martin brown
Improvement advocate in the built environment with a passion for social media, wildness, music, mountains, walking, cycling, astronomy, geostuff, outdoor, inspirations, dark skies, connectivity, edge of chaos, improvement, natural environment, CSR, built environment, virtual worlds, resilience, community enterprise ... and more
Category Archives: collaborative working
What is BIM
The following article was written to introduce PauleyCreative’s excellent BIM Infographic illustrating the recent NBS BIM survey, providing an important snapshot of our collaborative working BIM journey and future directions. It was also hosted on the 2degreesnetwork site as part of … Continue reading
Posted in collaborative working, construction, design, facilities management, IT
Tagged BIM, collaborative working, construction, design, social media
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Use of social media can lead to innovative #smworkplace employees
Following my last blog on Social Media in the workplace two very interesting links have come to light: From Business Insider: As elaborated by the Harmon research on social media productivity … inclusive collaboration will unleash huge organizational potential for knowledge discovery … Continue reading
Posted in collaborative working, comment, facilities management, IT, links, social media, web2.0
Tagged #smworkplace, collaborative working, social media, workplace
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Government Construction Strategy – have we been here before?
The Government have recently published its Construction Strategy, aiming to address … widespread acknowledgement across Government and within industry – backed by recent studies – that the UK does not get full value from public sector construction; and that it has failed to exploit the … Continue reading
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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keeping communities of practice alive
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 … Continue reading
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Tagged Communities of Practice, CoP
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building codes wanted for better future
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 … Continue reading
does the built environment ‘get’ the web?
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 … Continue reading
Posted in collaborative working, comment, futures, IT, links, second life, virtual worlds, web2.0
Tagged be2camp, CEO's, cloud computing, saas, The Secret Life of CEO's, web2.0
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be2camp goes live
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 … Continue reading
Posted in admin, blogs, built environment, collaborative working, events, News, second life, sustainability, technology, virtual worlds, web2.0
Tagged be2camp, web2.0
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latest Grid Works issued
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 … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, collaborative working, comment, design, literature, second life, virtual worlds, web2.0
Tagged fillthathole, Fixmystreet, GridWorks, wikitecture
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Where Greendeal will succeed …
We are now some 9 months away from Green Deal going live in the UK. Whether or not the initiative meets its very ambitous, even courageous aims, and manages to unravel its complexities and confusions, be assured Green Deal could … Continue reading →