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: facilities management
BIM and FM who needs to educate whom?
Another resounding success for the CKE ThinkBIM series today that explored Building Information Management and Facilities Management and raised acutely pertinent issues and questions for future debate. There certainly was much learning and sharing, from Deborah Rowland’s keynote, (Cabinet Office … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, facilities management
Tagged 1:5:200, BIM, CKE, construction, design, facilities management, feedbackfeedforward, FIM, FM, FMSystems, Integration, soft landings, thinkBIM
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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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social media in the workplace
Workplaces need social media. Martin Pickard @FMGuru posted a question on twitter this morning on (should we) use Social Media in the Workplace in preparation for a debate this week. These debates are happening across all sectors, particularly so within the built … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, comment, facilities management, leadership, social media, web2.0
Tagged CSR, CSRWire, facilities management, FMGuru, FMX, real time web
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ISO 50001 Energy Management Standard issued
ISO has issued ISO 50001, a new standard for energy management systems that aims to help organisations establish systems and processes to improve their energy performance, including efficiency and consumption. It will of course be of particular interest to facilities … Continue reading
Posted in energy, facilities management
Tagged facilities management, ISO 14001, ISO 50001
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feedbackfeedforward for a FM led built environment sector.
Back in 2004/5 I chaired a Constructing Excellence working group, aBeCFM, an collaborative exercise between BE and CFM (Centre for Facilities Management) with a remit to explore the collaboration and integrated working across the built environment sectors of design, construction … Continue reading
Posted in 1:5:200, comment, construction, facilities management
Tagged feedbackfeedforward
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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
Cost of Carbon: “What was a carrot will now become a stick”
So are we prepared yet for the tranistion to a low carbon economy in the built environment? Accouncements this week from the UK Government regarding targets for carbon reduction will affect all aspects of energy use, conservation and management. With … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, carbon, carbon calculator, carbon footprint, comment, facilities management
Tagged carbon, co2, facilities management
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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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#tweetchats … observations + how to
What is a tweetchat? In my view: a global online brainstorm: a fast paced collection of expert opinion, links, references, questioning, learning but above all sharing around the theme of the chat. Dont attempt to make too much sense of it … Continue reading →