Construction as a System

Construction’s long, steady decline has turned into something far worse – especially in healthcare, where hospital costs are growing at an alarming and unsustainable rate. A radical change is needed to overcome our severely stagnated and waste-filled state. We need construction reform thats driven by measurable process and value improvement.
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Building CATALYST’s mission is help lead construction reform. Our contribution is the replacement of construction's cacophony of silos with a holistic platform: Construction as a System - across the entire team and essential processes - from early planning to occupancy.
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The Data Knows the Problems And their Causes

National macroeconomic data research shows a strong correlation between the growth of negotiated first tier (CM, IPD, etc.) contracting and the decades of excessive cost escalation. A deeper, microeconomic data research of 35 hospitals shows an even stronger correlation between negotiated second tier (trade and prefabrication) contracting and the extraordinary surge in hospital costs.

These articles provide a comprehensive analysis of the problems, their causes, and a roadmap for construction reform. They identify misaligned incentives and the lack of knowledge as the central causes that must, and can be, readily solved.
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solving the problem

The case for construction as a system

The above “WATCH IN ACTION” videos illustrate how profound knowledge and automation transform planning, budgeting, design decision-making, and cost management. Our Intelligent Automation System (IAS) provides the first step to construction reform by solving the lack of knowledge problem.
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Our Construction as a System (CaaS) approach also provides a Value-based Contracting System (VCS) that solves the misaligned incentives problem. VCS working together with IAS, produces CaaS – to eliminate layers of waste in time and cost from early planning to occupancy.
Indiana receiver Fernando Mendoza making a diving catch with the words Efficiency and Excellence in Execution

Featured Article

The Case for Construction as a System

One of history’s greatest sports stories shows how an inefficient, poorly executed system can be transformed rapidly into a highly efficient and operationally excellent one. It just takes leadership.

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the VISION AND ultimate end game

Building as a Total System

CaaS readily scales to the ultimate end – the Total Cost of Ownership. This breakthrough satisfies the original National BIM Standard vision that includes, “… a  resource for information about a facility forming a reliable basis for decisions during its life cycle; defined as existing from earliest conception to demolition.”

Our goal is to enable and equip visionary program managers, planners, architects, and engineers with a powerful 5 Stage, end-to-end, cradle-to-grave solution-as described in the upcoming article: Building as a Total System.

Planning and Budgeting

Apply impartial market data to rapidly and reliably plan, program, budget and optimize project scope and cost.

Value-Based Contracting

Align facility management, consulting, design, and construction compensation to reward value improvement and increase return-on-effort.

From Stage 2, proceed to Stage 3 or Stage 4

Design and Construction

Integrate, automate, and optimize design and construction support efforts via structured data standards and processes across all organizations.

Total Project Development

Incorporate all soft cost to the integrated automated system to optimize the total project (total first cost) development.

Total Cost of Ownership

Incorporate all facility life cycle aspects to optimize the total cost of ownership (TCO) expressed as Net Present Value.

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