Attaining A/E/C Market Prominence
Achieving market prominence connotes an imposing position that endures. It isn't luck. It can't be achieved by commercializing the latest fad. You don't get there by simply being in the right place at the right time. It belongs solely to those companies that consistently and repetitively do the right things, and it can be made to last for generations.
Joe Powell shares this conclusion having researched A/E/C market competitiveness at the Rice University Building Institute. And he shares strategies for increasing your firm's competitiveness |
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Improving the Building Process Through Partnership
The Rice University Building Institute is a university/industry partnership bringing construction industry leaders together for a common goal: improving interdisciplinary collaboration and increasing efficiency in the complex A/E/C project delivery process.
Through extensive research, encompassing a broad spectrum of themes, the Rice Building Institute harnesses integrated project delivery strategies in order to assist in the quest for improved industry performance while creating an interface with Rice University students and faculty. Build Houston sat down with Joe Powell, Rice Building Institute’s Executive Director, to take a closer look at this pioneering organization. |
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2009 SMPS National Think Tank
The Think Tank began with a keynote presentation by Joseph Powell, executive director of the RiceUniversity Building Institute, entitled “The New Competitiveness in Design and Construction.”
Powell shared data that came from a three-year study of industry leaders, owners, project managers,program managers, architects, engineers, general contractors, specialty contractors, and major subcontractors. The study encompassed surveys, interviews, and focus groups of the more than 300 participants. His conclusions formed the basis for his book, The New Competitiveness in Design and Construction (Wiley,2008) |
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Final Report Foundation SMPS Think Tank Feb 2009
The perfect storm that has transformed the global economy—caused by the collapse of the sub-prime lending market in 2007 and the subsequent investment banking and financial industry failures in the Fall of 2008—has acted like a tsunami to architecture, engineering, and construction firms around the world. It has caused what many are saying is the worst economy for the building industry in modern times. It is affecting firms working in both the residential and commercial real estate markets. |
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Rice research aims to grow local businesses
The Rice University Building Institute (RBI) has teamed up with seven nonprofit professional organizations to help Houston architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) businesses by offering them unprecedented access to the conclusions of a three-year research project.
RBI has extended $15,000 worth of scholarships to 12 local business men and women to attend a new workshop series aimed at helping them cultivate their companies. The seminars will explain a first-of-its-kind RBI study, which identified 12 actions AEC firms must take to attain and retain competitive advantage in the face of uncertain market conditions and an influx of international competition. |
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Package Won’t Outweigh Impact of Credit Crunch
With waves of bad news rolling in from Wall Street and Main Street, the Society of Marketing for Professional Services Foundation held a think tank to explore "The Upside of a Down Economy." Participants at the Feb. 20 conference in Atlanta found little in the way of an upside, but a panel of nine senior industry experts came away with a meaningful to-do list for firms hoping to cope—and even prosper—in an era of diminished opportunity. Read more… |
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Project Management Group aims to improve hospital construction process
mproving the construction process is the goal of a research consortium—the Rice Building Institute—that for two years has labored on an initiative to help contractors, architects and health care institutions find a better way to build new hospitals.
Joe Powell, executive director of the institute, a partnership between Rice University, Houston, and industry leaders, says the project grew out of a realization that the processes involved in new hospital conception, design and construction were overly complex, inefficient and outdated. Recognizing that, the Rice Building Institute, located on the Rice University campus, initiated a project designed to solicit input from health care construction stakeholders that will result in recommendations for improving the processes involved in hospital construction. |
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Design / Construction Delivery Alternatives Chart |
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Building Better Buildings
Design, bid, and build: While this is the traditional way to construct a building, does it still work? |
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