Category Archives: collaboration
Peer Pressure Transforms our World, but Can it Transform our Industry?
In an interview for my book, BIM and Integrated Design: Strategies for Architectural Practice (Wiley, 2011) I asked Perkins+Will CIO, Rich Nitzsche: IT is constantly changing. P+W, founded in 1935 in Chicago, has 20 North American offices and three overseas, … Continue reading
Building Model Client-Designer Relationships
You don’t need to be a designer to benefit from the best practices espoused in this magnificent new book. A must-have for designers, those in design management and anyone who works with designers on integrated teams. What does a book … Continue reading
BIM and Integrated Design: The Week in Tweets
Here are some of my Tweets that had the most impact from May 16-22 2011, all 140 characters or less. BIM and IPD-related Tweets that my followers on Twitter have shared with their followers (retweeted or RT in Twitter parlance.) … Continue reading
First Fire, then the Wheel, and now BIM
Owners didn’t ask for BIM. Nor for IPD. Never did. Not then and not now. Its part of the disconnect we’re experiencing in the profession and industry. BIM may be purpose-built, But nothing’s purpose-driven until it’s owner-driven. And right now, … Continue reading
My Back Pages
Ah, but I was so much older then I’m younger than that now This is how someone considers buying a book. A physical book. They look at the cover. They turn it over and read the back cover. If compelled … Continue reading
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Building Knowledge in Architecture
Using books as floatation devices is nothing new. Cradle to Cradle, subtitled Remaking the Way We Make Things, is printed on waterproof paper for this reason. Poetry anthologies served this purpose after 9/11 as did commonplace books carried by soldiers. … Continue reading
The Value of Versatility
The DesignIntelligence website just posted an article I wrote, also published in the May/June technology issue of their printed journal, entitled BIM Beyond Boundaries. The hard copy of the journal will cost you $365. And while this also gets you … Continue reading
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Why Bring Another Book into this World?
Here’s the transcript of the talk I’ll be giving in San Francisco next week at KA Connect 2011, a Pecha Kucha talk entitled “I’ll Collaborate as Long as I Can Work Alone,” 20 slides, 20 seconds each. Let me know … Continue reading
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BIM and Integrated Design Quotes
Looking for a good quote to get you moving? In search of some instant inspiration? Sometimes words can provide this more readily than images. During research for my book, BIM and Integrated Design: Strategies for Architectural Practice (Wiley, 2011) I … Continue reading
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System Requirements for IPD to Flourish
We all know with each release of software the computer system requirements increase. Our computers must get more powerful as the software does. And also as the work processes become more collaborative, with more information sharing taking place. This is … Continue reading
Filed under BIM, collaboration, Integrated Design, Integrated Project Delivery, IPD, people, process, workflow
