Build Wise

As the first employee at Enstoa, I have participated in over 100 system implementations since our inception in 2007. In my experience, the capital projects team has been the most expensive cost center per employee. Their technology needs are seldom understood and are often overlooked. These teams go by various names such as physical assets, facilities management / real estate, design and construction but their primary objective is to manage the construction and maintenance of all revenue generating assets.

What-ifs - I love doing "What-ifs" and "Time Impact Analyses", even risk workshops; they break the drudgery of the dreaded monthly report.

Recently I have let myself mull over a few compelling "What-ifs."

What if… we didn't have to waste, I mean spend, hours maintaining our own "database" of project costs and then reconcile them against Finance's "system of record?"

It’s shaping up to be a steady-as-she-goes kind of year in U.S. building. June was a soft month for megaprojects overall, but estimates say that overall 2019 construction starts in the U.S. will stay fairly level with last year. In the meantime, some truly interesting trends are playing out in the nonresidential construction space. They reveal much not only about key industry drivers, but the world at large.