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Behavioral Economics / Behavioral psychology / Building construction / Cognitive science / Complex Systems / COVID-19 / Data science / Decision Analysis / Decision intelligence / Government / Introduction / Risk Analysis / Simulation / Wicked Problems January 20, 2021
READ MORERight now, getting vaccines “into arms” is the world’s greatest pandemic focus. But everything could change. Says Andy Slavitt, “The headlines we see today…[describe a] massive over-demand and under-supply [of the COVID19 vaccine]…it could easily flip…we could have a massive oversupply, and we have more vaccines than people could possibly need, and now we’re trying […]
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Building construction / Building design / Climate Change / COVID-19 / Pandemic Safe Buildings December 31, 2020
READ MOREI have explained that we can do much better than one-size-fits-all thinking as we work to make buildings more safe from climate change, and my previous post introduced a first concept to get past this limitation, which is to move beyond averages. This post dives deeper, into non-linear relationships and critical thresholds. These two effects […]
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Building construction / Causal modeling / Climate Change / Complex Systems / Facilities Management / Government / Pandemic Safe Buildings / Unintended consequences December 25, 2020
READ MOREIn my previous post, I explained how we can move from “one size fits all” thinking to solutions that help us design buildings, where we spend 90% of our time, to keep us safer and healthier in a world that, due to increasing pandemics and climate change, is unlike any we’ve experienced before. Here, I’ll […]
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Building construction / Building design / Climate Change / COVID-19 / Facilities Management / Pandemic Safe Buildings / Wicked Problems December 25, 2020
READ MOREThe increasing frequency and severity of pandemic and climate events represent new challenges to keeping buildings, particularly older buildings, safe for their inhabitants and visitors. The good news is that modern data-centric technology can help us to cost-effectively make a big difference, if we move beyond one-size-fits-all understanding of buildings, as we design, build, and […]
