This week I find myself involved with and or facilitating four communities of practice (CoP) , two new and getting started like the Leeds Sustainability Forum and Green Drinks Lancashire ( which after the second ‘gathering’ is becoming a useful green business network) one well established like the BAE FM CoP, and the Constructing Excellence [...]
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keeping communities of practice alive
Posted in collaborative working, comment, facilities management, links, web2.0, tagged Communities of Practice, CoP on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
building codes wanted for better future
Posted in architecture, built environment, collaborative working, community based fm, design, knowledge, sustainability, tagged Architecture for Humanity, building codes on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Received the following from Architecture for Humanity …. a great opportunity to share knowledge and skills collaboratively on line for the greater good.
We love to build. Therefore we are obsessed with global and local building codes. A few years ago, 1760 BC to be exact, the Code of Hammurabi was the first set of [...]
does the built environment ‘get’ the web?
Posted in IT, collaborative working, comment, futures, links, second life, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged be2camp, CEO's, cloud computing, saas, The Secret Life of CEO's, web2.0 on September 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
CEO’s do not ‘get’ the web, according to the last of four articles in today’s Telegraph that reviewed Steve Tappin and Andrew Cave’s book The Secrets of CEOs and looked at the emerging web3.0 and its impact on business.
Web3.0 will have a profound impact on building designs and the way we use buildings, through for [...]
be2camp goes live
Posted in News, admin, blogs, built environment, collaborative working, events, second life, sustainability, technology, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged be2camp, web2.0 on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
BE2Camp, 10 October, London
Web 2.0 meets the UK construction industry at a novel new event,
BE2camp, to be held on Friday 10 October at the Building Centre in London.
Having been part of the (international) planning team behind this event, I am delighted that we now have some details confirmed. If you fancy becoming part of [...]
latest Grid Works issued
Posted in built environment, collaborative working, comment, design, literature, second life, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged fillthathole, Fixmystreet, GridWorks, wikitecture on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The latest issue of Grid Works has been issued and is available for download from here or from vendors on the Public Works area within Second Life.
Once again CivilE Writer (editor) has pulled together an excellent journal that illustrates how second life and other virtual worlds can be used to improve the real world built [...]
on be excellent
Posted in EFQM, built environment, collaborative working, comment, facilities management, improvement, knowledge, leadership, project management, tagged Be Excellent, Deming, EFQM, ISO, ISO 9001 2008, lean contruction, Plan Do Check Act, six sigma, Total Quality Management on July 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Around 10 or so years ago I was part of a BE (now constructing excellence) development group which produced the Be Excellent document and tool.
The premise was to increase the awareness of constructions relationship within facilities management and excellence through collaboration by mean of a self, or facilitated assessment tool.
What is Be Excellent?
Be Excellent is [...]
cities and intention and collaboration and community
Posted in collaborative working, second life, virtual worlds, web2.0, tagged emergence, weblins on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s actually about people making things together. What’s going to come out of this is cities and intention and collaboration and community, because the capability this thing provides is mysterious in the degree to which is allows people to do things together.
This quote from Philip Rosedale Linden was the turning point in Second Life’s beginnings.
I [...]
wanted – intergrated construction manager –
Posted in collaborative working, comment, facilities management, leadership, project management, web2.0, tagged BIM, Mortenson on July 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A friend across in the US gave me the heads up on a job advert for an Integrated Construction Manager at Mortenson Construction . What made me look twice at the job specification was the inclusion of all the themes and issues that we discuss today, as being the way forward, themes of virtual design, [...]
collaboration makes construction lean
Posted in best practice, collaborative working, construction, improvement, links, procurement, project management, web2.0, tagged building information modelling, lean, lean construction 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. [...]
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Facilities Information Modeling
Posted in collaborative working, comment, construction, design, facilities management, tagged autodesk, be2camp, be2campnorth, BIM, FIM, FM on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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 and maintained? Do the benefits of BIM extend to facilities management? This whitepaper focuses on ways that facility [...]
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