landscape BIM #bsl2015

Stage 1: Landscape BIM

 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
 09/04/2015
 Stage 1
 Session 5

This lecture will examine proposed and established processes of Landscape BIM.

Including examples, visualisations, diagrams, videos and a Q&A session at the end. This lecture will allow professionals from across the construction sector to get a better understanding of what is happening in Landscape BIM. From geodesign to GIS and back again via a host of IT tools and datasets.

The lecture is split into two main themes. Landscape BIM at the site scale, or site BIM, and landscape BIM at the super-site scale, or Landscape scale BIM. Each section will examine the construction work that is being done in the Landscape at that scale with new and emerging technologies. Then the section will give an overview of the professionals who are involved, examining areas where improvements have been made. Also included will be the data and information that is being used, where it is coming from, how it is being used, and how it is creating greater quality outcomes throughout the construction lifecycle.

We’re covering two topics: Landscape BIM at the site scale, and landscape BIM at the super-site scale.

At the site scale, site BIM works with buildability, design interfaces and the terrain. With the professional input of arborists, ecologists, civil engineers and architects. This process deals with the implications of applying man made construction to real world situations. Implications can include building regulations, planning policy, ecology and social impacts and spatial coordination.

At the super site scale, or landscape scale BIM it brings together mapping, infrastructure, planning and urban design. With the professional inputs including professionals such as Ecologists, Landscape Architects, Town Planners, Urban Designers.
Super-site BIM deals with: geospatial location; landscape context; integrated green and grey infrastructure; urban design; planning designations; and, human and physical geography. The tools available to the landscape scale.

With examples throughout, the lecture will provide a stimulating, varied and informative overview of the developments in this field.

Learning Objectives

• An understanding of the data sets and tools that are available to leverage the benefits of Landscape BIM. How these are being used and how innovations in technology are creating more robust, user friendly and responsive environments.
• An insight into the technological BIM trends in this area, how they apply at different scales and times within the construction lifecycle to analyse, design, communicate and realise development in the landscape.
• An understanding of what professional relationships are impacted upon by Landscape BIM and how new and enhanced information sharing capabilities between professionals will improve the effectiveness of the construction lifecycle.

Speakers

Professor Nashwan DawoodDirector – Centre for Construction Research & Innovation (CCIR)
Partnership between practice and university. Research and then it’s application. Presentation in two parts. The first by an associate. The second part the future. 
BIM is over used as a way to flavour things. Improve efficiency and effectiveness. Site optimisation through the use of cut and fill. Typically a civils activity. A design, geologically, landfill tax and logistic exercise. Different types of software that have to be interoperable which is a challenge. Link to project planning and workflow optimisation requirements. 
The big challenge is coordinating with the site surroundings and its context. 
Analysis is a big part. Not just a modelling activity. Specification is a challenge with joint coming up 249 times in the digital plan of work, but things are improving. 
Ecology and arboriculture are two areas not often seen in the usual interfaces. 
Does not understand the fixation with Revit by architects. Interface. Footprint and slab level. 
Modelling/simulation of plantation as a landscape asset is almost impossible. Difficult to achieve. Visual screening for town planning. Phasing and buildability. A desire to plan and organise by the designer rather than leave to the sub contractors.Landscaping is often as complex as a building. Platforms civil 3d, pads and Revit. Civil 3d takes time to set up but modification and iterations are straightforward. Pads is easy to set up but lots of rework to alter. Whilst research is good, but companies have budgets.
They chose Revit but it’s not ideal so API was used to add functionality for their own use. 
Creating objects that are intelligent and working with gradients that work!!!
Having to make the most of what is available. 

Created functions in Revit using c++


Very early work in cobie and should have results this time next year.
Landscape scale BIM the future :Last 3 years of work. Semantic modeling and leveraging it in an unconfined way. Lots of information but it needs to be integrated and not looked at in isolation. Semanco – semantic tools for carbon reduction in urban planning. 

Enabling scenarios for stakeholders At the heart is the semantic modeling of data


Outcome : a more liveable and sustainable urban environment. 
Analysis of energy consumption and then informed decision making to address the issues.  Www.eecities.com

BIM for Health and Safety: Virtually Sorted #bsl2015

Stage 4: BIM for Health and Safety: Virtually Sorted

 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
 08/04/2015
 Stage 4
 Session 4

Too many people are killed and injured in our industry each year, despite the best efforts of all parties concerned. While many are utilizing BIM for efficiency gains and improved profit margins, perhaps fewer are considering health and safety.

