Announcement: AECForensics.com is the source for Architectural, Engineering and Construction News

Below is a quote from the announcement at AECForensics.com:

After a lot of work behind the scenes, I’m proud to announce that AEC Forensics is now fully operational.

I have scoured the internet and continue to do so daily, selecting and curating the content that appears here. Since no other website has risen to the challenge of compiling news about our industry (construction defect litigation, construction law, bad faith, green forensics, etc.), I have thrown my hat in the ring. Those of you that know me personally are aware that I am a full time employee and shareholder of KPA Associates, Inc., a San Diego-based architectural firm that provides expert witness testimony in construction defect matters, in addition to ADA compliance and residential/commercial/institutional design services. In other words, this website is an avocation for me and something I pursue solely because of my passion for this industry.

Admittedly not everything you find on this site is strictly related to construction defect litigation. (Please visit the About page for a more thorough explanation.)

Let me explain a little bit more about why I’m doing this and how.

First, this is truly a labor of love. I have been working in the AEC forensics field for over a decade, yet nobody has a decent run-down of relevant information about the industry. We in this industry are by nature, obsessed with information, but it almost seems as if there is an elitist approach to knowledge management in the construction defect realm. Plus a lot of people are understandably reluctant to openly publish their opinion for free when the person is billing north of $150 per hour for their opinion. Me? I’m no expert. I just work for one.

Next, I want to discuss a little bit about how I am doing this. Most importantly, if it were not for WordPress (specifically version 3.0), none of this would be feasible within the limited amount of time I have. I have spent years developing a workflow that works for me with regard to reviewing, analyzing, categorizing, publishing and distributing information from online sources. At the heart of it all is Google Reader. Using the tagging functions, I’m able to quickly review, annotate and categorize articles from thousands of sources. The tagged items are then fed through various plugins as drafts in WordPress. I manually edit each post one at a time before publishing. From there, Hootsuite and some other tools distribute the content through various channels. What is important is that I have culled thousands of posts daily to find the truly noteworthy articles (in my opinion) that pertain to the topics I’m interested in. In a way, I’m trying to keep true to the original notions of blogging – as in weblog, or a log chronicling web-based publications of interest.

That’s all I’ve got for now. Time for dinner and some more time with the family…

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