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The
Small Firm Dilemma: How to
Keep Pace with Technology in
a Competitive Environment Firms in the 20-50 person range can’t
afford a chief information officer at $150,000 per year. But neither can
they afford to neglect the strategic importance of information technology
to stay competitive and grow their business. Consulting services and outsourcing
can fill the gaps at reasonable cost. more...
OSCRE: Open Standards Consortium for Real Estate was created
to facilitate coordination, standardization and collaboration
across the key stakeholders in the corporate real estate industry. The
role of Web-based technology as an enabler is paramount to this effort.
The need for a standard methodology and
language is fundamental for the corporate real estate ‘supply chain’ to
operate and communicate within today’s e-business environment.
more...
Connecting
the Dots: Understanding the Emerging Digital Building Process Don't
miss the AIA/TAP
conference in San Francisco, October 16-19. A shared building model,
which digitally captures all project information
and makes it available to the project team throughout the
lifecycle of a building, is widely seen as the Next Big Thing
in IT for design and construction. What does
it mean to the traditional relationships between architects, builders,
and owners? more...
GIS
for the People! Neighborhood Knowledge California Users
can map an area by drawing its boundaries online and can even upload
their own data into NKCA's mapping system. Community
groups and small businesses gain access to a wide array of public
information and the tools
to use it, helping to bridge the "digital divide." more...
Jonathan
Cohen writes in Architectural Record: Participatory
Design with the Internet, The Internet is maturing, and as
it does, so too are the ways that architects use it. more...
Get
the book:
Communication
and Design with the Internet
“This book is much more than a Web style guide; it is a treatise on a fundamental
problem of the building industry: poor communication.”
— Stephen Barnecut, Canadian Architect
Summer reading for literate techies: Where
Wizards Stay Up Late: Now that Admiral Poindexter
is
gone, we can remember that DARPA invented the Internet. Surprisingly, it's
a very exciting story.
The
Rise of the Network Society: The first volume of Manuel Castell's classic
trilogy
on
the
sociology
of
the
Information
Age.
Did you miss these issues?
...July issue
...June issue
...May issue
...April issue
prOSPa:
promoting off-site production applications
Manufacturing construction components off-site, like "chunking" in
the automotive industry, could dramatically improve quality without stifling
good design. more...
Web
Site Management: Keep it Fresh, Know Your Visitors
A Web site is not a short-term commitment. Maintaining your site, keeping
it current, and managing the information that comes back from visitors are all
part ofthe job.. more...
Coming attractions:
Jonathan Cohen speaks on mixed-use development at the California
APA Convention, Sept 28-Oct 1, 2003, more...
Jonathan Cohen speaks at
Build
Boston,
November 18-20, 2003 more...
The new master-builders: networked design/build organizations
also:
Participatory Design with the
Internet: The WTC Reconstruction
A|E|C SYSTEMS - Technology For
Design & Construction, Orlando, FL, February 17-19, 2004 more...
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