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Capturing AECBs Golden Nuggets and Guru Know-How
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Capturing AECBs Golden Nuggets and Guru Know-How

  • Promoted by Brian Murphy
    Green Building Encyclopaedia (GBE) proposal to
    Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB)
    Championed by Julia Bennett and Paul Bourgeois
  • This presentation:
  • Is available on http://.GreenBuildingEncyclopaedia.uk/
  • Page: …?P=12210 for PDF
  • I am building links from content into the relevant pages of the website to expand on the content if you wish to explore
  • AECB Knowledge Management
  • At Goldsmith College Conference
  • Talk of aging membership
  • And Potential loss of know-how
  • Need youth to carry the baton
  • GBE offers complimentary option

–Record what you know before its lost

–In an on-line encyclopaedia with datasets, equations, calculators, tools, library, case studies, etc.

  • AECB Forum Mining
  • An opportunity to extract the essence or golden nuggets of information
  • Filter out the chatter and repetition
  • Organise into encyclopaedic collection
  • Complement or reinforce AECB know-how:

–AECB standards, CLP, CLR, Passivhaus, etc.

  • Joined up linking of information
  • Access through intuitive interface

–GBE 2D or 3D Interface

  • Sheffield 2015
    AECB Conference
  • Made very welcome after a long absence
  • Presented this idea in the exhibition space display
  • Generated some interest
  • Julia and Paul said we should try to make it happen
  • Mentioned in Social Media

 

Other reason for this proposal:

  • AECB is a fountain of knowledge and expertise
  • We know it, but very few other people do
  • The AECB Forum helped to spread the word wider than membership (check-out the stats!)
  • CarbonLite training is converting others slowly (CLR too)
  • Passivhaus Plus is a new outlet to a wider audience

–Fran pleaded for more engagement

  • But there are millions that need to have AECB know-how
  • If we are to have any significant effect, we cannot do it alone
  • We need to share, more, faster, to those who can act on it
  • We must not hold back

–(no more not wanting to share what is our know-how)

 

  • Profits before People before Planet
  • Fiduciary Rules okay
  • (Legal obligation to make profits for shareholders)
  • GBE HERACEY™
    Healthy Environmental Resourceful Appropriate Competent Effective Yardstick
  • Profits before People before Planet
  • Fiduciary Rules okay
  • (Obligation to make profits for shareholders)

There are two parts to this proposal:

  • Extract the golden nuggets out of the AECB forum
  • Capture the know-how of the AECB guru before its lost forever

Plus two options or extensions:

  • Extract the essence out of the Magazine and turn it into a long term resource
  • Non-Guru Members know-how collected and organised

There are two complimentary parts being offered to build on:

  • Green Building Encyclopaedia (GBE)
  • GBE 2D/3D View an interface to GBE
  • underlying ambitions
  • Paul tells me that the committee

–and members?

  • Want to develop a level of professionalism?

–Or be more professional?

  • To enable fit with and assimilate into mainstream?
  • Conventional materials and construction performance is understood and taken for granted and is the default
  • Green is unknown and nothing is taken for granted and has to be proved each time
  • More research needs to be done or knowledge disseminated in the best way possible to be accessible to all when making everyday choices (ASBP similar aims)

Green Building Encyclopaedia

  • Site map
  • 60 items in this mind map
  • 275 Page groups in the site map so far
  • 1925 pages so far, 30,000 anticipated

This takes a lot of navigating, so a novel navigation method has been developed:

  • Neural Network Navigation
  • Neural networks
  • Human brains are clever
  • Some magic to be found here
  • Memories (Neurons) and connectivity
  • Clustered memories connected
  • Joined up Information (Neural networks)
  • Joined up remembering
  • Carole King
  • Tapestry
  • 1971
  • <45 years since you first played it
  • You remember every word
  • You know the next track before it plays
  • That’s the way the human brain works
  • Nuggets of information stitched together
  • GBE 6 Core Pages
  • GBE 6 Core Pages
  • GBE 2D View
    into GBE Encyclopaedia
  • Facility/Building Use
  • Facility/Building Type:
    Format Variations
  • Drill Down Sequence
    Elements
  • Elements: Foundation
  • Elements: Floors
  • Elements: Frame
  • Elements: Stair/Ramp
  • Elements: Ext.Wall
  • Windows Doors Rooflights
  • Systems: Proofing
  • Components in Assembly
  • Local
  • Extracting Golden Nuggets
  • The AECB Forum is very informative, has been very popular

–71,962 views, 46 replies in 1 topic

  • Congratulations Mark Siddall: Psi values
  • was a great way to share know-how;

–And its static not a drip feed like SM

  • was an invaluable part of the AECB offering

–to its members and way beyond

  • Overtaken by Social Media
  • AECB Forum’s role has been overshadowed

–in the last 5-7 years

–by the enormous success of social media platforms,

–which can play a similar role

–but with continually added sophistication

–offer much more to users

  • Whist AECB Forum platform has become moribund
  • its content remains as valid as ever.
  • By virtue of its format:

–it is full of golden nuggets

–buried in long strings of chatter

–sometimes cyclical and often repetitive.

