecture
Follow CONCERT on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. Robotic technologies for transforming architectural designs into building components have advanced to the point…
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May 04, 2021Three Ways that BIM Extends Value to Building Owners and Operators
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 published its white…
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Apr 28, 2021Five Innovative Things Architects Can Now Do With Robots
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 repetitive work…
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Apr 26, 2021Five Perspectives from Architects on the United States Infrastructure Plan
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 some attention since it…
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Apr 19, 2021Three Essential Things Architects Need to Know About Digital Twins
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 twins….
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Apr 14, 2021National BIM Standard Set to Align Digital Best Practices for AECOO Industries
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 a…
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Apr 08, 2021New Features Make Keeping Track of Your Team’s Projects Even Easier
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…
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Feb 23, 2021Pillars of Trust in Digital Architecture: A Three-Part Overview
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 massive…
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Feb 23, 2021How to Certify Architectural Data for Robotic Automation Processes
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 with…
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Feb 03, 2021A Trusted File Registry Is the Backbone of Digital Architecture
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 for…
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Feb 03, 2021A Trusted File Registry Is the Backbone of Digital Architecture
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 for…
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Jan 15, 2021The Digital Future of the Architect’s Professional Signature
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 been…
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Jan 10, 2021Pillars of Trust in Digital Architecture: A Three-Part Overview
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 massive…
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Jan 06, 2021Digitalized Architecture: Data Driven Opportunities in the Operations Phase
Follow Concert on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. In the current world, the handover event, when the contractor has completed construction and…
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Dec 21, 2020How Trusted Data Is Essential to the Construction Supply Chain
Follow Concert on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. New innovations are rapidly changing the fundamentals of the jobsite. According to Andrew Anagnost,…
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Nov 20, 2020Architecture Will Be Central to the Digitalization of the Built Environment
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 technologies are…
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Nov 20, 2020Secure Data Exchange: A Foundation for Design and Construction Collaboration
Follow Concert on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. Contractors, understandably, want to be involved in the building design process early – to…
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Nov 20, 2020BIM Is More Than Software. It’s an Essential Process that Spans the Building Lifecycle.
Follow Concert on LinkedIn for more on the digital future of architecture. Many design and construction professionals note that the flow of information between design and…
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Oct 10, 2020A Five Part Series on the Digitalized Future of Architecture
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…
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Sep 05, 2020Christine Cavataio Explains the Last Mile to Full Digital Delivery in Architecture
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…