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The recent excellent BBC Life on Mars series painted a harsh, dark and in many ways ugly portrait of life in Britain in the mid 1970’s. It was in that this environment I started a career in construction, a young trainee QS, working a ‘statutory’ three day week with fuel and power rationing (only able [...]

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“There’s a clear direction … away from people thinking, ‘This is my PC, this is my hard drive,’ to ‘This is how I interact with information, this is how I interact with the web.’”
Occasionally you come across a quote that reinforces up what you have been trying to communicate for ages, such is the [...]

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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 [...]

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Last Friday Bright Green Talent posted this excellent five point guide:
Dreadlocks, demonstrations and duck ponds – What does today’s environmentalist look like?

What are the characteristics of these environmental leaders and how can you use them to drive your business forward?
1. Big minds: Environmental leaders have a history of excellence in everything they do. Graduating from [...]

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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 [...]

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The recent speech by Tom Watson MP, Minister for Transformational Governance, Power of Information,  can be found here and is a fascinating overview and history of information management – well worth a read.

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I received interesting feedback from two individuals last week who mentioned they use isite as a knowledge base when answering bid questions for new work, to ensure they are up to date with current thinking. One of these was local, ie in the North West UK, the other in the USA.
I now regularly [...]

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the Second Life construction group meets this evening to discuss web based tools and sites to help the industry.  Meeting will be held within second life at the Public Works Meeting Area, on the Public Works sim (9, 117, 301) starting at 4pm SLT -  (LA time)  which is  midnight here in the uk – [...]

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Bit late on this one as it has been picked up by Mel at Elemental and Phil at Zero Champion, but worth relaying across to isite readers is the Sponge guide to green home buying – a check list you can print off and take with you.
Nice
Reminds me of the 10 Principle guide to slow [...]

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Its clean and its efficient and its possible  – its efficiencity – whilst the government dither on policy Greenpeace have produced an attractive and informative animation to show just what is possible in our towns and cities.  It is a animated and illustrated portal to many of the initiatives and emerging technologies in the built [...]

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