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	On 11 June 2014, industry leaders gathered in Buro Happold’s beautiful, central-London event space to celebrate the second year of Designing Buildings Wiki. The event was hosted by Buro Happold’s Andrew Comer.		On 11 June 2014, industry leaders gathered in Buro Happold’s beautiful, central-London event space to celebrate the second year of Designing Buildings Wiki. The event was hosted by Buro Happold’s Andrew Comer.

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	Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed in the last 2,000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the basic techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps now, we are on the threshold of a new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years' time we might all own nano-machines that can create anything at the touch of a button. Scarcity will then be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the winners and losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.		Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed in the last 2,000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the basic techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps now, we are on the threshold of a new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years' time we might all own nano-machines that can create anything at the touch of a button. Scarcity will then be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the winners and losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.

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	[Image: Gregor Harvie]		[Image: Gregor Harvie]

−	In his presentation, Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, urged the industry to start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the ~~16<sup>th</sup>~~ century and have just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a licence allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it and improve it. He suggested that if the construction industry adopted a common standard for producing and publishing knowledge, it would make it easier to collaborate in its preparation, easier to find and share, and easier to carry forward from one project to another. He said that if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and search it by product, company, author, project and subject.	+	In his presentation, Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, urged the industry to start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16th century and have just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a licence allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it and improve it. He suggested that if the construction industry adopted a common standard for producing and publishing knowledge, it would make it easier to collaborate in its preparation, easier to find and share, and easier to carry forward from one project to another. He said that if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and search it by product, company, author, project and subject.

	Harvie revealed that 46% of the users of Designing Buildings Wiki are from outside the UK and that their distribution around the world is an exact mirror of the places that employ UK consultants. The more accessible, useful and useable we can make our knowledge to people overseas, the more likely it is they will come to us when they are awarding contracts.		Harvie revealed that 46% of the users of Designing Buildings Wiki are from outside the UK and that their distribution around the world is an exact mirror of the places that employ UK consultants. The more accessible, useful and useable we can make our knowledge to people overseas, the more likely it is they will come to us when they are awarding contracts.

−	The presentations were followed by a lively debate, and conversations continued over drinks. Thank you to everyone that contributed to making it such a memorable evening. You can find more photos on [https://storify.com/EEPaul/designing-buildings-wiki-marks-2nd-birthday Storify] and [https://www.flickr.com/photos/eepaul/sets/72157645144905694/ Flickr] and you can see the twitter feed that ran during the event at [https://twitter.com/hashtag/dbwikido?src=hash #dbwikido].~~<br/>~~	+	The presentations were followed by a lively debate, and conversations continued over drinks. Thank you to everyone that contributed to making it such a memorable evening. You can find more photos on [https://storify.com/EEPaul/designing-buildings-wiki-marks-2nd-birthday Storify] and [https://www.flickr.com/photos/eepaul/sets/72157645144905694/ Flickr] and you can see the twitter feed that ran during the event at [https://twitter.com/hashtag/dbwikido?src=hash #dbwikido].

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Designing Buildings at 11:28, 13 June 2014

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−	Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed in the last 2,000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the basic techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps now, we are on the threshold of a new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years time we might all own nano-machines that can create anything at the touch of a button. Scarcity will then be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the winners and losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.	+	Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed in the last 2,000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the basic techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps now, we are on the threshold of a new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years' time we might all own nano-machines that can create anything at the touch of a button. Scarcity will then be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the winners and losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.

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−	In his presentation, Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, urged the industry to start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and have just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a ~~license~~ allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it and improve it. He suggested that if the construction industry adopted a common standard for producing and publishing knowledge, it would make it easier to collaborate in its preparation, easier to find and share, and easier to carry forward from one project to another. He said that if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and search it by product, company, author, project and subject.	+	In his presentation, Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, urged the industry to start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and have just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a licence allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it and improve it. He suggested that if the construction industry adopted a common standard for producing and publishing knowledge, it would make it easier to collaborate in its preparation, easier to find and share, and easier to carry forward from one project to another. He said that if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and search it by product, company, author, project and subject.

