This document introduces the Be2camp conference on using Web 2.0 technologies in the built environment sector. It notes that while construction has traditionally been conservative and technophobic, it has adopted technologies like CAD and websites. It argues the sector is information-intensive but less collaborative in sharing information. Web 2.0 tools could help address these issues and make the sector more sustainable by enabling open communication, collaboration and reducing travel. The conference aims to engage participants in discussing how to embrace Web 2.0 approaches to sustainability issues.

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4. Why Web 2.0 and the Built Environment?
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• “Construction is technophobic”
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• Mobile telecommunications

5. Why Web 2.0 and the Built Environment?
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• “Construction is conservative”
– Adopts tried and trusted mainstream technologies
(eg: CAD, websites, email, project extranets)
– Often very cost-conscious
– Often very contractual

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• Face-to-face • Extranets
• Written word • Web-conferencing applications
• Hand drawings • File-sharing (P2P)
• Telephone • Instant messaging BIM
• Telegram
• Discussion forums
• Telex
• Home pages (iGoogle)
• Fax
• Wikis
• CAD
• Blogs Web 2.0
• Email
• Groupware (eg: Lotus Notes) • RSS
• File transfer protocol (FTP) • Social networking
• Websites • Social search, tagging, sharing
• Intranets, enterprise portals • Mashups: Mapping, time-lines, etc
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7. Why Web 2.0 and the Built Environment?
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• “Construction is information-intensive”
– “information overload”
– paper-intensive

8. Why Web 2.0 and the Built Environment?
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• “Construction is not collaborative”
– increasingly sophisticated at managing internal
information …
– … but less good at sharing/re-using information with
other project team members …
– … and/or with the ultimate owner/operator/occupier
– … and/or other stakeholders

9. Why Web 2.0 and the Built Environment?
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• “Construction is often adversarial”

10. Why Web 2.0 and the Built Environment?
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• “Construction is not very ‘green’”
– “… it is only in the last 10 years or so that the construction
industry has really started to consider its environmental
impacts.”
– Opportunities for ICT to help
• ‘intelligent buildings’ (ie: IT-enabled BMS)
• Modelling and assessment tools
• performance indicators
• automating manual processes (eg: CAD, logistics, tendering, etc)
• improving communications
• reducing travel, transport

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19. Web 2.0 and the Built Environment
10.15 keynotes
11.00 coffee
11.30 workshop streams
13.00 lunch interval
13.45 Second Life
14.00 SL workshop and other stream(s)
15.30 coffee
16.00 final workshop streams
17.00 close - drinks
17.30 Pecha Kucha starts
19.30 Pecha Kucha finishes – adjourn to pub!