Every now and again you might happen across an idea. If you're like me the idea's generally not yours, and you're thinking that's so simple why didn't I rethink of that. I have come to the conclusion that largely it is how our minds have been condition...

BuildingDesignExpert Podcast - LABC pt.2 - So LABC, and particularly our interviewee Doug Basen, are the first to admit that the 'dark days' pre 1984 were not not the best at promoting their organisation as providing a service of which they were proud.

BuildingDesignExpert Podcast - LABC 1 Your time in the construction industry will determine what iteration of Building Control you may have encountered. Prior to the 1984 Building Act there was the largely adversarial system, where Building Control ofte

BuildingDesignExpert Podcast – BIM and Passivhaus 2 Passivhaus has been around for so long now, it can pretty much take care of itself - in suitably trained hands that is. However, BIM, we discover, is a process that can add value to any design mode.

BuildingDesignExpert Podcast - BIM and Passivhaus 1 We can go back 22 years to find the birth of Passivhaus, and depending upon which expert you speak to, a good many more to discover the grass roots that has blossomed into today's pursuit of the holy g

The construction industry taslks incessantly about 'doing BIM', but BIM is as much a mindset change, as a software upgrade. To get different and improved results we must all learn a modified approach to the production and management of our information. I

Building Information Modelling, or BIM as it has become so popularly known, is not new; although the BIM acronymn has been popularised by a well known CAD software industry giant, and so has become the default reference for this hugely developing arm of t

BuildingDesignExpert Podcast - Grande Designs Live 2013 I was pleased to be invited to be part of the 'Ask an Expert' stand at Grand Designs Live. It was rewarding to assist members oif the public who are understandably not versed in the intricacies of bu