The BuildLondonLive event I mentioned last week is taking shape. I’ve just had an email from Nick Nisbet saying this latest BIMStorm project’s website now features “a great movie” and some information about the target site (judging from the images, it looks like it’s a riverside site between Greenwich Peninsula and the Thames Barrier – …
Category: Sustainability
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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 15 2008
Downsizing at Constructing Excellence?
I have just received a members e-bulletin from UK construction membership organisation Constructing Excellence that has set alarm bells ringing. Headed “Constructing Excellence announces restructuring“, it says: Constructing Excellence has announced an organisational restructure to enable a sharper focus on its core business of delivering value to its membership. Over the last two years, Constructing …
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May 15 2008
BuildingSMART 2008 conference programme revealed
The programme for the 2008 London international BuildingSMART conference has been published. The one-day event – enticingly (ha, ha!) entitled “The STAND-INN Route to Sustainability and Value for Money in Construction and FM using BIM/IFCs” – is to be held again at the RIBA in London, on Wednesday 25 June. The day includes: sessions on …
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May 15 2008
ICT is key to cutting carbon emissions, says EU
Thanks to a post by ZDNet’s Andrew Donoghue, I see that the European Union is to promote the use of ICT to improve energy efficiency throughout the economy, starting with buildings, lighting and the power grid. An EU press release dated 13 May 2008 says: “… the most advanced computer servers consume the same amount of …
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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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May 07 2008
Breeding toxins from dead PCs
I am off later this afternoon to Think 08 sustainability event at the ExCel in east London (which I can just see through the haze across the River from where I live in south-east London) – where (time-permitting) I also hope to meet up with two or three fellow bloggers (see iSite post). While on …
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Apr 08 2008
SaaS-based BIM
I have talked about web-based collaborative BIM technologies a few times over the past year or so (see Asite BIM last year and SaaS and construction collaboration in 2008, for example), and just had to post a link to an interesting article by Kenneth Wong in the latest Cadalyst. The summer of BIM describes a collaborative effort involving “a …
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Apr 07 2008
Information meltdown
There’s been lots of talk about the credit crunch – now, techies are talking about the ‘broadband crunch’, apparently. Yesterday’s Observer newspaper had a feature, Video boom threatens to gridlock the internet, which said that “the amount of data travelling across the internet is growing so fast that the network could become overloaded and grind …
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Apr 04 2008
Site Waste Management Plans and collaboration platforms
In England, Site Waste Management Plans (SWMPs) will become a legal requirement this weekend – from 6 April 2008 – and will affect anyone procuring, designing, planning or managing a construction project costing more than £300,000, plus suppliers to the construction industry, and environmental regulators ie: local authorities and the Environment Agency. Awareness of the …
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