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: innovation
Three reasons to give your PQQ and Bids an independent Health Check
One: Many PQQ’s and Bids ‘deselect’ themselves through errors and omissions. It is obviously far better for errors, omissions, questions not (fully) answered or formatting issues to be picked up by independent review rather than your client. Don’t throw … Continue reading
Counting construction carbons with ConstructCO2
This blog has reported on numerous occasions (eg here and here) on the need to measure and improve carbon emissions from construction activities separately from that of the building itself or the facility in use. And the need for an … Continue reading
Posted in carbon, carbon calculator, carbon footprint, comment, construction, energy, improvement, innovation, News, sustainability, transport
Tagged be2camp, benchmarking, BREEAM, carbon calculator, carbon footprint, constructco2, CSH, ecobuild, evolution-ip, KPI, Pachube, Paul Morrell
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passivhaus innovation circle
The next Innovation Circle Session on ‘Passivhaus’ will look at the possible influencing factors of implementing the Passivhaus principles in the UK. Friday 20th March 1-3pm at the Adelphi Conference Room, Adelphi Building, UCLan. Led by Sabine Engelhardt – Green Cities, … Continue reading
recession thoughts and tips
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 … Continue reading
Posted in comment, fairsnape, futures, innovation, knowledge, resilience, web2.0
Tagged Charles Handy, Empty Raincoat, guide, networking, recession, sigmoid curves, survival, Twitter
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twittering on the edge of chaos?
It seems everyone is trying to understand and analyse twitter at the moment, so after nearly a year of twittering , here are my thoughts: Perhaps it is a little more than coincidence that Twitter has been named after our feathered … Continue reading
Posted in built environment, comment, improvement, innovation, technology
Tagged complexity theory, edge of chaos, emergence, management systems, simple rules, Twitter
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on web awareness
Paul at ExtranetEvolution AEC conferences, content and ‘unconferences’and Jodie at I have no opinion world architecture festival have commented recently on the low awareness and application of web technologies in the AEC and conference world. As one would expect following … Continue reading
Posted in comment, innovation, technology, web2.0
Tagged AEC, be2camp, BIM, BIMstorms, CAD, CE, collaborative working champion, conferences, ExtranetEvolution, facebook, Facebook to BIMstorms, HND, jodie miners, mel starrs, Paul Wilkinson, second life
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on sustainability now
Last Tuesday I attended the Building Sustainability Now conference event, from my study, popping out from the event and discussions only to deal with phone calls and other work issues. I also made a good number of new contacts, either … Continue reading
Posted in comment, events, innovation, IT, second life, sustainability
Tagged be2camp, Dave Hampton, eco-terrace, Linkedin, Paul Wilkinson, Phil Clark, Rob Annable, Sustainability Now, Twitter, web2, web3
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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 →