Data is becoming ever more integral to our daily lives. There isn’t much we do now where someone isn’t interested in monitoring our behaviour, trying to understand it and adapting … Continue reading “Is data the new currency?”
A key value of Constructing Excellence and G4C is collaboration. Collaboration is possible only when there is transparency and inclusion, when thoughts, developments and proposed actions are openly discussed and … Continue reading “G4C Renewed”
Open data has been described by Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the www protocol) as the new frontier of the Internet. We find ourselves today in respect to open data … Continue reading “You may say I am an Open Data dreamer”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnlPfg2SV_U Internet has changed our life. Communication, education, shopping, business etc. What about energy? Via internet, it is possible to access our energy account information, we can monitor our energy … Continue reading “Open Data for Energy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6MUpv8g7AI We need a good Planning system to face the effects of global change. Population increase, availability of natural resources combined with lack of political stability will impose greater pressure … Continue reading “Open Data for Planning”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-wBItE-ayo Next to food and clothing, the Declaration of Human Rights lists housing as the third fundamental need for any human being. The current supply of housing in the UK … Continue reading “Open Data for Housing”
During the first episode of our video interview series we asked Prof Tim Stonor, director at Space Syntax and Dr Stuart Chalmers, Data Scientist at BRE, about their opinion regarding … Continue reading “Open Data in Construction, an introduction”
The construction industry has got a tricky job to do. Whilst other industries can rely on the accuracy of computers, laboratories or factories to deliver their products, we produce outdoors. … Continue reading “Open data as innovation in the construction industry”
With the vast majority of records now stored electronically, e-analytics has become essential because there are no longer ‘paper trails’ in the traditional sense. This combined with the dramatic increases … Continue reading “Analyse this”
I was reading the other day that according to IBM, ninety per cent of the world’s data has been produced in just the past two years. It seems to me … Continue reading “Make sense of it all”