This class highlights the wealth of opportunities that BIM provides to improve health and safety standards and effective coordination: the means to exploit the potential of BIM. Contemporary examples of innovative practice on a variety of projects will aid understanding and provide inspiration for the audience.

Even in times of economic downturn, construction is still one of the largest industry sectors in the UK. It is also one of the most dangerous and hazardous. Publications such as the Eagan report have pushed for a 20 per cent reduction in reportable accidents, but despite the rate of injuries over the last 20 years being significantly reduced, construction remains a high-risk industry in which to work.

The incorporation of health and safety into BIM, is, as modern parlance would have it, a ‘no brainer’

Although it is not new, BIM has seen a huge uptake in interest in recent years. This is partly as a result of Government support, but mainly due to great leaps in technology. Tiny differences in input can result in overwhelming differences in outcome; this is especially true of health and safety. As we stand at the verge of a new digital era we must aspire to make better and safer decisions through innovative and collaborative working enabled by Building Information Modelling. However, the basic principle is simple. BIM is about gathering, using, interpreting and transmitting information.

Is it such a departure, therefore, to consider how health and safety information might be included in a BIM? Is this not a massive opportunity for those of us working in construction to embrace this technology and its development, together with the increased efficiency and discipline that it brings? The model environment essentially becomes a backdrop for a zero harm culture.
The commercial advantages are fairly obvious, but the potential benefits in improved health by reducing accidents and deaths are so great as to be almost unquantifiable.

As the industry begins to see how these two topics can and should intersect, this class provides context and practical advice by exploring how it will shape the health and safety professional’s role, and what tools and processes will need to be embedded in future. The health and safety role is evolving towards collaboration, structured data and sharing of information as BIM – the incarnation of these sensibilities – increasingly underpins construction practice.

The incorporation of health and safety into BIM, is neither something which is the exclusive preserve of the ‘technology’ generation, nor something which is beyond us as health and safety professionals. It is, as modern parlance would have it, a ‘no brainer’.

Learning Objectives

1. A new approach to safety innovation is needed. As the potential to influence and prevent construction injuries decreases exponentially as a project progresses, an effective form of safety-programme elements occurs at planning and preconstruction phases. How can BIM help this?
2. What practical applications can be developed at each stage of the construction process to improve it health and safety, and how do the users of this information become part of the process and interact with the rest of the design team?
3. In order to get the best from BIM for health and safety coordination, some important general questions need to be answered. What information can be gathered? How can it be translated into something useful, which adds value to the health and safety arena?

Speakers

• 
  Stefan MordueArchitect & NBS Business Solutions Consultant – NBS

Member of the bim2050 group

Building information for dummies is out in summer.

Publishes approached UK authors.

Story telling is important for health and safety

Health and safety can be traced back to Babylonian law.

In 1930 1 death per $1m dollars spent.

Ons/UK contractors group statistics.

Government construction strategy , health and safety does not get a mention.

To get new talent it has to be a safe industry.

Hazard vs risk. Not the same thing.

Opportunities :

Mobile tech has to be thought through. Rugged and available to physical workers.

Tracking and sensing – My zone worker alert system.

Training and communication. Getting essential information to site. Programme on a large tv. As basic as that.

Death arising from the language barrier. Could visual have been better.

Balfour Beatty smart box. Computer station in a steel box left on site.

Coventry simulation centre for cave virtual reality. Blended learning and simulation.

Rehearse and plan before getting to site.

On site verification but also update in the field.

Be aware that current policies band devices on site.

Integrating BIM and safety : an automated rule based checking system for safety planning and simulation.

Detect apertures of a certain size.

There will always be human intervention.

MGF out visual understanding videos on you tube.

On site clash detection by factoring in time to analyse periods of high risk.

Turner construction – BIM safety submission in New York department of buildings

Zones of no go areas, in a crane sweep for instance.

BUT…this is all too late in the process.

The mcleamy curve also applies to health and safety.

Most effective safety programme starts at planning and pre con

Think about hazards

CDM 2015 and BIM go hand in hand. Association of project safety

CDM coordinator replaced by the principle designer.

Proposal for pas1192:6 risk and hazard information for H&S. Aec3 bim4h&s group

How to embed H&S information and data management.

H&S information has an incremental growth through the process.

