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What I’ve been reading about:
Construction now officially in recession - 24/10/2008 - Contract Journal - It's official. Deep joy.
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What I’ve been reading about:
Building a Sustainable Design Community | Fast Company - "The Designers Accord is neither a governing body like the American Institute of Graphic Arts (the largest industry organization) nor a third-party certification standard like LEED. It is an agreement to reroute design, manufacturing, and even the economy toward a livable ecological [...]
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What I’ve been reading about:
AIArchitect This Week | The 10:20:30 Rule - "Fire your 10 percent worst clients each year. Replace the bottom 20 percent and reward the top 20 percent of your employees and consultants. Focus on the 30 percent most and least successful projects."
Electric heating - the future?
Well, I never thought I’d write that as a blog title! I’m not a fan of electric heating and haven’t been since before I did some investigation into Part L back in 2002.
However, as I was browsing through my copy of h&v news this week I came across an article by Kelly Butler of TEHVA, [...]
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What I’ve been reading about:
Diocese of London - Regeneration map - "Over the past 12 months, the Diocese of London and Groundwork have been working to map the major areas of regeneration across the capital. This has involved bringing together data created by national, regional and local bodies to create a map covering the whole [...]
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What I’ve been reading about:
Degree Days for energy management - via Melanie Thomson's Get Sust: Russell Layberry of the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, has been reviewing UK degree day data and has developed a dataset that is more accurate than traditional sources (which are calculated from hourly Met Office data [...]
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What I’ve been reading about:
Degree Days for energy management - via Melanie Thomson's Get Sust: Russell Layberry of the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment, has been reviewing UK degree day data and has developed a dataset that is more accurate than traditional sources (which are calculated from hourly Met Office data [...]
Heuristics, theories and models
Clearing out some MBA stuff and keep coming across snippets regarding models, heuristics and concepts which I want to keep for future reference. Here are some:
theories are stable explanations for recurring phenomena
theorising is “sense making”
“there is nothing so practical as good theory”
3 stages to theorising:
concepts (define)
conceptual framework (description of connections)
theory
And some stuff on cognitive [...]
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What I’ve been reading about:
CCK08: Two Conversations with Gen Millennium, and Some Questions on Learning and Knowledge Failures - Generational differences in the workplace and KM - another great article from Dave Pollard: "But in other respects this is terrible news. Aside from the wasted content effort, this means that most young people will learn [...]
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What I’ve been reading about:
Confluence - Enterprise Wiki Software - "Confluence is a simple, practical web application that makes it easy for you and your teammates to collaborate and manage knowledge."
Instiki - "Instiki is a basic wiki clone so pretty and easy to set up, you’ll wonder if it’s really a wiki. Instiki may not [...]
