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built environment events … coming soon
Posted in News, best practice, built environment, comment, events, links, route2zero, second life, sustainability, technology, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged be2camp, best practice, elevate east lancs, Public Works Island, route2zero, Sustainability Now, UCLAN, web2.0 on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
collaboration makes construction lean
Posted in best practice, collaborative working, construction, improvement, links, procurement, project management, web2.0, tagged lean construction, building information modelling, lean on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Whilst sharpening up my knowledge on the latest lean in construction thinking I came across this excellent article by Karen Wilhelm which mashes up collaborative working, lean, BIM, 3D and 4D design, collaborative contracts, value chains and more. The brief for Karens paper reads:
Lean in the construction industry offers some lessons for lean manufacturers. [...]
rethinking construction – ten years after
Posted in News, best practice, built environment, collaborative working, construction, tagged constructing excellence, rethinking construction on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From Constructing Excellence:
Reviewing change in the UK construction industry and the next ten years, your chance to shape the future of the industry by learning from the past
CE are reviewing the last ten years of improvement and its impact, kick-started by John Egan’s landmark report – Rethinking Construction – and before that the Latham [...]
Facilities Management now in Second Life
Posted in CSR, best practice, community based fm, ecological footprint, events, facilities management, innovation, second life, sustainability, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged Brand Woodin, Centre for Facilities Management Second Life, Nils Gerberg, Pro Work, Sustainable FM on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The inaugural Centre for Facilities Management Second Life (SL) seminar took place today, Wednesday April 2nd 2008. The seminar, facilitated by Martin Brown, (aka Brand Woodin in SL) focused on Sustainable FM, but also referred to the developing research area of Community-based FM which looks at FM outside of the traditional boundaries and organisational settings [...]
The Grid Works
Posted in best practice, cement, collaborative working, comment, education, facilities management, links, second life, technology, virtual worlds, tagged GridWorks, SLengineer, TEEX, virtual worlds on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
SLengineer has changed its name to Grid Works with its latest issue to reflect the magazine’s goal of documenting and reporting how companies and people are using online services and tools to support and enhance their work in engineering and science related fields. Available as pdf here
in this issue:
Walking into the Map [...]
sustainable connectivity
Posted in CKE, CSR, admin, benchmarking, benchmarkwalks, best practice, blogs, built environment, carbon footprint, comment, ecological, ecological footprint, energy, facilities management, fairsnape, futures, greenwash, improvement, links, nature, sustainability, virtual worlds, tagged Beacon Fell, bencmarkwalks, connectivity, Forest of Bowland, John Muir, learning sharing, natural environment, Patrick Geddes, responsible sourcing, Satish Kumar, second life, soil soul society, supply chain, walking, work place folk on March 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A new look for isite with a new image on the top banner(*). I like this design as it includes a RSS button – to get isite delivered to your desktop, and a search facility to search back through isite items.
But a little more too. After reflection on this blogs contents and [...]
Worlds greenest city and eco home?
Posted in architecture, best practice, construction, design, energy, housing, sustainability, tagged Eco Cities, Eco City 2008, eco homes, eco-towns, Freiburg, Passiv Haus on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Is the German city of Freiburg, the worlds greenest Eco City? Is the Passiv Haus the most effective and efficient Eco-Home? If so why are we not learning for eco-homes and eco-towns in the UK ?
Also, more on Eco Cities at Eco City 2008
a real school for the future – without eco-bling
Posted in architecture, best practice, blogs, built environment, carbon footprint, cement, comment, construction, design, education, green buildings, greenwashing, innovation, schools, sustainability, technology, tagged best practice, BSF, Building Schools for the Future, eco-bling, schools, toxic materials on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Education Guardian reports today on the development of Acharacle School on the Ardnamurchan peninsula in Scotland. The report by Tariq Tahir, should make ‘essential ‘ reading for those involved in school design, construction and in community assets. In addition the school childrens blog ‘they are building outside our class‘ illustrates how construction can be a [...]
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best practice procurement and support
Posted in best practice, comment, events, procurement, sustainability, web2.0, women in construction, tagged ACCROS, Bid to Win, bidding, BSRIA, footprintfriends, LCBPC, sustainable stars on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Lancashire BPC event last Thursday saw a good number of organisations exhibiting and discussing procurement and support issues with around 70 delegates. The objective of the day was to allow organisations in the Lancashire area to showcase their procurement requirements and or areas of support, and for delegates to find out their customers requirements and [...]
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