Information sharing in design and construction is a complex process. Architects and project teams rely on timely and accurate distribution of files and data, yet…

In the AEC industry, effective communication and collaboration are paramount. As we’ve discussed previously, email can’t meet modern demands. To maintain a leadership role in…

Continuing our exploration of transformative communication strategies in the AEC industry, highlighted in our previous posts “Why Email is Failing Your Projects” and “Where Real…

Email was once a groundbreaking communication tool for AEC. However, as projects become more complex and teams more diverse, the limitations of email have become…

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Service Organization Controls (SOC) reports give assurance over control environments as they relate to the retrieval, storage,…

Email has long been the go-to method for communication and data sharing in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. Architects were early adopters of…

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…

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,…

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…

By Zach Gentry, Concert CEO In 2022, AIA Contract Documents (ACD) released new contract templates that enable architects to share their digital design information. This…

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…

by Zach Gentry – Concert CEO With market conditions challenged by higher interest rates, ongoing supply chain issues, and long-term labor shortages, design and construction…

By Zach Gentry –  Concert CEO The September 2023 AIA/Deltek Architectural Billing Index (ABI) provides enlightening insights into the present state of technology and AI…

Design and construction processes are intricate journeys that entail thousands of decisions throughout all stages. In this journey, seeking input and feedback is paramount to…

By Zach Gentry – Concert CEO In recent blogs, we shared two of the critical promises that Concert makes for your design and construction data….

by Tim Dufault – Concert CRO Architects inhabit a mismatched place in popular culture; they are either portrayed as creative geniuses and heroic figures or…

by Zachary Gentry – Concert CEO Note: In our last blog of this series, we discussed how CONCERT enables users to confidently share their design…

by Concert Today, Concert CRO, Tim Dufault will be participating in a session titled, “Collision of Blockchain and Construction,” at the American Bar Association FORUM…

by Zach Gentry – Concert CEO Collaboration within design and construction teams could be infinitely better, and the players have been insulated for so long…

by Tim Dufault – Concert CRO On March 29, 2023, The Future of Life Institute (https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/) issued an open letter to halt the development of…

by Tim Dufault – Concert CRO Reliance and reliability are terms often used interchangeably but have different meanings, especially in the design and construction ecosystem….

by Tim Dufault – Concert CRO The economic model of professional services limits the capacity of the architectural industry to innovate. Changing the professional services…

by Tim Dufault – Concert CRO There is a lot of debate in the industry about the definition of BIM. Some say that BIM is…

by ConcertVDC Concert strives to become the ultimate platform in data coordination for the design and construction industry.  To achieve this, we are providing a…

by Zach Gentry – Concert CEO Digital architecture has come a long way in recent years. There are many new and exciting ways to translate…

by Tim Dufault – Concert CRO The world is abuzz with discussions about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its implications for academia, creativity, and truth in…

by Adam Wilbrecht – Concert CPO Digitalization has been transforming industries worldwide, but the architecture and construction industry has lagged behind. Despite the numerous benefits…

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…

by Zach Gentry – Concert CEO We are in the opening act of a new asset class built, maintained, and operated entirely within a computer….

What’s New Concert Offers MFA Signature with Permanent Record Today, Concert launched multi-factor authentication (MFA) on our platform for all digital signatures. We made this…

by Zach Gentry – Concert  CEO Most people by now have some familiarity with FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange that filed for bankruptcy on November 11…

by Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO   Time is money     –     Do more with less Why do these simple phrases so aptly…

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…

Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO Everyone is looking for the silver bullet – that one thing that solves all the world’s problems. The latest…

Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO At Concert, we are all in on digital project delivery, it is the future of design and construction. However,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. …

by Concert VDC Robotics, pre-fabrication, supply chain logistics, and building performance modeling are reshaping design and construction. They all require data and the AIA 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…

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.  Until…

Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO On July 20th, AIA Contract Documents released the 2022 versions of the E and G series of contract exhibits….

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…

Tim Dufault, FAIA –  Concert CRO The American Institute of Architects (AIA) gathered in Chicago in late June for their first in-person Conference on Architecture…

Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO I was in a conversation about transforming design and construction through digital delivery the other day and one of…

Tim Dufault, FAIA  –  Concert CRO The latest episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver focused its main topic on the issue of tech…

Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO   Understanding the impact that building design and construction decisions have on global climate change is clearly shown in…

Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO The most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provided a small measure of hope that catastrophic climate change…

A CONVERSATION WITH PRESIDENT SANDY GOODMAN   WHO IS CRGA DESIGN?  CRGA Design is a comprehensive architecture, interior design, and planning firm dedicated to healthcare…

“You and me, we come from different worlds.” – Only Wanna Be with You, Hootie & the Blowfish In the crypto world right now, there…

Tim Dufault, FAIA – Concert CRO In my post last week, I shared a personal reflection of how design and construction have evolved in my…

“King Jeremy, the wicked, ruled his world today.” – Jeremy, Pearl Jam Monday was a day which exposed the failure of crypto and its approach…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

By Tim Dufault, FAIA Concert CRO It seems like such a simple thing – communicate what we need, the value we deliver, and what we…

By Zach Gentry Concert CEO Virtual design & construction is centered on the idea that the physical world can be synthesized, evaluated, and simulated on…

 “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…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

“Have you ever seen the rain?” – Creedence Clearwater Revival 100 million of us watched the Los Angeles Rams defeat the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday,…

By Tim Dufault FAIA CONCERT CRO Super Bowl Weekend is over, and the reviews are in – SoFi stadium was a hit. Across the board,…

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…

“I get knocked down, but I get up again You are never gonna keep me down.” – Tubthumping, Chumbawumba One of my friends said that…

“We can drive around this town.  And let the cops chase us around.” – Hey Jealousy, The Gin Blossoms One of the hottest areas and…

One of the first lessons a young designer learns when they move into the professional services world is – Time is Money. There are exceptionally…

“The past is gone, but something might be found to take its place.”  – Hey Jealousy, The Gin Blossoms    I was talking with a…

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…

“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:…

“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…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

Happy New Year to all! Every year moves faster and gets shorter, but that is just the reality of getting older – a year becomes…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Concert is a Web3 app When we started building Concert, Web3 did not yet exist — at least not the term.  However, we recognized the…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The Internet of Things for Architects Buildings are reaching a new age when it comes to design, construction, and operation.   We are now interested…

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…

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.”   …

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…

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…

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…

One term that comes up a lot in the crypto world is layer one.  People often ask us here at Concert – what is your…

Creating a Shared Ecosystem in Design and Construction (Part One) Design and construction were historically linked – a team led by the architect to realize…

Proof of Storage Consensus   In my last blog post – discussed many different types of consensus algorithms, including one called proof of storage, which…

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…

An AEC Data Engine to Drive New Value Welcome to the fourth industrial revolution.   In case you blinked and missed it, the third industrial…

Let’s get consensus – Part II   In the last article, we touched on a proof of work consensus algorithm, as used for bitcoin. Proof…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Blockchain background: Part 1   Blockchain technologies have boomed in the past twelve years since Satoshi Nakomoto released his seminal paper on Bitcoin in January…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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….

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

‍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…