	Harvie revealed that 46% of the users of Designing Buildings Wiki are from outside the UK and that their distribution around the world is an exact mirror of the places that employ UK consultants. The more accessible, useful and useable we can make our knowledge to people overseas, the more likely it is they will come to us when they are awarding contracts.		Harvie revealed that 46% of the users of Designing Buildings Wiki are from outside the UK and that their distribution around the world is an exact mirror of the places that employ UK consultants. The more accessible, useful and useable we can make our knowledge to people overseas, the more likely it is they will come to us when they are awarding contracts.
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Designing Buildings at 08:56, 13 June 2014

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−	Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested ~~that~~ long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed in the last 2,000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the basic techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps now, we are on the threshold of a new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years time we might all own nano-machines that can create anything at the touch of a button. Scarcity will then be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the ~~construction~~ industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the winners and losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.	+	Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed in the last 2,000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the basic techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps now, we are on the threshold of a new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years time we might all own nano-machines that can create anything at the touch of a button. Scarcity will then be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the winners and losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.

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−	Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, ~~proposed that~~ the industry ~~should~~ start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and ~~we’ve~~ just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a license allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it and improve it. He suggested that if the construction industry adopted a common standard for producing and publishing knowledge, it would make it easier to collaborate in its preparation, easier to find and share, and easier to carry it forward from one project to another. He said that if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and search it by product, company, author, project and subject.	+	In his presentation, Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, urged the industry to start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and have just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a license allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it and improve it. He suggested that if the construction industry adopted a common standard for producing and publishing knowledge, it would make it easier to collaborate in its preparation, easier to find and share, and easier to carry forward from one project to another. He said that if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and search it by product, company, author, project and subject.

	Harvie revealed that 46% of the users of Designing Buildings Wiki are from outside the UK and that their distribution around the world is an exact mirror of the places that employ UK consultants. The more accessible, useful and useable we can make our knowledge to people overseas, the more likely it is they will come to us when they are awarding contracts.		Harvie revealed that 46% of the users of Designing Buildings Wiki are from outside the UK and that their distribution around the world is an exact mirror of the places that employ UK consultants. The more accessible, useful and useable we can make our knowledge to people overseas, the more likely it is they will come to us when they are awarding contracts.

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−	On ~~June~~ 11, industry leaders gathered in Buro Happold’s beautiful, central-London event space to celebrate the second year of Designing Buildings Wiki. The event was hosted by Buro Happold’s Andrew Comer.	+	On 11 June 2014, industry leaders gathered in Buro Happold’s beautiful, central-London event space to celebrate the second year of Designing Buildings Wiki. The event was hosted by Buro Happold’s Andrew Comer.

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−	Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed ~~much~~ in last 2,000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the basic techniques ~~of construction~~ would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps now, we are on the threshold of a new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years time we might all own nano-machines that can create anything at the touch of a button. Scarcity will then be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the construction industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the ~~new~~ winners and losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.	+	Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested that long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed in the last 2,000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the basic techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps now, we are on the threshold of a new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years time we might all own nano-machines that can create anything at the touch of a button. Scarcity will then be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the construction industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the winners and losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.

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−	Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, proposed that the industry should start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and we’ve just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a license allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it and improve it. He suggested that if ~~we adopt~~ a common standard for producing and publishing ~~our~~ knowledge, it ~~will~~ make it easier ~~for the whole industry to find and share knowledge,~~ to collaborate in its preparation and to carry it forward from one project to another. He said that if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and search it by product, company, author, project and subject.	+	Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, proposed that the industry should start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and we’ve just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a license allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it and improve it. He suggested that if the construction industry adopted a common standard for producing and publishing knowledge, it would make it easier to collaborate in its preparation, easier to find and share, and easier to carry it forward from one project to another. He said that if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and search it by product, company, author, project and subject.

