Tag: Construction Matters

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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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 …

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Jul 25 2008

Construction Matters (but ICT doesn’t)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, People issues, Sustainability
25 July 2008

Courtesy of the latest Constructing Excellence members newsletter, I got a link to the latest report, Construction Matters (Vol I, PDF), from the House of Commons Business and Enterprise Committee. I wanted to see if this report was any better than the recent Strategy for Sustainable Construction (see post) in regards to recommending better use …