The Be2Awards - Best blog nomination

Absolutely delighted to make the shortlist for the Best sustainability or built environment blog for the upcoming Be2Awards. The Be2Awards are the world's only awards focused on social media in the built environment. Voting closes at midnight 23 September 2013.

This blog!

If you are new to this blog - as an introduction, a selection of posts that may be of interest from the last 7 or 8 months are below:

• RIBA Plan of Work 2013 is now live - an overview of the new plan of work from the RIBA (and accompanying website) that was launched in June this year
• 2012 - A year of BIM - 2012 was the *year-of-BIM* - check out a short overview of many of the things that happened
• The CIC Growth through BIM report - My review of the BIS/CIC report that had been authored by Richard Saxon CBE (the UK Government BIM Ambassador for Growth).
• Singapore 48 hour BIM challenge - Late, late night blog post with some video footage of prototype IFC software we were writing as part of this international BIM competition.
• BIM and LOD - An attempt to pull together some of the information and view points on BIM and level of detail/development/information following a week of discussions on various social media channels.

And occasionally a light-hearted post or two:

• Construction Fantasy Football League - A call to join the Twitter UK construction fantasy football league - a competition I enter each year and lose each year.
• Star Wars Figures - If you do BIM and Social Media - Star Wars banter comes naturally.
• Specialist Signage Objects - Special April 1st blog post

I'm in London for the 2-3 days around the award ceremony, so I very much hope to get along on the night and have one or two drinks. The bad news unfortunately is that the competition is very, very strong. But still - nice to get nominated.

The shortlist

Finally, delighted with the selected quotes from a couple of the people who nominated me - a big thanks to whoever they were for the kind words:

Nominator - "often one of the first places I will now go to for information on BIM".

Seconder - "the very best kind of BIM evangelist – one who is as knowledgeable and enthusiastic about his subject as he is practical about its applications".

Award trophy

Voting is at the website below:
- http://www.be2awards.com/2013-be2awards/best-sustainability-blog/

Other categories sees NBS receive two nominations and thinkBIM (the Leeds BIM conference series I help chair) get one...

1. Best AEC PR/marketing campaign
http://www.be2awards.com/2013-be2awards/best-aec-pr-marketing-campaign/
Check out:

• Our official twitter page - https://twitter.com/TheNBS
• An example of our live blogging - http://www.thenbs.com/blogs/bim/
• One of our many linkedin groups - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4103410

So a big well done to Clare and Ellie for their work over the last year in this area!

2. Best education/learning or charity project
http://www.be2awards.com/2013-be2awards/copy-of-best-education-and-lea/

Our free-to-use NBS TV service has been nominated here. To watch hundreds of free construction industry videos online please see:
- http://www.thenbs.com/nbsTV/

 

3. Best virtual or hybrid event
http://www.be2awards.com/2013-be2awards/best-virtual-or-hybrid-event/

Well done to ThinkBIM for their nomination here - http://ckehub.org/thinkbim

To see more on what a ThinkBIM event is like - see some of my blog posts from past events...

• http://constructioncode.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/thinkbim-conference-operation-and.html
• http://constructioncode.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/thinkbim-beyond-design-facility.html
• http://constructioncode.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/thinkbim-openbim-conference.html
• http://constructioncode.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/think-bim-2012-design-and-pre.html