Category: Future

Nov 27 2008

Construction, ICT, marketing and web 2.0

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Web 2.0
27 November 2008

“The day a computer can lay bricks, is the day I f*** off out of the industry!” The above words (or a rough approximation of them) were repeated at a meeting of construction marketing people (CIMCIG) I attended on Tuesday evening. The story-teller was agreeing with Construction News editor Nick Edwards that some construction people …

Amplified08, Be2camp, blogs, CIMCIG, CIMCIG conference, ConMarcoms 2.0, construction marketing, Construction News, e-marketing, Facebook, ICT, LinkedIn, Loughborough University, market research, Nick Edwards, PR, RSS, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, technophobia, Twitter, unconference, Web 2.0, wiki
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Nov 24 2008

AEC conferences, content and ‘unconferences’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, Telecoms, Web 2.0
24 November 2008

My friend Jodie Miners is now back in Australia after a whirlwind trip to Europe (and Dubai) that included co-organisation and participation in the London Be2camp 2008 event at the Building Centre on 10 October. She has been blogging about part of her trip – to the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona – and makes …

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Nov 23 2008

Design and decision tools

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Future
23 November 2008

The UK Modern Built Environment Knowledge Transfer Network is seeking the opinions of members on design and decision tools for new buildings. Its questionnaire will help shape the Technology Strategy Board’s forthcoming call as part of its Low Impact Buildings Innovation Platform; information will be used to provide an insight into industry priorities in this …

Knowledge Transfer Network, Low Impact Buildings Innovation Platform, Modern Built Environment, questionnaire, Technology Strategy Board

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Nov 21 2008

BIM: What does it do for You?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Future, People issues
21 November 2008

Yesterday I attended a meeting in London of the Building & Estates Forum of Constructing Excellence. One of the topics discussed was the rise of the design manager and how building information modelling (BIM) could bring a dramatic change in this type of role. I am sure some of these issues will also be explored …

BIM, building information modelling, Constructing Excellence, design manager, Salford University, SCRI Forum

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Nov 07 2008

Show Us A Better Way – finalists

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, People issues, Web 2.0
7 November 2008

I have blogged before about the Power of Information Task Force (a UK Cabinet Office initiative) and its Show Us A Better Way competition, which attracted 100s of entries. Well, The winners shortlist has been announced in the Guardian (see also the Free Our Data blog), and the ultimate winner will be announced on BBC …

Cabinet Office, Free Our Data, Guardian, iPM, Power of Information Task Force, Show Us a Better Way

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Nov 04 2008

Recession and the construction SaaS providers

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS
4 November 2008

The R-word has arrived. In his Brickonomics blog, my good friend Brian Green today talks, not for the first time, about “the recession in construction”, which he says “is looking increasingly desperate as the giant commercial sector appears to be heading for a nasty fall”. Earlier this year, like many industry people, I was hopeful …

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Oct 28 2008

BIM, the project information cloud and an AEC ‘Cluetrain’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Books, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Legal, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Sustainability, Web 2.0
28 October 2008

Sometimes one’s reading and writing can throw up some fortunate coincidences. Take this morning, for example. Via TenLinksDaily, I followed a link to an AECcafe.com article by Susan Smith: The Road to AEC Project Execution Success. Later, my feed-reader pointed me to a blog posting (and associated PowerPoint presentation) by Stress-Free’s David Harrison: Making digital …

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Oct 24 2008

Windows to go cloudy?

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
24 October 2008

According to an article by Richard Waters in the Financial Times (Microsoft looks to cloud to open new windows – registration may be required), Microsoft may finally be ready to take a big leap into the world of cloud computing. He says the wraps are set to be taken off at a conference that the …

Amazon, BBC, cloud computing, Financial Times, Google, IBM, Internet.com, Los Angeles, Microsoft, Phil Wainewright, Ray Ozzie, Richard Waters, Steve Ballmer, Windows Azure, Windows Cloud

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Oct 08 2008

Junk the myths

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Future, Internet, Web 2.0
8 October 2008

For the past week or more, I have been carrying around a newspaper cutting from the 29 September edition of The Guardian: a Media Guardian article by Professor Jeff Jarvis of the City University of New York (and the buzzmachine.com blog). I’ve finally got round to reading it properly and it’s fantastic stuff. In the …

Be2camp, bloggers, buzzmachine.com, City University of New York, Guardian, internet, Jeff Jarvis, journalists, myths, Web 2.0, Wikipedia

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Oct 06 2008

Will new Chief Construction Officer embrace ICT?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, People issues, Sustainability
6 October 2008

Following the publication in July of the Parliamentary Business & Enterprise Select Committee’s report Construction Matters, the UK government is now consulting industry on its proposals to appoint a Chief Construction Officer, requiring responses by the end of this month. According to the BERR news release (2 October), this person’s duties could include: Working with …