Here are one of the 'take with a grain of salt' pieces from InfoLink. According to an article submitted yesterday a "323-room Renaissance Bahrain Amwaj Islands Hotel is being constructed on a series of man-made islands" in the Kingdom of Bahrain, what piqued my interest was not so much the hotel itself but the construction managment process, employing a system and company named Aconex.
Even though it is busily attempting to sell a product, this article really highlights how information technology and modern communications are informing and modifying our construction techniques. Onilne data sharing has the potential to decrease construction time by making documents accesible from anywhere in the world and I am enthusiastic about the opportunites that it can create making collaborations between designers and builders global. However, I feel that a system which could assist global design and construction, whilst no-doubt commercially lucrative, should be open-source. I certainly hope that tools such as Aconex, which should help the world of design and construction flourish globally, are not restriced to those who can pay the undoubtedly exhorbitant fee to use it.
Have look at the Aconex website if you are so inclined: http://www.aconex.com/
The InfoLink article is a reproduction of an Aconex press release, the original can be found here.
Even though it is busily attempting to sell a product, this article really highlights how information technology and modern communications are informing and modifying our construction techniques. Onilne data sharing has the potential to decrease construction time by making documents accesible from anywhere in the world and I am enthusiastic about the opportunites that it can create making collaborations between designers and builders global. However, I feel that a system which could assist global design and construction, whilst no-doubt commercially lucrative, should be open-source. I certainly hope that tools such as Aconex, which should help the world of design and construction flourish globally, are not restriced to those who can pay the undoubtedly exhorbitant fee to use it.
Have look at the Aconex website if you are so inclined: http://www.aconex.com/
The InfoLink article is a reproduction of an Aconex press release, the original can be found here.
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