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The Commercial Real Estate Revolution: Nine Transforming Keys to Lowering Costs, Cutting Waste, and Driving Change in a Broken Industry
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, July 2009, Pages: 352
As it currently operates, the commercial real estate construction industry is a disaster full of built-in waste. Seventy-percent of all projects end over budget and late. The buildingSMART Alliance estimates that up to fifty-percent of the process is consumed in waste. Almost every project includes massive hidden taxes in the form of delays, cost overruns, poor quality, and work that has to be redone. Building new structures is a fragmented, adversarial process that commonly results in dissatisfied customers and frequently ends in disappointment, bitterness, and even litigation.
The industry must change—for its own good and that of its customers. But while the industry has tried to reform itself, it can’t do it alone. Real change can only come from business owners and executives who refuse to continue paying for a dysfunctional system and demand a new way of doing business.
The Commercial Real Estate Revolution is a bold manifesto for change from the Mindshift consortium—a group of top commercial real estate industry leaders who are fed up with a system that simply doesn’t work. The book explains how business leaders can implement nine principles for any project that will dramatically cut costs, end delays, create better buildings, and force the industry into real reform.
The Commercial Real Estate Revolution offers a radically new way of doing business—a beginning-to-end, trust-based methodology that transforms the building process from top to bottom. Based on unifying principles and a common framework that meets the needs of all stakeholders, this new system can reform and remake commercial construction into an industry we’re proud to be a part of.
If you’re one of the millions of hardcore cynics who work in commercial construction, you probably think this sounds like pie in the sky. But this is no magic bullet; it’s a call for real reform. If you’re an industry professional who’s sick of letting down clients or an owner who’s sick of cost overruns and endless delays, The Commercial Real Estate Revolution offers a blueprint for fixing a broken industry.
Commercial real estate-the way it is currently done-is a money pit. Every business, organization, or owner that builds a commercial building pays a hidden tax made up of delays, cost overruns, poor quality, rework-and not building what was really needed. Why? Because our current system of deciding, designing, and delivering these buildings is fundamentally broken. 'Business as usual' in the commercial building industry is a fragmented, adversarial process that regularly results in over-budget, over-schedule projects and poor quality buildings.
All too often, it ends in litigation and bitterness. The building industry has tried to reform itself unsuccessfully, but the change can only come from business executives, and owners who insist on a new paradigm for the industry, and refuse to continue paying for the current dysfunctional system. The Commercial Real Estate Revolution is a bold manifesto and roadmap by the Mindshift consortium, nineteen top commercial real estate industry leaders fed up with a system that makes good people do bad things.' The book explains how business leaders and owners can implement 9 principles for new buildings that will dramatically cut costs, end delays, create better commercial buildings, and reform the industry
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