Cobie data drop input from mordue and finch

Think of an object as a placeholder for data and geometry.

How to record and present hazards. Simple exclamation on the model to schedule and display for hazardous materials.

4d model with she markers.

Ifc has a property set called risk.

Cobie has an issues tab

Option to put data on a website is about the same cost as the lever arch files.

Let’s start thinkng about a digital health and safety file.

Human behaviour is the biggest impediment.

The new BIM Toolkit and Digital Plan of Work #bsl2015

Stage 1: The new BIM Toolkit and Digital Plan of Work

 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
 08/04/2015
 Stage 1
 Session 3

This class will detail the process by which a new BIM Toolkit and Digital Plan of work will be made available to the whole of the construction industry from the Spring of 2015.

NBS has been awarded, by Innovate UK, a £1m contract to develop a free-to-use BIM Toolkit that will serve as an online checking and validation system for all BIM led projects. This is momentous development for the industry and will be an essential part of a building project lifecycle.

Use of the Toolkit is advisable for all public sector projects when the requirement to meet Level 2 BIM comes into effect in 2016. In addition, the NBS team behind the toolkit hopes that the private sector will also adopt it as the industry standard.

The BIM Toolkit will make available a Digital Plan of Work alongside a classification system that will incorporate definitions for over 5,000 construction objects at each delivery stage of a project.

NBS is the lead on this project team, which also includes the BIM Academy, BDP, Laing O’Rourke, Microsoft and Newcastle University.

The cloud-based Toolkit and Digital Plan of Work, together with a new unified classification system, are regarded as the only remaining components needed to complete the suite of standards, protocols and guidance that will deliver the Government’s definition of Level 2 BIM and satisfy forthcoming public sector requirements.

Attendees of this class will be given a practical demonstration of the Toolkit and Digital Plan of Work.

Learning Objectives

1. How the new BIM Toolkit and Digital Plan of Work will benefit not just the construction industry, but individual organisations
2. How to use the BIM Toolkit and apply the Digital Plan of Work to individual projects
3. Why the UK government has instructed the development of the BIM Toolkit and Digital Plan of Work and its expectations of how it is implemented

Speakers

• 
  Professor Steve LockleyProfessor of Building Modelling – BIM Academy
• 
  Dr. Stephen HamilDirector of Design and Innovation – NBS
• 
  David Philp MSc, BSc, FRICS, FCIOB, FGBCDirector BIM – EMEA – AECOM

• Creating information that can be used for queries.

  Level of definition and plain language questions.

  Clarity was the goal. Define/test/use

  Data growth is aligned to purpose.

  Goldilocks enigma. Just right. Not too hot or too cold.

  Assessment and need stage

  What are the PLQs that can be answered digitally?

  Properties at project level and at stage. Deciding roles at a stage. Then tasks by stage. Not all data is model based.

  Schedule of services taken from institute processes are built in as tasks.

  Template based re-use of project data structures.

  Open API and export functionality built in.

  Procurement stage

  Exported file from EIR can be reimported into the bidder area.

  Production phase

  DPOW defines who, what and when. Simple.

  LOD and LOI selectable informed deliverable editing per item.

  Cobie the data schema rather than cobie the excel spreadsheet.

  Iso12006-2 uniclass 2015

  Synonym based search matching.

  Built on the xbim platform which is open source.

  How often do designers refer to the information requirements?

  

  Flexibility is a must to prevent atrophy.

  Validating if the data actually exists. Not whether it is correct.

  Cobie plus time and stage.

  Define/develop/submit/validate/accept

  Export requirements as IFC with properties and data

  Non cloud based option for viewing is available.

  Beta programme in a couple of weeks.

  Www.openbim.org

The Road to BIM Excellence #bsl2015

Stage 1: The Road to BIM Excellence

 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
 08/04/2015
 Stage 1
 Session 2

As a client you have decided that BIM is for you – but what now? You have attended seminars and discussed approach, but how do you take the next step and use theory to inform practical application?

This class, through the use of the Imperial College London BIM Implementation Partner case study will demonstrate the steps a client took to develop a coherent and effective BIM strategy, bespoke to their organisation.  Key case study project analysis will be given on the innovative use of the BIM Excellence methodology and online platform to test an organisations competency to adopt and embrace a BIM strategy and in turn assess supply chain members’ capability to deliver according to client’s requirements.  The class will demonstrate how to establish the needs of an organisation and in how to translate these into a concise set of Employers Information Requirements for use on a live project.

