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Web 2.0, sustainability and sharing AEC data

by Paul Wilkinson(pwcom.co.uk)

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• Green AEC IT?• Is construction serious about IT?• Collaboration – still c. 2000• Critique• Not just about Web 2.0• Where next?

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• ICT once overlooked in construction initiatives• Then…

– “Accelerating Change” (2002): first industry report to mention IT explicitly

– “2012 Construction Commitments” (2006) said:

"IT-based collaborative tools and communication technologies will be exploited."

• But…– just two sentences on ICT in “Strategy for

Sustainable Construction’ (2008)– No meaningful mention of ICT in “Construction

Matters” (July 2008)

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Key research agenda (2008)• Collaborative prototyping to define and

deliver client requirements

• Efficient, seamless sharing of information across the built environment stakeholders

• Ability to interact with real-time information regardless of physical location or timezone

• Mass adoption and application of off-site manufacturing, automation and mechanisation processes

• Well trained, well qualified workforce able to use the latest best practice technologies

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SpecsDrawingsMinutesProgrammesCost planscorrespondenceetc

EmailFaxCourierPost (CD, paper)

Traditionally…

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• Fewer interoperability issues

• Less paper

• Latest information available to all

• Complete record of project

• Full information audit trail

• Single central repository of information

• Greater re-use of information (eg: for H&S File, standards, tendering, defects mgmt, O&M, etc)

What does it look like…?

So collaborate!

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But old…• technologies (EDMS, FTP, file-sharing) • hard/software (static, office-based) • workflows (paper-based, impersonal, ‘push’) • supply-chains (fragmented, dis-enfranchised) • attitudes (contractual, price-driven) • mindsets (silo-based, anti-‘social’) • time-frames (short-term)

• mentalities (build if possible)

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It’s time for new…• technologies (Web 2.0, Web 3.0, BIM) • hard/software (mobile, SaaS)

• workflows (model-based, rich media, personal, ‘pull’) • supply-chains (joined-up, integrated, inclusive, end-to-end) • attitudes (collaborative, sharing, value focus) • mindsets (open, ‘social’)

• time-frames (long-term) • mentalities (build if necessary and sustainable)

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How will we get there? …• technologies – Asite cBIM, ArchiCAD 13, BIMaaS?

• hard/software – virtual desktops, SaaS, Woobius Eye, Incite, Kalexo

• workflows – model-sharing, rich media, sharing IP

• supply-chains – end-user engagement, offsite fabrication, “connected environments”

• attitudes – “democratic design”, open source, Creative Commons

• mindsets – Gen Y (+ Gen Z) more open, ‘social’

• time-frames – climate change

• mentality – 1 : 5 : 200, focus on life-time cost

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London, October 2009

Thank you

Contact: Paul WilkinsonBlog: www.extranetevolution.com

Email: paul.wilkinson@pwcom.co.ukTel: +44 (0)20 8858 1104

mob: 07788 445920Twitter: @EEPaul