Tag: Construction Commitments

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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Jan 12 2009

Five 2009 resolutions

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Books, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Sustainability, Vendors, Web 2.0
12 January 2009

Reading PR Week magazine last week, I enjoyed a page of the “top five New Year’s resolutions made by the UK’s comms professionals”. Briefly, these were: Survive the credit crunch Embrace the digital age Win an industry award Find a work/life balance Invest more in CSR All pretty laudible, but I think the same five …

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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 …