I was a little bit concerned when I entered this large conference room for my first Ecobuild session this afternoon and there were only 10 people. It got worse. Just as we were supposed to start a staff member announced that the session was cancelled. At least there were not a LOT of disappointed people.
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I am going to be attending the National Institute of Building Sciences 2009 Annual meeting beginning early tomorrow morning. One of the meetings that is co-located with this event is the buildingSMART alliance International Conference. I will be interviewing Deke Smith, the Executive Director of the US chapter on Wednesday. If you have any questions [...]

Since we were on the subject in the last post, I wanted to highlight this important announcement from Autodesk and Trimble. I believe this important because it demonstrates to me that two of the key players, worldwide in their respective industries, are at the very least addessing the issues that were identified by Randy Noland in the [...]

Autodesk University opens today with a series of organizational meetings. The real event begins in earnest tomorrow. I was hoping to attend, but Matt Ball from V1 is going to be there and we are trying to be efficient about travel. Matt will be in a press conference with Carl Bass on Wednesday. I provided [...]

I can’ t think of a better place to start this journey than with this report – Innovating for Better Buildings. Developed by two of the leading organizations in this arena – Nth Power and Fraunhofer USA, the authors are Brian Walsh, Bryan Urban and Sebastian Herkel.