Tag: climate change

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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Sep 19 2008

Relevance – not sheep!

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Books, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, People issues, ROI/benefits, Web 2.0
19 September 2008

Ever since I first got interested in what we now understand loosely as Web 2.0, I have been looking for ways to make it relevant to my day-to-day job. For example, I started blogging three years ago to create an online presence to expand on the content of my book (flyer); at BIW, I have …

AEC, architecture, Be2camp, blogging, climate change, collaboration, collaborative working, discussion forums, engineering and construction, Facebook, Google Maps, LinkedIn, Martin Brown, networking, RSS, Second Life, Throwing Sheep, Tim O'Reilly, timelines, Twitter, Web 2.0, wikis
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Jun 25 2008

BuildingSMART Conference, RIBA, London

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet
25 June 2008

0940am BST: This is the first of (hopefully) several updates from the BuildingSMART one-day conference at the RIBA in London (the main auditorium has wi-fi (hurray!), but few power connections (boo!), but by topping up the battery from time to time, I hope to get by). Only about 40 delegates in the room as the …