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: design
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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Will BIM move to FIM? (Webinar 16/4/10)
The concept of a Facilties Information Model as a more encompassing, arching umbrella model to a Building Information Model has been discussed over the last few years, but with little (public) evidence of use in practice. I guess in some … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, comment, design, facilities management, web2.0
Tagged BIM, BIMstorms, facilities management, FIM, FM, Webinar
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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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musing on a carbon 1:5:200
Reading many items and articles on the carbon issues that the built environment faces in the coming years, I have jotted a number of random thoughts in google notebook, which may one day be useful ‘spin’ for example: …almost every … Continue reading
Posted in 1:5:200, carbon, comment, design, energy, facilities management, sustainability, technology
Tagged facilities management, zero carbon
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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
on public building epc’s
The UK Communities and Local Government government website states Our buildings are responsible for almost 50 per cent of the UK’s energy consumption and carbon emissions. October 1st marked the date by which UK public buildings have to display their energy … Continue reading
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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European monsoon
Just as I read in the Guardian about European monsoons, Gridworks colleague Pam over in Illinois blogs on her Public Works site about dealing with water quantity and a one in 500 year event. Questions to be asked of our … Continue reading
Developers accused of pursuing gadgetry instead of saving planet
The Guardian reported on Saturday on the CABE criticism of architects and developers who are, according to CABE ignoring the threat of climate change and failing to address concerns over sustainability, (Based on design reviews of more than 700 large … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, built environment, comment, design, greenwash, News, sustainability
Tagged CABE
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Construction in Crisis? BIM the solution?
Construction in crisis? buildings too complex? communication of knowledge rapidly changing? (Thoughts from the road) Whilst I have long being a supporter of the need for the aims of BIM, it has been as seeing BIM as a technoloy to … Continue reading →