−	Harvie revealed that 46% of the users of Designing Buildings Wiki are from outside the UK and that their distribution around the world is an exact mirror of the places that employ UK consultants. The more accessible, useful and useable we can make our knowledge to people overseas, the more likely it is ~~that~~ they will come to us when they are awarding contracts.	+	Harvie revealed that 46% of the users of Designing Buildings Wiki are from outside the UK and that their distribution around the world is an exact mirror of the places that employ UK consultants. The more accessible, useful and useable we can make our knowledge to people overseas, the more likely it is they will come to us when they are awarding contracts.

−	The presentations were followed by a lively debate, and conversations continued over drinks. Thank you to everyone that contributed to making it such a memorable evening. You can find more photos on [https://storify.com/EEPaul/designing-buildings-wiki-marks-2nd-birthday Storify] and [https://www.flickr.com/photos/eepaul/sets/72157645144905694/ Flickr] and you can see the twitter feed that ran during the ~~evening~~ at [https://twitter.com/hashtag/dbwikido?src=hash #dbwikido]. <br/>	+	The presentations were followed by a lively debate, and conversations continued over drinks. Thank you to everyone that contributed to making it such a memorable evening. You can find more photos on [https://storify.com/EEPaul/designing-buildings-wiki-marks-2nd-birthday Storify] and [https://www.flickr.com/photos/eepaul/sets/72157645144905694/ Flickr] and you can see the twitter feed that ran during the event at [https://twitter.com/hashtag/dbwikido?src=hash #dbwikido].<br/>

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Designing Buildings at 08:38, 13 June 2014

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−	Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed much in last ~~2000~~ years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the ~~essential processes and~~ techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps we are ~~at last~~ on the threshold of new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years time ~~it is possible~~ we ~~will~~ all own nano-machines that can create anything~~, with molecular accuracy,~~ at the touch of a button. ~~Anything~~ will then ~~be possible and scarcity will~~ be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the new winners and ~~who the~~ losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.	+	Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed much in last 2,000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the basic techniques of construction would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps now, we are on the threshold of a new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years time we might all own nano-machines that can create anything at the touch of a button. Scarcity will then be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the construction industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the new winners and losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.

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−	Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, ~~followed Julian with a presentation proposing~~ the industry should start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and we’ve just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a license allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it an improve it. If we ~~adopted~~ a common standard for producing and publishing our knowledge, it ~~would~~ make it easier for the whole industry to find and share knowledge, to collaborate in its preparation and to carry it forward from one project to another. He said if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and ~~then~~ search it by product, company, author, project and subject.	+	Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, proposed that the industry should start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and we’ve just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a license allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it and improve it. He suggested that if we adopt a common standard for producing and publishing our knowledge, it will make it easier for the whole industry to find and share knowledge, to collaborate in its preparation and to carry it forward from one project to another. He said that if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and search it by product, company, author, project and subject.

	Harvie revealed that 46% of the users of Designing Buildings Wiki are from outside the UK and that their distribution around the world is an exact mirror of the places that employ UK consultants. The more accessible, useful and useable we can make our knowledge to people overseas, the more likely it is that they will come to us when they are awarding contracts.		Harvie revealed that 46% of the users of Designing Buildings Wiki are from outside the UK and that their distribution around the world is an exact mirror of the places that employ UK consultants. The more accessible, useful and useable we can make our knowledge to people overseas, the more likely it is that they will come to us when they are awarding contracts.

−	The presentations were followed by a lively debate, and conversations continued over drinks. You can see the twitter feed that ran during the evening at [https://twitter.com/hashtag/dbwikido?src=hash #dbwikido]~~, giving an excellent summary of many of the points made~~.	+	The presentations were followed by a lively debate, and conversations continued over drinks. Thank you to everyone that contributed to making it such a memorable evening. You can find more photos on [https://storify.com/EEPaul/designing-buildings-wiki-marks-2nd-birthday Storify] and [https://www.flickr.com/photos/eepaul/sets/72157645144905694/ Flickr] and you can see the twitter feed that ran during the evening at [https://twitter.com/hashtag/dbwikido?src=hash #dbwikido]. <br/>

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Designing Buildings at 08:26, 13 June 2014

