Posted on May 14, 2008 by fairsnape
Oliver Goh, Business Development Manager, Implenia presented through second life on the topic of smart building management through second life.
Controlling buildings through virtual worlds - no investment required by the client or customer, Implemia use second life as a cost effective approach to managing their buildings on behalf of their customers
This has been written up [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2008 by fairsnape
To enable the second life discussions around isite themes of built environment sustainability, isite now has a new meeting facility within second life courtesy of the Public Works Island.
In addition to adhoc discussions with second life friends from around the world, it is planned to hold structured, but still informal events, exchanging ideas and [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2008 by fairsnape
Now the Eco City World Summit 2008 has concluded there is a rich source of live blog reports, reviews and videos over at the Eco City blog.  Go view and mine the collective source of global views on the future of cities
If you take away one thing from the summit : the ecological city message [...]
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Posted on April 7, 2008 by fairsnape
We may now have a handbook for sustainability change in our sector.
When facilitating sessions on sustainability in the built environment, I often get delegates to ’stand in the future’, 2030 is always a good date, imagine what buildings and our use of them would be like, and try to identify what messages they would send [...]
Filed under: built environment, comment, construction, education, futures, housing, innovation, links, literature, post carbon, sustainability | Tagged: Think 08, transition towns | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 1, 2008 by fairsnape
I have for a while now been exploring Second Life’s contribution to the built environment - on themes of collaboration, education and usability.
One of these ideas is to create a UK Level 6 Eco Home within second life to use as an educational device. A meeting a month or so ago with Pam Broviak [...]
Filed under: comment, education, futures, housing, innovation, links, open source, procurement, second life, technology, virtual worlds | Tagged: Brand Woodin, Dunster, eco homes, Hanham Hall, Lasalle, Level 6, Pam Renoir, Public Works Island, second life, TEEX | 4 Comments »
Posted on March 31, 2008 by fairsnape
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 [...]
Filed under: 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 | 1 Comment »
Posted on March 27, 2008 by fairsnape
The science of nanotechnology is already revolutionising the worlds of medicine and construction, according to a Guardian article looking at nanotech in food, Once Bitten
Seamless tubes of graphite one atom thick and 10,000 long (to the naked eye, large quantities would look like soot), carbon nanotubes are up to 100 times stronger than steel but [...]
Filed under: construction, energy, facilities management, futures, solar | Tagged: asset management, facilities management, futures, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, nanotubes, solar cells | No Comments »
Posted on March 20, 2008 by fairsnape
Building Design asks the question is the code working and carries two viewpoints. Andy von Bradsky sees it as credible tool that will evolve and allow us to lead the field in zero carbon futures, whereas Mark Brinkley sees it as a graveyard of intentions.
The article finishes with a what do you think prompt…
I [...]
Filed under: BREEAM, CSR, carbon footprint, comment, construction, design, futures, housing, route2zero, sustainability | Tagged: carbon footprint, code, CSR, eco homes, eco place, level6, sustainable communities, triple bottom line, zero carbon futures | No Comments »
Posted on March 14, 2008 by fairsnape
A wealth of information relating to urban and city futures is to be found through the EcoCity2008 conference web site and media blogs, including interviews and podcasts through the Tomorrow Matters internet radio.
With a strap line of Get Ready to change the world… Ecocity World Summit 2008 will bring together the key innovators, decision makers, [...]
Filed under: built environment, events, facilities management, futures, sustainability | Tagged: eco city, eco town, transition towns | No Comments »
Posted on March 12, 2008 by fairsnape
As I have been developing an exciting project in Second Life recently, collaborating in-world (as they say) with people across the US, in the UK, Switzerland and elsewhere - but more on that later - the emerging virtual world collaboration concepts have been rattling around my brain, emails and blogs that I read.
Whilst I [...]
Filed under: IT, blogs, collaborative working, comment, events, futures, second life, virtual worlds | Tagged: second life, telepresence | No Comments »
