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Monthly Archives: April 2009
HIP blog and tweets
Prompted by a tweet from Paul this morning I have been reading back through the excellent informative posts on his HipConsultant Blog In addition, since the end of 2008 HIP-Consultant.co.uk has been on twitter to Update followers with articles published both on our blog … Continue reading
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be2camp north shapes up
Interested in the Built Environment? Not sure about Web 2.0, social media, blogs, Twitter and the like? Then Be2camp North is the event for you. Following on from the world’s first Web 2.0 construction event, in London in October 2008, … Continue reading
Posted in events, sustainability, technology, virtual worlds, web2.0, women in construction
Tagged Ada Lovelace, be2campnorth, BIM, FIM, geocaching, jodie miners, Pam Broviak, Paul Wilkinson, second life, social media, Twitter, web2.0, wikitecture
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sustainability now champion
Phil Clarke at Building Mag @zerochamp has asked me to be a champion for the forthcoming Building magazine’s Sustainability Now virtual event taking place 13 and 14 May. Still awaiting details, but I will be online in the discussion lounge on the 14th … Continue reading
Posted in events, sustainability, technology, web2.0
Tagged BREEAM, ecobuild, passivhaus, Sustainability Now, virtual conference
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construction the future report wordle
Wordle image created for Constructing the Future Report 08/09
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twittering on as @fairsnape
An explantion as to why I have taken the decision to switch to a new twitter account; I have long suffered with @martinbrown account which has had problems in not being able to contribute to #hashtags, random hit and miss … Continue reading
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Facilities Information Modeling
The recent white paper BIM and Facilities Management from Autodesk, makes the case to extend Building IM to Facilities IM(or at least to include) Building information modeling (BIM) is changing the way buildings are designed and constructed-but is it changing how they’re operated … Continue reading
Posted in collaborative working, comment, construction, design, facilities management
Tagged autodesk, be2camp, be2campnorth, BIM, FIM, FM
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CBI low-carbon economy roadmap to 2020
For the first time the UK’s leading business group has set out its vision for a low-carbon economy in a series of climate change roadmaps. The roadmaps, called ‘Going the Distance’, set out a timetable of action to ensure carbon emissions … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, carbon, carbon footprint, comment, energy, News, route2zero, sustainability, transport
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Ada Lovelace at be2campnorth
I am delighted that Suw Charman-Anderson (Social Techology Consultant, Guardian writer and twitter-er) will be talking at be2campnorth on the 15th May in Liverpool on the inspiration of Ada Lovelace (Well actually Suw will be presenting from home via … Continue reading →