Speakers

• 
  Michael LytridesImperial College – Director of Estates Projects
• 
  Dr Bilal Succar BA(LAU), PhD (UoN)Director – Change Agents + BIM Excellence

Olly ThomasInformation Manager – BIM Technologies
College is always in the top 10 world wide. Education and research and putting research to use in society. White City 25 acre new site. The client has their own project process map that is currently under review. Current plan is aligned with BIM and lessons learned. 
Not only amongst design teams but between stakeholders and supply chain. Scope/assess/analyse/plan/act/measureIt’s not all about BIM it’s about efficiency and meeting the clients needs. Not all about the new but about integrating. BIM should be for the client. Start at that goal and work backwards. be an active part of the client decision making process. Map out which systems are doing what and when. Integrate with the existing condition. A take on the CDE for using for the client internal processes and not just the external. MPDT goes down to the component level. (Good)
Test the combined conditionScope of services definition. 2009 the BIM framework automation in construction BIMe launched in 2011
Identify a measurable targetAssess current status. Use a structured languageIdentify the gap and the shortest route
Assess/learn/implement
It’s about simplification. Looking at a situation and break it down.What/when/howCompetency items are collected through research. Questions must reflect the needs of the market and the client. Sometimes even a specific project. Level of evidence can be varied. Assessor/implementer/adopterSignificant and measurable. 
Client feels that the industry is moving too slowly. Not finding the maturity within the approved supply chain. This is deliberate due to caution and learning being gradual. Moulding BIM around existing processes. Slow but sometimes slow is a good thing. 
Most of the underlying tech for BIMe is in the public domain and the research. 
You can just storm in but respect the existing conditions. 

Be Smart, Be Lean, Be Big: A Strategic Business Proposition for BIM #bsl2015

Stage 2: Be Smart, Be Lean, Be Big: A Strategic Business Proposition for BIM

 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
 08/04/2015
 Stage 2
 Session 1

In recent years, construction industry stakeholders have been implementing BIM for a number of reasons; Level 2 compliance targets, pre-qualification box ticking, saving face relative to competitors and peers, and interests in emerging technologies are examples of common drivers for BIM implementation that, while valid, fail to completely answer the ‘Why BIM?’ question from a business strategy perspective. This class will examine the link between BIM, Lean, and Theory of Constraints (TOC) business principles to give construction industry professionals, building owners and operators a bottom line proposition to fundamentally answer the ‘Why BIM?’ question.

The class will be structured in four related sections:

An introduction to Lean and TOC: Many construction industry stakeholders will have had some exposure to Lean and TOC, but most will have had limited engagement with these business principles on a formal and practical level. The first part of the class will provide an overview of Lean and TOC and frame their fundamental principles within the context of the construction industry.

Lean and BIM: The link to Lean and BIM has been the subject of discourse in many construction industry forums. This part of the class will outline the eight wastes (Transport, Inventory, Motion, Waiting, Over production, Over processing, Defects, and Skills) of Lean and identify BIM workflows, tools, and techniques for targeting these business risks.

TOC and BIM: This section will offer insight into a systems approach to the design, construction, and operation of building projects and highlight BIM workflows that impact throughput on construction projects. Design, construction documentation production, building construction, project management, procurement, and maintenance processes and outcomes will be discussed in a BIM for continuous business improvement context.

Summary of BIM as a strategic business proposition: The final section of the class will identify the links between the concepts of BIM, Lean, and TOC and demonstrate the business imperative for improving construction projects through investment in people, process, and technology for the betterment of all sector stakeholders.

Learning Objectives:

1. Expose delegates to formal business theories associated with bottom line improvement, which can be applied to the construction industry.
2. Demonstrate the link between BIM and functional business processes.
3. Provide delegates with examples of BIM workflows, tools, and techniques that can be viewed in the context of systemic improvements that lead to competitive advantage.

Speakers

• 
  Richard DePalmaDirector – The DPW Group

Focused on the business side of why we do BIM.

Services bimfit bimcheck and bimcontrol

Align the purpose of BIM with the purpose of the business

TOC – theory of constraints.

80% people and 20% process. People are the largest overhead.

Innovative for the sake of promoting the business and not for innovations sake.

Business strategy is reviewed typically twice a year.

Strategic view versus accounting view. Investment and not overhead.

