Category: People issues

Apr 09 2009

BIM boom?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, People issues
9 April 2009

The BIM boom, an article in the US-oriented Concrete Construction Online, gives a good overview of building information modelling (BIM) in the AEC industry, with author Andy O’Nan suggesting everyone needs to prepare for the eminent technological revolution facing the construction industry. However, he stresses there are some major hurdles to overcome, particularly relating to …

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Apr 03 2009

BIM and social media

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Future, People issues, Sustainability, Web 2.0
3 April 2009

Last month, Birmingham-based architect Rob Annable of Axis Design spoke at Ecobuild on BIM and social media (see post). The Building Sustainable Design blog has just published a guest post by Rob in which he elaborates on that presentation – it’s well worth reading. (Thanks, Rob for the Be2camp mention!)

Axis Design, Be2camp, BIM, blog, Building Sustainable Design, EcoBuild, Rob Annable, Social Media

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Mar 26 2009

2D to 3D: still a work in progress

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Future, People issues
26 March 2009

Estimates regarding the adoption of building information modelling (BIM) vary depending on who you talk to, where they are based, and what kind of role they have. About 18 months ago, for instance, an American survey estimated that about 35% of building owners had tried BIM on one or more projects (see my post), while …

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Mar 11 2009

The power of collaboration in product development

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, People issues, ROI/benefits
11 March 2009

A lot of my time is focused on how teams collaborate during design and construction of new buildings and other assets, and it is easy to forget that collaboration should extend throughout the supply chain, including the manufacturers of many of the components that are used in our projects. On his PLM and Profitability blog …

Aberdeen Group, BERR, BIM, blog, building information modelling, collaboration technolog, construction collaboration, contracts, design data, education, Futurefocus, ICT, ICT and Automation, insurance, intellectual property, Jim Brown, liability, manufacturers, Manufacturing Business Technology, PLM and Profitability, procurement routes, risk, Scandinavia, supply chain, UK, USA, visualization

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Mar 06 2009

A new blog, a new direction

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Web 2.0
6 March 2009

Sharp-eyed visitors to this blog may have noticed a new RSS feed in the side-bar – from pwcom. This is my new blog focused on PR, marketing and Web 2.0, with a strong bias towards how these are used in the architecture, engineering, construction and property sectors. I have discussed Web 2.0 a lot in …

architecture, Be2camp, BIM, BIW, blog, building information modelling, Construction, construction collaboration, contract change management, Document management systems, Engineering, extranets, marketing, Ning, PR, project financial control, property, pwcom, recession, RSS, Social Media, Twitter, Web 2.0, wikis

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Mar 05 2009

Information modelling for greener buildings

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Future, People issues, Sustainability, Web 2.0
5 March 2009

Information modelling for greener buildings was the title of an excellent seminar at Ecobuild in London yesterday afternoon on building information modelling (BIM). Well chaired and introduced by Richard Saxon (ex-BDP), the session also featured presentations from: James Warne (environmental engineering director, BDP) on BIM and sustainability Nick Nisbet (AEC3) on BuildingSMART, IFCs and SMARTcodes …

Adrian Dobson, AEC3, Axis Design Architects, BDP, Be2camp, BIM, blogging, building information modelling, BuildingSMART, Claire Sinclair, EcoBuild, GPS, IFCs, James Warne, London, Moblogs, Nick Nisbet, OpenStreetMap, Pachube, phonecams, recession, RIBA, RIBA knowledge communities, Richard Saxon, Rob Annable, RSS, Slider Studio, SMARTcodes, Social Media, sustainability, Twitter, user-generated content, YouCanPlan
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Mar 03 2009

BIMserver.org: right technology, right time?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Legal, People issues, SaaS
3 March 2009

David Harrison’s latest StressFree blog posting talks about BIMserver and the potential of server-side BIM. It is a fascinating post, describing how the University of Eindhoven-based BIMserver.org project combines building information modelling (BIM) software and open source server technologies, rather than being reliant upon workstation-based CAD software. And this is no blue-sky project – it …

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Feb 18 2009

BIM: All change, please

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, People issues
18 February 2009

In presentations and lectures about construction collaboration technologies, I identify building information modelling (BIM) as one of the key forces for change in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry in the next five years. However, many UK professionals don’t seem to grasp just profound a communication change will be brought about by the introduction …

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Feb 03 2009

Let’s make construction more ‘social’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Web 2.0
3 February 2009

[This is a re-post of a blog article I wrote for Building Sustainable Design, which launched this week.] I have spent more than half my career in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) and property industry looking at issues relating to collaboration, and since 2000 have been focused on how to use internet-based technologies to …

AEC, age, architecture, Be2camp, blog, Building Centre, Building Sustainable Design, climate change, collaboration, conservatism, Constructing Excellence, Construction, design, economic, Engineering, environmental, extranets, FM, iGoogle, Institution of Civil Engineers, internet, Latham Report, London, mobile devices, Ning, Pam Broviak, PCs, people, people and processes, Planet, planning, profit, RIBA, RSS, Second Life, social, Social Media, social networking, Strategic Forum for Construction, sustainable built environment, tagging, technology, three Ps, Twitter, Web 2.0, wikis

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Feb 02 2009

Tackling ‘the interweb thingy’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Internet, Marketing, People issues, Web 2.0
2 February 2009

Over the weekend, I enjoyed reading a BBC Business article by Tim Weber from last week’s economic summit in Davos. In How companies tackle the interweb thingy, he points out that while every company worth its salt has a website, many “are still struggling to move beyond having a colourful website towards really using the …