Category: Timeline Stories

Brave Spaces – Building a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive future for the design & construction industry To remain relevant, the A/E/C and design professions must keep pace with the growing diversity of society, clients/owners, and building users. As an industry, we have much opportunity for improvement. Toward that end, COGENCE Alliance – Central Ohio …

Cogence Alliance hosted an on-line, four-day program, “Momentum,” Monday, February 8, 2021 through Thursday, February 11, 2021. Each session took place virtually and lasted approximately 90 minutes. Daily Event Schedule/Session Information CogenceAlliance-Momentum2021 (PDF) The program was FREE for Cogence Partners and Emerging Leaders.  Non-Cogence members costs was $99.

This one-hour webinar, titled, “From Hands-On to On-line,” will be a facilitated discussion with design construction industry executives to share emerging best practices and innovative ways in team selection and design & construction techniques—along with a perspective on the new liabilities it all may bring. Cogence Program 2020.05.13 (PDF)  

In our last two Roundtable discussions we identified the Products of project success, defined a Successful Project, and identified practices we put in place to ensure Project Success. This time our Cogence partners presented tools and resources that they have been developing that can be utilized in out upcoming projects. Responsibility Matrix, Owner Education Tools, …

We celebrated the start of our 5th year! Driving the industry together, our focus is to Inspire.Educate.Unite. Improve project outcomes. Right size risk. Optimize the whole. Creating connections to the future. We welcomed partners, new and existing and worked together to shape future focus of Cogence. We looked back on the impact connections have made …

Change our Industry – As change agents in COGENCE Companies, we are trying to drive lasting change in our industry. In this program we defined the standard of Waste Elimination we should all strive to follow. Determine how to design changes into our companies operating philosophy – on specific Waste topics we have uncovered in …

After identifying the Products of project success and defining a Successful Project, we continue our discussion on Project Success. What Practices are put in place to ensure Project Success? What Impediments to success do we allow to exist on our projects? Are these Practices and Impediments measurable? Central OH Cogence_191120_Meeting 5 Presentation Final with Resource …

Now that we have finalized our investigation of risks throughout the construction process, we began a new discussion topic. What makes a project successful? Based on your recent projects, what are the common and consistent traits/characteristics that have led to the successes you’ve experienced? Central OH Cogence_190917_Meeting 4 Presentation Final (PDF)    

Research tells us that incorporating technology can increase productivity by 14%-16%. How? Creating a more efficient workflow, empowering teams to be transparent with opportunities and risks results in cost savings for all. Full integration is required to create the return and capitalize on the upfront investment. Learn how Cogence partners have been experiencing similar results. …

We finalized our chapter’s discussion on risk by sharing thoughts and ideas at Cross-Functional tables, where we discussed how our actions affect the risk of our partners on a construction project and how their actions affect our own risks. We identified what habits we can each develop to mitigate the risk to our partners and …