PESTEL analysis. http://pestleanalysis.com/what-is-pestle-analysis/

BIM is a temporary competitive advantage.

You don’t get to do the cool stuff without the finance to support you. Make more money now and in the future. Profit is not a dirty word.

TOC

The goal by Eli goldratt 1984

 

1. Find the constraint
2. Exploit it
3. Subordinate everything else to the constraint. No point having materials on site if no one is going to use it. 
4. Elevate
5. Reassesses the system over time to find the next constraint. 

In our industry most likely resources. Could it be process related. 

Resource levelling through BIM with complexity added by customer demands. 

Getting lean:

Design Transportation from a to b. From brain to brain. 

Minimise material movement on site. 

Operations – locating equipment or people in the correct space.

Lean de risks a project.

Minimise travel, use virtual.

Some focus on teams/gangs needs for a job including tools, materials and van.

Reduce waiting for information. Everyone is waiting for someone else to do something and no one is actually doing any work.

Just because you can do things does not mean you should. Overproduction. Getting team size correct on construction teams.

Use BIM data for value engineering material specification.

get up to date information on to site.

Reverting to type wastes investments made.

Align BIM output with supply chain capabilities.

You only get paid when you have done the work.

BIM & ROI – It’s time to prove it! #bsl2015

Interview: BIM & ROI – It’s time to prove it!

 11:05 AM – 11:30 AM
 08/04/2015
 Auditorium

James will be presenting on the use of BIM to drive value.

Clients such as James are being asked to fund ever more expensive and time consuming BIM operations on projects, and if they’re going to do so will expect to see a return on their investment.  This may not just be financial, it could be in terms of programme and quality or reduction in risk and cost.  However James argues that a lot of time seems wasted on the process and not the output and as a result clients may begin to wonder if it is worth the effort.

Find out from one of the leading clients in the UK how they are generating return on investment from BIM and what is required from the industry to ensure clients adopt BIM and the reason that they won’t.

Panel Host

• 
  David Philp MSc, BSc, FRICS, FCIOB, FGBCDirector BIM – EMEA – AECOM

Speakers

James PellattHead of Projects – Great Portland Estates
BIM – fad or fabWe are at a dangerous point in time. Sinclair c5 to electric car, 30 years!The private sector has benefited from the public sector lead. Aim to deliver superior returns. As a client organisation they have taken the lead. Invest in great design, look good and operate well. Know that they don’t have the monopoly on a good idea. No problem with profit. It’s not a dirty word. Long term projects with a 3 year learning cycle. Lessons learnt. 

1. Be clear in the EIR
2. Understand the technical limitations of the team an backfill
3. Structural engineer need to look in both directions. MEP and architecture
4. Need main contractor buy in
5. Need to pay sub contractors to supply information model. Ask and then pay. 

Adding value

1. Prove as built
2. 4d synchro modelling is extremely valuable to visualise the build. Profit
3. Don’t need full cobie data
4. Only need asset info for MEP
5. To early for 6D

The Gartner hype circle 2014

 

BIM does not solve it all. You still have people.

BIM needs to demonstratably protect profit.

FM – 6d is great but think about the person who comes to maintain it. How to make them efficient.

Big focus on MEP

Modelling existing from archive data is not perfect but a bloody good start to make a sensible reduction in risk.

Tens of millions in claims have been made in the past due to late information.

Lessons learned recorded on video

Everyone can work through and make money doing so.

The onus is on the industry. To be successful in 3 years :

Q&A

You need a team who are passionate about the project. You need someone to answer all the difficult questions and that’s the client. Otherwise the team will interpret it.

People think they know what FM is but the reality is much harder.

Asset info collected a year before to tender the project.

Capex driven.

Rent and yield drive everything.

Cost of carbon might be an opportunity.

Improve the cost of of carbon offsetting by whole lifecycle costs and recycling.

Occupiers do not always want to engage staff due to fear of what might arise.

4 or 5 years of projects to collect comparison data before BIM will sway investors/banks.

BIM exposes bad behaviours.

It’s about better outcomes.

Designers and contractors are not yet turning BIM into sound commercial reality for clients. Still open.

Positive feedback on the BIM for clients task group.

Could we make the difference now? There is hope.

Concerns that the BIM objectives will vanish with a change in government.

The challenge is in the supply of skills.

In bad times innovation rises. Revert to type in the good times.

Don’t worry about level 3 get on and crack level 1 and 2.

