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Tag Archives: AEC
Constructing Excellence higher education summit
I have been involved with the UK’s Constructing Excellence movement for well over a decade (before Constructing Excellence was formed in 2003, I was involved in the work of several of its forerunners including the Construction Best Practice Programme, the … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, climate change, construction collaboration
Tagged AEC, AEngD, architecture, BIM, climate change, Constructing Excellence, construction, engineering, research, universities
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Construction, CRM and social media
‘Enterprise social networks’ and ‘enterprise collaboration’ are terms being increasingly associated with customer relationship management (CRM), and may change face of construction sales, marketing and customer service. On Tuesday, I attended a London seminar organised by m-hance concerning its Microsoft … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, construction collaboration, marketing, mobile, networks, PR, property/real estate, RSS, technology, Twitter, Web 2.0
Tagged AEC, Anthony Slumbers, BAM Construct UK, construction, CRM, David Bullock, Dynamics, ESN, Facebook, Glasnost21, LinkedIn, m-hance, marketing, Microsoft, PR, sales, Salesforce, Sharepoint, social business, Twitter, Zoho
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Content marketing, SEO and an expert wiki (again)
In a recent guest post (Two elements of BIM for manufacturers), I talked about the creation of BIM objects and about how content marketing could help construction product manufacturers and suppliers reach specifiers. Content marketing – according to its trade association, the CMA – … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, blogs, marketing, media, networks, PR, technology, Web 2.0, wikis
Tagged AEC, architecture, B2B, B2Bhuddle, BIM, construction, Content Marketing Association, Doug Kessler, engineering, Google, marketing, opinion leadership, PR, SEO, social media, Velocity Partners, Wikipedia, wikis
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RICS members: Twitter’s not about “what I had for breakfast”!
[Warning: rant] If RICS wants to help building surveyors use social media effectively, they should invite conference speakers who know what they are talking about. I attended the RICS Building Surveying conference in London yesterday* and sat through a couple … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, blogs, marketing, media, networks, PR, RSS, Twitter, video, Web 2.0, wikis
Tagged AEC, BIM, CIMCIG, construction, Facebook, Flickr, Kykloud, LinkedIn, Nick Blenkarn, PACE Partners, Paul Matthews, RICS, RSS, SEO, social media, Su Butcher, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube
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Specifiedby.com pushing “social specification”
I’ve written about SpecifiedBy several times (eg: November 2012, January 2013), impressed by CEO Darren Lester’s energy and enthusiasm to use social media to facilitate the construction specification process. Having launched his site at Ecobuild and started two blogs last … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, blogs, marketing, media, PR, Twitter, Web 2.0
Tagged AEC, architecture, construction, engineering, SpecifiedBy, specifiers, Twitter, Web 2.0
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SpecifiedBy.com launches, and doubles up its blogs
After my November 2012 blog post about SpecifiedBy, I did a follow-up interview with Darren Lester for my ExtranetEvolution tech blog in February, and have since had a closer look at the site following its Beta launch at Ecobuild in … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, blogs, branding, marketing, media, PR, Web 2.0
Tagged AEC, BIM, blog, construction, construction products, Ecobuild, London, marketing, PR, social media, SpecifiedBy
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HonestBuildings.com ‘buildings network’ launches in UK
Honest Buildings, launched in the UK today, puts buildings at the heart of its connections, with their energy efficiency open to scrutiny, encouraging owners and suppliers to demonstrate their carbon reduction commitments. Honest Buildings, a US-based property network that connects decision … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, climate change, marketing, networks, property/real estate, technology, Web 2.0
Tagged AEC, architecture, Arup, BRE, BREEAM, Buro Happold, carbon reduction, construction, engineering, Honest Buildings, LinkedIn, London, ODI, Open Data Institute, property, Real estate, social media, sustainability, Woobius, WSP
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DesigningBuildings: a content marketing and advertising opportunity
As regular readers of this blog will know, I have been interested in the potential use of wikis in the construction industry since the early 2000s, and have long regarded them as collaborative tools, with people collectively creating and improving … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, marketing, media, PR, property/real estate, technology, Web 2.0, wikis
Tagged Adwords, AEC, architectural ironmongery, architecture, CIOB, CIPR, collaboration, construction, DesigningBuildings, engineering, GAI, Google, marketing, PR, search engine, social media, Wikipedia, wikis
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tCn is dead. Long live TBCN!
tCn, the Construction Network, the online community launched in March 2010 by Ryan Briggs (for whom I provided some consultancy support; post) has been taken over by London’s Building Centre to form the core of its own construction community-building campaigns. … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, marketing, networks, PR, Web 2.0
Tagged AEC, architecture, Building Centre, construction, Construction Products Association, Construction Youth Trust, engineering, LinkedIn, London, Michael James, New London Architecture, Ryan Briggs, social media, TBCN, tCn, the Construction Industry Council, UK Green Building Council
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