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−	[Andrew Comer, Julian Barwick and Gregor Harvie]	+	[Image: Andrew Comer, Julian Barwick and Gregor Harvie]

	Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed much in last 2000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the essential processes and techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps we are at last on the threshold of new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years time it is possible we will all own nano-machines that can create anything, with molecular accuracy, at the touch of a button. Anything will then be possible and scarcity will be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the new winners and who the losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.		Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed much in last 2000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the essential processes and techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps we are at last on the threshold of new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years time it is possible we will all own nano-machines that can create anything, with molecular accuracy, at the touch of a button. Anything will then be possible and scarcity will be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the new winners and who the losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.
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	Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, followed Julian with a presentation proposing the industry should start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and we’ve just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a license allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it an improve it. If we adopted a common standard for producing and publishing our knowledge, it would make it easier for the whole industry to find and share knowledge, to collaborate in its preparation and to carry it forward from one project to another. He said if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and then search it by product, company, author, project and subject.		Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, followed Julian with a presentation proposing the industry should start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and we’ve just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a license allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it an improve it. If we adopted a common standard for producing and publishing our knowledge, it would make it easier for the whole industry to find and share knowledge, to collaborate in its preparation and to carry it forward from one project to another. He said if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and then search it by product, company, author, project and subject.
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−	[Paul Fletcher asking a question]	+	[Image: Paul Fletcher asking a question]

	Thank you to everyone that attended and contributed to making it such a memorable evening.		Thank you to everyone that attended and contributed to making it such a memorable evening.

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−		+	On June 11, industry leaders gathered in Buro Happold’s beautiful, central-London event space to celebrate the second year of Designing Buildings Wiki. The event was hosted by Buro Happold’s Andrew Comer.
−	On June 11, industry leaders gathered in Buro Happold’s beautiful, central-London event space to celebrate the second year of Designing Buildings Wiki. The event was hosted by Buro Happold’s Andrew Comer ~~(left below)~~.	+

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−	Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities ~~(middle above)~~, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed much in last 2000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the essential processes and techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps we are at last on the threshold of new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years time it is possible we will all own nano-machines that can create anything, with molecular accuracy, at the touch of a button. Anything will then be possible and scarcity will be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the new winners and who the losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.	+	[Andrew Comer, Julian Barwick and Gregor Harvie]
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		+	Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed much in last 2000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the essential processes and techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps we are at last on the threshold of new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years time it is possible we will all own nano-machines that can create anything, with molecular accuracy, at the touch of a button. Anything will then be possible and scarcity will be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the new winners and who the losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.

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		+	[Gregor Harvie]

	Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, followed Julian with a presentation proposing the industry should start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and we’ve just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a license allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it an improve it. If we adopted a common standard for producing and publishing our knowledge, it would make it easier for the whole industry to find and share knowledge, to collaborate in its preparation and to carry it forward from one project to another. He said if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and then search it by product, company, author, project and subject.		Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, followed Julian with a presentation proposing the industry should start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and we’ve just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a license allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it an improve it. If we adopted a common standard for producing and publishing our knowledge, it would make it easier for the whole industry to find and share knowledge, to collaborate in its preparation and to carry it forward from one project to another. He said if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and then search it by product, company, author, project and subject.
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	Thank you to everyone that attended and contributed to making it such a memorable evening.		Thank you to everyone that attended and contributed to making it such a memorable evening.
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Designing Buildings at 08:23, 13 June 2014

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−	On June 11, industry leaders gathered in Buro Happold’s beautiful, central-London event space to celebrate the second year of Designing Buildings Wiki. The event was hosted by Buro Happold’s Andrew Comer.	+	On June 11, industry leaders gathered in Buro Happold’s beautiful, central-London event space to celebrate the second year of Designing Buildings Wiki. The event was hosted by Buro Happold’s Andrew Comer (left below).