Building parts don’t get chosen until a long way down the road. Three years in on a five year project.

If we could tender at scheme design stage then it would make early works more efficient and cost effective.

More value starting earlier but that requires a confident and strong leadership from the client.

Cobie has no value at this time. It’s a millstone. But it should become a background task. What are you going to do with it?

Why do you want info and what are you going to use it for?

Biggest frustration is how to capture data during design. Once simplified it can be moved on. Appointment and responsibility matrix.

There should be a recognition that cheapest cost is not the best value.

 

BIM show live opening address #bsl2015

David Philp

 

Rob Charlton stuck in Cyprus.

Key day with the launch of digital toolkit for the digital plan of work.

BIM taking off across th globe. More governments getting involved.

Not BIM but a digital environment.

About giving clients value.

Open shareable asset information.

Are we giving our clients value for money.

Level 2 is a staging post.

Level 3 and digital built Britain.

Embrace “disruptive innovation.

What does good look like?

Sensor rich intelligent assets

Step out of the inefficient and analogue box – cultural change.

 

Government departments are saving 12-20% but not BIM in isolation. GSL and lean procurement.

Understand clients and establish workflows

Expectations of driving value

5 years to mobilise level 2 BIM. 8-10 years to fully mobilise level 3.

Level 3 about integration of telemetry.

We need to engage and interest the youth of today to have an industry tomorrow.

Keynote address #bsl2015

10:35 AM – 11:05 AM

Keynote Address

Date: Day One, Location: Auditorium

• 
  Josh ValmanFounder & Managing Director – RPD International 
  How to make things happen. Started age 10 in robot wars.Looked for manufacturers to help in the UK. Googled factories in China. The geeks were hight level engineers in large companies. At 15/16 was managing $10m supply chain. An engine to solve problems without limits of purpose. The greatest innovations are not being pushed forward as people don’t know how to leverage them. Human being don’t like being told what to do.Empower people to own your mission for themselves. This will change behaviour. Insight from the inside promotes innovation. Align goal to promote behavoiur. Help people to achieve their goals and they sell to themselves.Make data entry passive. Look at context and make it as simple yes/no.Understand what you are trying to push and who you are pushing to. What are their goals. Culture of iteration and feedback to understand a scenario. What do they want, think and how do they work. Build a sensor network to track how things are being used. 
  
  People make things happen. 

The Quantifiable Self

This has interested me for a number of years now. Ever since a particular technology magazine editor talked about monitoring his sleep. He pointed out that there is a third of our life that we know nothing about. The thought intrigued me and I was hooked. I now use various smartphone apps and wearable devices that allow me to better understand what I am doing and likewise look for ways to improve or at least be aware of what I am doing with my life. An insight into the apps can be seen here:

http://quantifiedself.com/guide/

As a starter we should be aware that, for the majority of us, our lives are digital and we leave a trail within it. Quite often we do not see that data or even actively realise that it exists. This post from December 2012 on data collected about a single human being:

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/12/start/privacy-versus-facebook/page/2

Then you get the other extreme of people like Chris Dancy who tries to capture everything:

http://www.chrisdancy.com/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2588779/Is-connected-man-planet-Man-wired-700-devices-capture-single-existence.html

And a guide for the middle ground:

http://technori.com/2013/04/4281-the-beginners-guide-to-quantified-self-plus-a-list-of-the-best-personal-data-tools-out-there/

But how might this go beyond the individual to the workforce?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbersin/2014/06/25/quantified-self-meet-the-quantified-employee/2/

The data scientist:

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/514356/stephen-wolfram-on-personal-analytics/

Of course the big topic:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2014/06/qs-ethics-of-data

Personally I would happily share data that I consent to share as long as the data collected can be made available to me for my own use by the people collecting it and in a manner that I can use it as well. Something that I could feed into wolfram alpha analytics to inform myself and help me to make better decisions. At the moment I will keep on with my fitbit, endomondo, myfitnesspal, zeo sleep monitor (now retired), rescue time, manic time, evernote, twitter, facebook, outlook calendar etc etc……………. 🙂

 

 

Client Guides For Surveying

I have found these two sites invaluable to help with an exercise I am carrying out. The initial data piece of the BIM puzzle. If information is to be enriched from the start to the end to the start again then it makes sense to have a look at how to correctly specify your survey data at the start of the process. To make sure you can communicate correctly with surveyors whilst allowing them to do what they are best qualified to do.

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