Thanks to a short link on Mel’s Elemental blog, I learned about a new(ish) blog run through the Contract Journal website. Brickonomics is written by a long-standing friend of mine, Brian Green – who has a mind full of useful information and statistics about the UK construction industry, and about the house-building sector in particular. …
Category: Blogs
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May 23 2008
Test Windows Live Writer
After noticing some issues with how my posts from an 18-month-old version of Live Writer to TypePad were being handled (titles not appearing, and selected categories being rendered as sequences of numbers), I am trying to narrow down the causes. I suspect it’s been caused by updates at TypePad (my Flock editor get similar results), …
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May 22 2008
3D anyone?
Interested in 3D? My friend Martin Brown (iSite) will be participating in 3DCamp, an event in Limerick this weekend: "a themed Barcamp which will focus on virtual worlds (Second Life, the Metaverse), mirror worlds (Google Earth and Virtual Earth), mapping mashups, GPS, Location based Services (LBSs), haptics (eg. Wiimote hacks), 3D modelling (Blender, Sketchup) and …
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May 19 2008
Testing Flock blog tool
For some months, I have been a happy user of Microsoft’s Live Writer as an offline blogging tool and have been using the Flock browser. Now – and partly because fellow blogger Phil Clark at ZeroChampion has become a Flock user – I have started investigating how well Flock’s built-in editing tool works with my …
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May 16 2008
Tender points
Reading the latest construction weeklies, Construction News has a column (not yet online) from Neil Jarrett of the Collaborative Working Centre explaining how collaborative working will address the problem of bid-rigging, advocating open book cost management (to give greater visibility of real costs and make it difficult for contractors to benefit from collusion) and frameworks (to …
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May 13 2008
Software incompatability sours 2012 effort
The office copy of Contract Journal finally arrived today and ‘The Foreman’ writes about British professionals at Mace and Laing O’Rourke involved with the 2012 Olympics developments getting disgruntled with the money being spent on their American colleagues. He then adds: Tempers have also flared about computer systems. My man said: “They are trying to …
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May 12 2008
Projectcentre.net
Earlier this year, I started looking in a little more detail at the Australian construction collaboration technology market. Aconex, being active in the UK, obviously feature regularly in my thoughts (I believe their shareholder dispute may finally yield a judgement in the next month or so); I have written about Incite (here and here); and I linked to …
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May 09 2008
Twitter on
The inside back page of this week’s Building magazine has ZeroChampion Phil Clark writing about Twitter. He’s spurred me into action, so – joining some of the other regular Building bloggers – I’ve now started ‘tweeting’ too (and have downloaded TwitToday to allow me to ‘tweet’ from my Windows Mobile smartphone while I’m out and about). (Twitter was …
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May 07 2008
Think 08
Not exactly heaving with visitors but moderately well attended and the exhibition has some interesting stands. So far I have spoken to Consense (online consultation), UrbanBuzz, the European Construction Institute (Clive Winkler is an old friend), TPS (former colleagues), Integrated Environmental Solutions Ltd (one of the few IT firms represented), WRAP, Jon De Souza of …
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