Category: Smart Construction
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How can social media support BIM – A video series
Social Strategist Su Butcher explains in this video series how social media can support BIM. These presentations come for the UK, but I think that the ideas that Su presents are universally applicable. Why Social Media for AEC? How Can Social Media Support BIM Knowledge Sharing? How Can Social Media Support BIM Workflows? How Can Social…
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Knee Pads That You Love to Wear – Interview with Joe Johnson
This is an interview with Joe Johnson, a young entrepreneur and developer of memory foam knee pads. Knee pads are essential to many construction workers, but they are not always comfortable. Joe’s company, Total Comfort Medical, offers an alternative that you should definitely check out. Who are you? My name is Joe Johnson. I am…
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Life Cycle Assessment with One Click – Interview with Ryan Zizzo
Life cycle assessment of buildings and infrastructure using smart tools and BIM is the theme of my interview with Ryan Zizzo. Ryan is the International Sales Manager at Bionova, a leading developer of sustainability metrics solutions, specializing in web-based, user friendly life cycle assessment (LCA). In this podcast, he will briefly describe life cycle assessment and…
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Four Innovative AEC Mobile Apps
During the last years, smartphones have become important tools also for professionals within the AEC industry. The boom in the mobile application designing industry has led to improved quality over the past couple of years. For example, cloud-based project management tools help to save valuable time and resources by streamlining field communication and providing shared resources.…
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Easy-to-digest Research Results for the Construction Industry
Communication between researchers or academics and construction industry practitioners is not always easy. We helped our client, RYM, communicate research results from two research programs, each with a budget of over 20 million euros. RYM is a public–private partnership aiming to speed up innovation processes in the construction and real estate industries in Finland. Its…
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BIM Requirements for Infrastructure Released in Finland
Built infrastructure clients, consultants, contractors, and software developers assembled yesterday to celebrate a milestone in Finnish BIM history. The release of InfraBIM requirements took place at Dipoli in Otaniemi. The development of the guidelines has been a cross-disciplinary venture. The resulting documents are to be used as general technical references and modeling guidelines during procurement and…
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Bringing Your Construction Site Up to Code
Figures from the 2013/2014 Health & Safety Executive report found that there were 133 worker deaths and 70 members of the public fatally injured during this period. Over half of these accidents occurred in three ways: falls from heights, contact with moving machinery, or being struck with a vehicle (railway-related incidents were excluded from the…
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State of IPD in Finland – Interview with Lauri Merikallio
I had the pleasure of meeting with Lauri Merikallio, Partner at Vison Alliance Partners, in Helsinki. During the interview Lauri explains how he got involved in Integrated Project Delivery, IPD, and how it’s been implemented in Finland. Lauri Merikallio has become thoroughly familiar with the LEAN philosophy and its application in projects and provision of services. One of the innovations…
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Megatrends Shaping Cities of the Future
I had the pleasure of attending the most prominent Finnish seminar on residential business last week. There were several interesting presentations on innovation and case studies of new ways of residential construction. Tuuli Kaskinen, CEO at Demos Effect, talked about megatrends pertaining to city living. Kaskinen started by showing a photo of the suburb of…
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Megatrends Shaping Cities of the Future
I had the pleasure of attending the most prominent Finnish seminar on residential business last week. There were several interesting presentations on innovation and case studies of new ways of residential construction. Tuuli Kaskinen, CEO at Demos Effect, talked about megatrends pertaining to city living. Kaskinen started by showing a photo of the suburb of…