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FIPEL Lighting to Replace LEDs?
A research group at Wake Forest University has been nosing around the lab experimenting with Organic LED tech for quite a while. They've found a way to create a light that overcomes the mercury-based...
View ArticleThe Discovery of Managing Fire and Our New Technologies
Can our new emerging technologies of BIM, Cloud Computing, Pervasive Social Media and "always on" communication compare to the importance of early mankind's discovery of how to manage fire? Some months...
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4d Printing + BIM
Seems the folks at MIT are at it again. This time with Prof/ Skyler Tibbets working with mediums created on 3d printers, but which have the difference of being able to change their physical geometry...
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The Employee Tracking Tag and Construction Sites
Recently the Wall Street Journal ran an article about a technology which has been around for a couple of years which tracks the location and tone of voice of the wearer and then correlates the...
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Are EV owners buying their 2nd car? Research in Japan says ???
If the market research recently released about buyers in Japan is any indication, then manufacturers need to take a harder look. The all electric cars are suffering most in surveys asking "Would you...
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Rigidity in Institutions is harbinger of failure
My good friend James L. Salmon has a blog called Collaborative Construction I know some of you read, but for those of you who don't check out this link to his post entitled (SMART)X Public Policy?...
View ArticleWhy Do Projects Fail? - A contrarian POV
Earlier today I came across an article entitled, "Why Do Projects Fail? - Learning how to avoid failure." An engaging topic to be sure. Especially for me, since I'm in the business of helping folks...
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Top Five Most Read Articles at this blog.
Seems people over the past year were really interested in the lean topics but just as interesting three of the most popular articles came from pretty early on and all three were tied to BIM in some...
View ArticleInfrastructure and AEC Possibilities "Fix It First"
President Obama announced in his State of the Union Address we should be focusing on fixing the broken infrastructure elements in our country. Not long after President Obama's address the civil...
View ArticleTexas Revises Legislation to allow more CoGeneration - Designers Awaken
If you don't know much about the power system in Texas they are about the only state in the 48 which has their own power grid isolated from their neighbors and it's been more blessing than curse to...
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Top 10 Renewable Energy Utilities in the US
Electric Power and Light just published the National Renewal Energy Labs (NREL) Top Ten list for Utilities selling renewable energy. Some familiar names continue to be on the list and some new names...
View ArticleBullitt Center Accepts Living Building Challenge 2.0
Some of you may know of the Living Building Challenge it seeks to leverage existing technologies in a way which combine to make a building completely self-sufficient water and energy centers and at the...
View ArticleLean Startups and the Flow of Value-A lesson for the AECO Sector
Dave West recently wrote an article in ProjectsAtWork.com's June issue that I immediately identified with. In fact he almost writes a parallel post to one of my original posts which is also one of the...
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Utility of the Future (UTOF) "Water Water where is it? There's not a drop to...
A couple of months ago a report was issued entitled “The Water Resources Utility of the Future: A Blueprint for Action.” was recently released by a coalition of organizations: The National Association...
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The Minnillieum Generation - How will they carry on the responsible...
Last week Market Watch, a online service of the Wallstreet Journal published another article in their "10 most" series. This time my local newsrag carried this installment so I wandered over the the...
View ArticleThe five words that can swing a meeting in your favour
This post is taken from an article found on www.Techrepublic.com. While an IT-centric publication, there are often gems to mine and harvest and this is one such post. It's been in my holding folder for...
View ArticleIs 57% waste real in delivery of projects in the Built Environment?
What is the highest portion of waste in construction projects?It appears that rework tops the list. The data show that rework often has more than one cause. A recent CII study called "A Guide to...
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Hospitals and a Barcalounger?? What happened to my hospital?
As an ex-CIO of a small healthcare insurance company. I remember attending some of the earliest conferences on the future of healthcare informatics beginning in 1984. The big discussion was the EMR or...
View ArticleFormula 1, Babies and Buildings A String of Connected Possibilities
A recent Ted Talk Peter van Manen of Mclaren electronics visits the possibilities of taking the thousands of data points of a Formula 1 car and applying them to to a pediatric intensive care ward. I...
View ArticleBIM mandates ... Is Snake Oil not far behind?
Many of you know I'm a very strong proponent of Building Information Modeling for many reasons, but when I start seeing government mandates for public works projects I have to take pause. Why? Well...
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