Blinkk model5/6/2023 ![]() ![]() We can approach a company and say, 'Hey, have you thought about building a different way in 40 percent less time?' Not 5 percent, which is just software doing the same old thing but faster or digitizing blueprints. What makes the PT Blink model unique?įirst, our technology is so flexible that we can actually come in after design has already been done and offer a faster way to build. It's a building in a box, with all the data facilities managers need on every nut and bolt, and all the warranties. It's not quite where we are yet, but we are making moves to achieve an end-to-end platform of data capture for our customers, which can be transferred through design to facilities management, property management and asset management. We're also focused on having a hardware model matching and replicating into a software model, right through the entire process. ![]() They can do twice as many jobs in a year - with less risk and better margins. ![]() But, we've found that the forward-thinking GC's, the ones less steeped in tradition, are capitalizing on the time savings PT Blink offers too. Historically, general contractors haven't thought much about time. A project that was going to take two years can be reduced to one year and the owner starts collecting ROI on that investment earlier. If you think of the time value of money, this is incredibly lucrative for owners. We give time back to owners - a significant amount of time - 30 to 40 percent. The big benefit of what we do is saving time. What can PT Blink offer the different stakeholders in a building project? What PT Blink is doing is providing a whole different kind of tool that lets owners and builders do it all at once while keeping the integrity of the design as it passes from stakeholder to stakeholder. They don't actually have the end-to-end platform. What we are doing is providing a technology platform and design-manufacture-integrate methods that substantially reduce project time and cost.Ī lot of people offer point solutions, focusing on one little thing in design or shipping or logistics. The industry is already moving to prefabrication, modular, industrialized construction. Our technology is pretty revolutionary but on a bigger scale we're not blazing completely new ground here. We've actually patented a process around this - building a building without a core. We're really a "Build long-span structures efficiently and differently than you normally would" kind of company. So, is PT Blink a tech company or a construction company? In this Q&A, we speak with Murray about what makes PT Blink special, and how their approaches to structural building, manufacturing, and sales pitches help them save their clients up to 40 percent in project delivery schedules. This challenge sparked Murray and his team to come up with their own unique approach to design, manufacturing, and integration in the industrialized construction space. How could construction companies in Australia do things as well as China, and be remain competitive in terms of pricing? Three or four years ago, Murray Ellen, founder of PT Blink and renowned structural engineer with 30+ years of experience innovating in steel, had a couple of steel manufacturers ask him if construction could bring jobs and business back to Australia. ![]() And Murray Ellen thinks he might have just solved it. "How can we compete with China?" Its the kind of easy-solution-defying question that's been inspiring insomnia in construction CEOs for years. ![]()
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