Category Archives: IT

What is BIM

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

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 →

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Use of social media can lead to innovative #smworkplace employees

Posted on June 22, 2011 by

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 →

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does the built environment ‘get’ the web?

Posted on September 15, 2008 by

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 →

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on sustainability now

Posted on July 8, 2008 by

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 →

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sustainable construction commitments launched

Posted on June 11, 2008 by

The UK Government today launches its Sustainable Construction Strategy, with a whole raft of targets, measures and reporting mechanisms. It seems like it has been a long time coming, the consultation period being most of last year. Construction minister Shriti … Continue reading →

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can data centers power all homes …

Posted on May 1, 2008 by

How green is your data center? Stumbled upon an amazing post and comments over at The It Sanctuary According to figures from IT market research company Forrester Research, a data centre with 2,500 servers – relatively small compared to many … Continue reading →

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Modern online communities are the new co-operatives.

Posted on April 3, 2008 by

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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virtual world collaboration

Posted on March 12, 2008 by

As I have been developing an exciting project in Second Life recently, collaborating in-world (as they say) with people across the US, in the UK, Switzerland and elsewhere – but more on that later – the emerging virtual world collaboration … Continue reading →

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bd online event

Posted on December 6, 2007 by

bd virtual careers and exhibition event could well be a significant milestone for use of virtual platforms for events . We must make much more use of online conferencing and virtual meetings. For those of us not in the city … Continue reading →

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Integrated Project Delivery

Posted on November 12, 2007 by

ExtranetEvolution posted an in-depth review and commentary on the recently published Integrated Project Delivery guide, from the AIA in the US. Thinking this would be all IT and Technology I have given the guide a quick scan, but a few … Continue reading →

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