Our profession along with the rest of the building industry is currently facing some notable changes. The new 2009 International Building Code has been adopted in most states. By July next year, it will become effective in all  Southern Nevada jurisdictions. More requests for qualifications and proposals require or favor experience with Building Information Modeling, (BIM). Clients expect the design team to use BIM as the basis for creating construction documents. Sustainability has been with us for some time now and will become more widely used and continues to demand better understanding. Can we afford to ignore these changes and hope they will go away?
 
I don't think so! Yes change is hard and expensive because it requires learning new procedures, takes time away from projects, and requires retooling and new capital spending. However, if done properly and quickly, these changes will provide better efficiency, accuracy and may open new lines of service. Change is good, especially when it improves the practice and increases the value engineers, architects and builders can contribute toward design and construction.

We strive every day to learn new ways and means, and to adopt the latest technologies to improve our business process that will ultimately save our clients, and ourselves, time and money.