−	Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed much in last 2000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the essential processes and techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps we are at last on the threshold of new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years time it is possible we will all own nano-machines that can create anything, with molecular accuracy, at the touch of a button. Anything will then be possible and scarcity will be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the new winners and who the losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.	+	[[File:14404035241 478972c639 o 540.jpg\|RTENOTITLE]]<br/>

−	[[File:14406277594 926ffa2898 o 540.jpg]]	+	Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities (middle above), kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed much in last 2000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the essential processes and techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps we are at last on the threshold of new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years time it is possible we will all own nano-machines that can create anything, with molecular accuracy, at the touch of a button. Anything will then be possible and scarcity will be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the new winners and who the losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.
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	Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, followed Julian with a presentation proposing the industry should start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and we’ve just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a license allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it an improve it. If we adopted a common standard for producing and publishing our knowledge, it would make it easier for the whole industry to find and share knowledge, to collaborate in its preparation and to carry it forward from one project to another. He said if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and then search it by product, company, author, project and subject.		Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, followed Julian with a presentation proposing the industry should start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and we’ve just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a license allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it an improve it. If we adopted a common standard for producing and publishing our knowledge, it would make it easier for the whole industry to find and share knowledge, to collaborate in its preparation and to carry it forward from one project to another. He said if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and then search it by product, company, author, project and subject.
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	The presentations were followed by a lively debate, and conversations continued over drinks. You can see the twitter feed that ran during the evening at [https://twitter.com/hashtag/dbwikido?src=hash #dbwikido], giving an excellent summary of many of the points made.		The presentations were followed by a lively debate, and conversations continued over drinks. You can see the twitter feed that ran during the evening at [https://twitter.com/hashtag/dbwikido?src=hash #dbwikido], giving an excellent summary of many of the points made.

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	Thank you to everyone that attended and contributed to making it such a memorable evening.		Thank you to everyone that attended and contributed to making it such a memorable evening.
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Designing Buildings at 08:21, 13 June 2014

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	On June 11, industry leaders gathered in Buro Happold’s beautiful, central-London event space to celebrate the second year of Designing Buildings Wiki. The event was hosted by Buro Happold’s Andrew Comer.		On June 11, industry leaders gathered in Buro Happold’s beautiful, central-London event space to celebrate the second year of Designing Buildings Wiki. The event was hosted by Buro Happold’s Andrew Comer.

	Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed much in last 2000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the essential processes and techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps we are at last on the threshold of new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years time it is possible we will all own nano-machines that can create anything, with molecular accuracy, at the touch of a button. Anything will then be possible and scarcity will be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the new winners and who the losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.		Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed much in last 2000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the essential processes and techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps we are at last on the threshold of new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years time it is possible we will all own nano-machines that can create anything, with molecular accuracy, at the touch of a button. Anything will then be possible and scarcity will be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the new winners and who the losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.
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		+	[[File:14406277594 926ffa2898 o 540.jpg]]

	Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, followed Julian with a presentation proposing the industry should start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and we’ve just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a license allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it an improve it. If we adopted a common standard for producing and publishing our knowledge, it would make it easier for the whole industry to find and share knowledge, to collaborate in its preparation and to carry it forward from one project to another. He said if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and then search it by product, company, author, project and subject.		Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, followed Julian with a presentation proposing the industry should start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and we’ve just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a license allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it an improve it. If we adopted a common standard for producing and publishing our knowledge, it would make it easier for the whole industry to find and share knowledge, to collaborate in its preparation and to carry it forward from one project to another. He said if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and then search it by product, company, author, project and subject.
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	The presentations were followed by a lively debate, and conversations continued over drinks. You can see the twitter feed that ran during the evening at [https://twitter.com/hashtag/dbwikido?src=hash #dbwikido], giving an excellent summary of many of the points made.		The presentations were followed by a lively debate, and conversations continued over drinks. You can see the twitter feed that ran during the evening at [https://twitter.com/hashtag/dbwikido?src=hash #dbwikido], giving an excellent summary of many of the points made.
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	Thank you to everyone that attended and contributed to making it such a memorable evening.		Thank you to everyone that attended and contributed to making it such a memorable evening.
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Designing Buildings at 12:50, 12 June 2014

2014-06-12T12:50:09Z

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	On June 11, industry leaders gathered in Buro Happold’s beautiful, central-London event space to celebrate the second year of Designing Buildings Wiki. The event was hosted by Buro Happold’s Andrew Comer.		On June 11, industry leaders gathered in Buro Happold’s beautiful, central-London event space to celebrate the second year of Designing Buildings Wiki. The event was hosted by Buro Happold’s Andrew Comer.

