martin brown
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Tag Archives: BIM
PAS91: Update for LCBPC
Although we still await the revision to PAS91 that will align it with the Government Construction Strategy, PAS91 was included in the Lancashire Construction Best Practice Club event looking at winning work, reducing costs and adding value through adapting the … Continue reading
Innovation Voucher Provision
The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) is making Innovation Vouchers available worth up to £5000 for construction and built environment companies. Applications are due to open on the 10th of December and close on the 23rd of January 2013. Fairsnape in association with IBE-Partnership is delighted … Continue reading
Posted in benchmarking, best practice, fairsnape, improvement, social media, sustainability, winning work
Tagged benchmarking, bidding, BIM, collaborative working, Construction Carbon, CSR, Customer Management, EFQM, innovation vouchers, ISO14001, last planner, lean construction, PAS 2030, social media, Strategy, sustainability
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BIM Survey – More Contractors than Architects using #BIM
A recent, still to be published survey shows some very interesting BIM usage stats: The percentage of companies using BIM is now 71%, which is a jump when comparing previous statistics, with 17% in 2007 and 49% in … Continue reading
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Tagged BIM, building information modelling, collaborative spaces, collaborative working, future, McGraw-Hill, Survey
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PQQ Specification PAS 91 now to include BIM
I have blogged a number of times on PAS 91, the Publicly Available Specification for PQQ’s, (eg here) and on BIM, Building Information Management, (eg here - What is BIM) But … until now separately … It is encouraging to note then … Continue reading
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Tagged bidding, Bids, BIM, building information modelling, Government Construction Strategy, PAS 91, PQQ
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Celebrating social media in the built environment
Only two days left to our Be2Awards, 2012 Social Media awards event in London at the Building Centre, kicking off at 1.30pm. As with our 2011 awards, the event, part of Social Media London Week, will be an inspiring combination of … Continue reading
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Tagged be2awards, be2camp, be2talks, Bikes, BIM, Coffee, cycling, Green Deal, London Social Media Week, RMI., social media
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On changing culture …
This Wednesday, I attended, and was privileged to talk at, two seemingly unrelated events, one being Green Deal and the other Building Information Modelling (BIM). Both very topical with a common theme of real presenting challenges to the the way we … Continue reading
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Tagged BIM, building information modelling, construction, culture, Green Deal, never waste a good crisis
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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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Could built environment leaders cut it in a digital world?
An excellent Communique newsfeed from Nancy Settle-Murphy this morning, at looking at effectiveness of leaders in a virtual world. It strikes me this is a lesson perhaps for built environment and construction leaders as we move into a communication era that … Continue reading
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Tagged BIM, built environment, digital, leaders, leadership, Nancy Settle-Murphy, social media, technology
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Finally PAS91 update issued.
At last, the updated version of PAS 91 Construction prequalification questionnaires has been issued and is available as a free download on the BSi website. The updated version is aligned to the Government Construction Strategy and set to be madatory for Government … Continue reading →