Mediocre

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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 9:00AM

If you got a performance review at work, you’d hate for your manager to write “mediocre” anywhere on the report. It’s almost worse than writing “poor.” Mediocre movies never get a cult following…they’re just mediocre. Well we have a mediocre building stock in the US. It’s not a poor building stock…Port-au-Prince had a poor building stock. But if no one wants to be mediocre…how come mediocrity reigns when you look at the built environment of the US?

We didn’t get to the building stock we have in America today because the very best architects, the very best contractors and the very best materials were used on every single project every single time. We got here because pretty good architects and pretty good contractors working with pretty good budgets were asked to create projects close to budget and close to on time.

The design/build industry’s response to this problem has been to call on the best architects, engineers and contractors to build brand new buildings that are in many ways better than their predecessors. That’s great-it proves our current mediocrity. The problem is that those new buildings…those better buildings represent 1% of our building stock. They don’t solve the problem-they provide an example. It’s time for scalable best practices to take hold in the industry. It’s time to raise the bar on what we consider “mediocre.”

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oooh that thought makes me shudder a little...;)

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I guess that to get the loans from creditors you must present a great motivation. Nevertheless, one time I have received a credit loan, because I was willing to buy a building.

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