Tag: Accelerating Change

Nov 30 2009

An open letter to the new Chief Construction Adviser

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, People issues, SaaS, Web 2.0
30 November 2009

[This is a re-post of an article from my pwcom blog, published 27 November 2009. Update (04 December): I added a post-script to the original post – read the response received back from Paul Morrell.] First mooted in July 2008, the appointment of the UK government’s first Chief Construction Advisor was finally announced this week. …

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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 …