Since the beginning of recorded history, the main principles of the building process haven't changed very much. From Imhotep in Ancient Egypt to the present day, typically, the owner of a piece of land hires an architect to design a project; the architect then conveys a vision through diagrams and instructions to a team of builders who physically build that vision from those instructions. 

The same approach Imhotep utilized in creating a set of instructions for a builder remains in use with limited variation. However, in today's fast-past, hi-tech, and vastly more complicated world, a world likely much harder than what Imhotep dealt with, it feels like the industry still isn't taking advantage of newer technology, newer processes, and more modern ways of rethinking an ancient process. Sure, we have computers now, but it still feels like the industry's processes are primitive and continue to make the same costly mistakes over and over again without correction.    

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