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I am a major fan of the BE2Camp unconference theme, its just a very cool and simple way to meet and listern to very good presentations, the one I attended in Birmingham was just very good, I’m only sorry I did not get chance to travel to London to the recent event there, but this new Ecocamp looks to be just the ticket. I certainly have mine booked and will be there.

Be2camp member Carmen Boscolo is organising EcoCamp in Coventry, UK, on Saturday 12 December and its sustainability theme may well appeal to many Be2camp people, including some of those who attended Be2camp Brum in August. We are working in partnership with EcoCamp to promote the event, and you can register to attend at www.ecocamp.ning.com.

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I always take a photo of any job I have to survey to measure just how many bricks there are the the set measure. in this case it was 6 courses to 420mm so any photo I have taken of the exterior, I can get a pretty good idea of heights of window cills, what ever, even eaves heights.

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I recently did a survey of an old pub, and saw this detail, although its a classic corbled detail, the brickwork under the old roof truss, is not really doing anything, it’s there for show, the beam if you look carefully, sits on the main exterior wall, which is actually new brickwork, if fact the complete barn is new, made to look old, more photos of the pub on my flickr account

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remember my blog about 3D printing of a staircase to 1/4 inch scale with a Makerbot, well owenscenic has produced a little video of it actually working,. This is certainly worth checking, out. As he says its a little rought, but perhaps with time it will get up to presentation quality, but the best part is that its created with Vectorworks. Have a look at the other videos re making and testing the makerbot.

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I am a major fan of Chris Brogan and read most of what he sends out, on an almost daily basis, and when I saw this little video on his Trust Agent Book, I thought that it was worth spreading about, its a good basis for developing any business plan, I have seen all kinds of people over the last 40 years in business, and can tell you straight away I never liked working for office bullies, who thought that making life hard was the right way, I often left that job quicker than I might have

It’s not about being bullish, or hard, it’s just about doing to others as you would wish them do to you, kinda thing, have a look at the video, I liked it, I have not yet read his book, but will soon enough.

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I just thought that this little video was, well kinda cool, I can see many flaws in the technology, but put that aside, its a neat little gizmo……..

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This  diploma thesis in architecture., of a project  located in Ningbo, China, a city with over 5.5 milion inhabitants. Because of its bioclimatic design (inspired by the work of dr. Ken Yeang), it consumes a minimum of energy and is very sustainable and cost efficient. The project is modelled and animated with 3ds max 2009. Also the music is composed by me, produced with Reason 4.0. Concept, design, modelling, animation, music, editing by me, Przemyslaw Duda.

That the official blurb from the youtube site, my view, nice animation, that shows of a really nice design, I like the interior and space, but the music,,,,,,, I turned that down and just watched for 5 mins, nice. The CPD could be any one of a number of avenues, I made notes on the design, could I produce working drawings from this, what questions should I be asking, services, comes to mind, waste disposal,frame design, sun orientation, shading, cooling effect of the central core, will this produce currents of moving air, ,,,, I go on,,, still nice film and I enjoyed watching it.

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I don’t know whether I have a problem with this technology or not, do I want a wall that’s in essence a huge great television, The Sensacell system is a unique combination of energy efficient LED lighting technology and advanced touchless proximity sensors engineered for elegant integration with architecture. Sensacell’s compatibility with a broad range of architectural materials enables unlimited application possibilities; the sensors can detect persons and objects straight through surface materials allowing everyday surfaces to become dynamically interactive. I can see the benefits, and as the technology become more settled, woooo, tv playing in one corner, skype in the other and as I approach the wall it changes, ,,,, I am still looking at this but the technology is certainly interesting, worth any CPD, yes, this will not go away, it’s there, can we use it, probably, so learn all you can about it, I will, before I make a decision. Just how much energy does it take !and who controls the wall,,,,,,,  sustainable its not,,,,,,oh just watch.

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Whilst we were talking at the Local authority planning meet last night, one of the team mentioned the Planning Jungle site as a useful web site for permitted development notes. Its more than that, its a compendium of notes, case history and a really good presentation on what exactly Permitted Development is.

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Tom Greggs, of the Convert to lines podcast for Vectorworks users in Seattle, has published an updated podcast on the site, this months content:

In this issue:
• What’s up with our meeting schedule?
• NNA comes to Seattle to demo V. 2010
• Why Unified View in V. 2010 is or isn’t important
• Get to know Steve S.
• Tag Ends
• Upgrading: What’s in it for me?

Very kind of Tom to give the Konstrukshon weblog a mention

Tom  mention an NNA video describing Unified View, its a Quicktime video, I’// try to embed below. it seems to work, but little or no control, I had to double click to get it going. so you might like to link with the above.

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