−	Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed much in last 2000 years. We have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, ~~but~~ the ~~basic~~ processes and techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. ~~Perhaps though,~~ we are at last on the threshold of new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 ~~yearstime~~ it is possible we will all own nano-machines that can create anything, with molecular accuracy at the touch of a button. Anything will then be possible, and scarcity will be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge ~~from this disruption~~ as the winners and who the losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.	+	Julian Barwick, Executive Director at Development Securities, kicked things off with a presentation in which he suggested long-awaited change might be about to hit the construction industry. Julian pointed out that construction hasn’t really progressed much in last 2000 years. Whilst we have computers now, and steel, so we can build faster and more accurately, the essential processes and techniques would be familiar to a Roman engineer. But perhaps we are at last on the threshold of new world in which radical technologies disrupt the status quo. Moves to automate construction are gathering pace, and in 50 years time it is possible we will all own nano-machines that can create anything, with molecular accuracy, at the touch of a button. Anything will then be possible and scarcity will be a thing of the past. What impact will this have on the established order? How will abundance and automation change the structure of the industry? How will rapid innovation affect our need for information? Who will emerge as the new winners and who the losers? Perhaps Roman engineers will be less comfortable in the world of 2064.

−	Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, followed Julian with a presentation proposing ~~that~~ the industry ~~needs to~~ start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and we’ve just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a license allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it an improve it. If we adopted a common standard for producing and publishing our knowledge, it would make it easier for the whole industry to find and share knowledge, to collaborate in its preparation and to carry if forward from one project to another. He said if the industry was to do just one thing – it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and then search it by product, company, author, project and subject.	+	Gregor Harvie, co-founder of Designing Buildings Wiki, followed Julian with a presentation proposing the industry should start exploiting the potential of digital media and stop creating ‘glossy’ pdf’s with copyright symbols on them as if we’re in the 16<sup>th</sup> century and we’ve just published a book. We should be creating knowledge in an open format that allows it to be published anywhere and everywhere, so that as many people as possible can find it. We should make our knowledge as easy to use as possible; easy to understand, and with a license allowing people to share it, reproduce it, copy it an improve it. If we adopted a common standard for producing and publishing our knowledge, it would make it easier for the whole industry to find and share knowledge, to collaborate in its preparation and to carry it forward from one project to another. He said if the industry was to do just one thing, it should give every document it produces a unique identification number. At a stroke we would then be able to index the entirety of construction industry knowledge and then search it by product, company, author, project and subject.

	Harvie revealed that 46% of the users of Designing Buildings Wiki are from outside the UK and that their distribution around the world is an exact mirror of the places that employ UK consultants. The more accessible, useful and useable we can make our knowledge to people overseas, the more likely it is that they will come to us when they are awarding contracts.		Harvie revealed that 46% of the users of Designing Buildings Wiki are from outside the UK and that their distribution around the world is an exact mirror of the places that employ UK consultants. The more accessible, useful and useable we can make our knowledge to people overseas, the more likely it is that they will come to us when they are awarding contracts.

−	The presentations were followed by a lively debate, and conversations continued over drinks. You can see the twitter feed that ran during the evening at #dbwikido, giving an excellent summary of many of the points made.	+	The presentations were followed by a lively debate, and conversations continued over drinks. You can see the twitter feed that ran during the evening at [https://twitter.com/hashtag/dbwikido?src=hash #dbwikido], giving an excellent summary of many of the points made.

−	Thank you to everyone that attended ~~the event~~ and contributed to making it such a memorable evening.	+	Thank you to everyone that attended and contributed to making it such a memorable evening.

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