Technology in the Sky
Imagine yourself in various scenarios: at your favorite lake, watching a football game, or just taking a pleasant stroll. Or you're on the battlefield, urgently needing to locate the enemy.
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A Changing Landscape in Construction and Design Through the Use of Technology
The state of construction today is an overly complex, phased process, organized over time into varying methods of project delivery to meet unique client expectations and programmatic needs. For the client, the goal of design may simply be to finish their project as quickly as possible, but the truth is much less straightforward.
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Sustainable Architecture
Imagine a home, office building, store, or restaurant you can design, build, and occupy that limits man’s negative impact on the environment -- sustainable architecture.
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Building Effective Teams & Resource Scaling in Engineering: Vertical vs Horizontal
Building any successful team in engineering is not an easy task. Scaling your resources according to the needs of a project or organization becomes critical to achieving high performance in the long term in any group whether large or small.
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Supply Chain Disruptions and Impact on Outsourced Engineering Services
As the age-old cliché goes, change is the only constant in the world. Everything evolves or adapts eventually, and perhaps, it is going to be the same with the Global Supply Chain.
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Green Building and Sustainability in the AEC Industry
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "Green building is the practice of creating structures and using processes that are environmentally responsible and resource-efficient throughout a building’s life-cycle from siting to design, construction, operation, maintenance, renovation and deconstruction."
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Energy Modeling
Energy modeling or energy system modeling is the process of building computer models of energy systems to analyze them. Such models often employ scenario analysis to investigate different assumptions about the technical and economic conditions at play.
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New Technology in Building Design
The options today in building design technologies for architects and engineers are unlimited. From exterior to interior, the choices in building security, environmental monitoring, personal protection, and communication systems are vast.
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Building Design with a virus in mind - Health-focused design responses to a changing world
Looking back at history and taking into consideration all other unexpected outbreaks and pandemics, we begin to realize the impact on our lives, economy, and the population as a whole.
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BIM Implementation & Quality Assurance Benefits
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the most effective, widely used, and preferred design tool in the AEC world currently. This digital software platform enables architects and engineers to create complete designs filled with building data that can be used throughout the design and construction process.
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A Bow Tie Earns Respect at the Watercooler
News traveled fast at this western United States architectural firm. As the vendor, we learned how dissatisfaction at the project level radiates outward faster than upward.
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Recognizing The Form & Function of Residential Architecture
Vee Technologies is helping Architects solve residential design challenges by collaboration of full designs. The paper discusses a sample of our residential design work.
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Understanding the Beauty and Complexity of Structural Design
Structural engineering has enjoyed a brilliant and iconic past. Signature bridges, high-rise buildings, and long-span roofs over sports facilities stand as testaments to the work of structural engineers.
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AEC Studio Inequality Solutions
Assigning personnel to a studio can be a hit or miss affair. Despite valuable input from Human Resources and lengthy interviews by the head of AEC studios, wrongful placements can still be made.
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Globalization of Business
How do businesses meet the challenges of growth, competition, and ever-changing market conditions? The Vee Technologies solution is, quite simply, our global business model. Our model provides clients with well-established processes, industry-leading quality, improved capabilities, reduced costs, shorter workflow cycle times, governance, and a covenant relationship.
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Career Aspirations versus Studio Requirements
Assigning personnel to a studio can be a hit or miss affair. Despite valuable input from Human Resources and lengthy interviews by the head of AEC studios, wrongful placements can still be made.
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AEC Staffing Refinements Deliver "More for More"
Unlike tactical purchasing, strategic selling stands on a “More for More” platform; it means we charge higher fees for a better service relative to our competitors, many of which pitch low-cost drafting in lieu of process excellence. Tactical purchasing doesn't focus on the entire company's needs, and it doesn't aim to truly understand how a vendor's capabilities could support the organization's larger needs.
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Rebuilding the Building Industry
One of the hardest hit industries in the 2008 recession was architecture and construction. With the economic downturn, this industry slowed dramatically, and the slump lasted for years. During this time, many architects left the profession, as did enrolled and recently graduated students.
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Studio Design
The goal of many successful businesses is the physical creation and collection of desired skills, in the form of a studio design, along with producing an output that provides a high level of value to the business. The studio design is fine art to businesses looking to acquire specific skills, reduce costs, and improve deliveries.
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Ramp to Revenue
One of the hardest hit industries in the 2008 recession was architecture and construction. With the economic downturn, this industry slowed dramatically, and the slump lasted for years. During this time, many architects left the profession, as did enrolled and recently graduated students.
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