–its many strands of discussion were not joined up or cross linked,

–to the detriment of its users learning opportunities.

  • This GBE proposal is to:
  • Determine the ambitions for ‘the essence or nuggets’,

–AECB Gurus essential to decide what is valid

  • Prepare briefing document and provide training:

–to project team (AECB members?)

–to know what to look for to save

–how each will be used in the end

–what to discard

  • Copy the content out (into Word for example, it it possible?)
  • Highlight the essence
  • Strike out the chatter (track changes on)
  • AECB Gurus & GBE check, confirm approach and catch loose ends
  • team members filter files and accept or reject changes

–Reformat for end uses

  • Capture the essence,
  • Its ‘golden nuggets’
  • Convert them into the most appropriate formats:

–Reference Documents/Bibliographies/Software tools

  • Reviews/critiques of parts

–Checklist

  • By trade: avoid this, consider these, reclaim and reuse, etc.

–Datasets, Equations, Calculators, Tools

–Specifications:

  • Recipes, Materials, Products, Accessories, Systems
  • Elemental assemblies, junctions and details

–Drawings,

  • Elemental assemblies, junctions and details

–Outlines: Essence of a thing in Hierarchy

–Etc. see more below

  • Deliver them using website technology
  • Join-up all the related information from all relevant Forum discussions
  • Links in both directions
  • to be as accessible and useful as possible
  • (GBE Neural network)
  • Make available to AECB
  • To members and
  • the public at large.
  • Via GBE, AECB website(s)
  • or both linked up using RSS technology
  • Avoiding duplication
    is important,
  • the content can maintained on one
  • and delivered to the other
  • using RSS technology.
  • Reinforcing and connecting the content of each
  • by sign posting each others complimentary content should occur.
  • Who does what?
  • The process of assimilating this information
  • Could and should be a joint effort between
  • AECB members and GBE in close liaison throughout.
  • Shared: spread nuggets between many, if little funding
  • Carried out by AECB members
  • Checked by GBE if fully funded
  • Building Website/parts/linking GBE happy to take on when funded
  • Capture the know-how of AECB Gurus before it is lost forever.
  • Who are the Gurus?
  • People like:
  • David and his numbers and number crunching
  • Mark e.g. Psi and Thermal Bypass
  • Paul e.g. Airtightness
  • Recent Graduates with Dissertations, Masters or PhDs on focused subjects
  • Priorities:
  • Oldest first
  • Younger will do this with their own know-how during their career, I hope
  • Process
  • Work with the Gurus to determine what could be useful to others in their absence
  • With AECB agreement.
  • Record their knowledge and know-how turn it into:
  • Know where
  • Sources of data or knowledge
  • Bibliography with links to PDFs or online shops
  • Know-how
  • How to use and apply the data in detail
  • Method statements detailed enough to follow
  • Procedures to get best results
  • Knowledge
  • Pages of illustrated text
  • By the GURUs or assisted by writers/editors
  • Builds to Encyclopaedia
  • Extracts from magazine back copies (Proposal 3?)
  • Issue papers:
  • Take one Issue
  • Download brain(s)
  • Organise into subtopics to become pages
  • Make into web pages and hyperlink like a daisy chain
  • Cross link with other Issue daisy chains
  • Issue papers: detail
  • Take one Issue

–Overheating example I wrote everything I know on the subject

–Failures and successes, examples from work, life, seminars and visits

–80 A4 pages = 200 sub topics (nuggets of information) = 200 web pages)

  • Download brain

–(theory, problems, solutions, examples, case studies, critique published stuff, statistics)

–These do not need to be scientific papers (but could be if you want)

–These do not need to be academic papers (but could be if you want)

–Can cross reference to bibliographies and other sources if available

–All will be hyperlinked

  • Organise into subtopics to become pages
  • Make into web pages and hyperlink like a daisy chain

–Pages may be issue pages, case studies, solutions,

–Well illustrated

–All filed in different places but linked in daisy chain style

–Link pages into encyclopaedia: to Solutions and Solution Providers, etc.

–Add Exec Summary, Content List, Jargon Busters, Checklists, Solution Lists

  • Cross link with other Issue daisy chains
  • Know-how
  • Data sets of materials, properties
  • Equations to interrogate data sets to make calculators
  • Calculators to become Apps (for BIM for example)
  • Multiples to create modelling tools
  • Expert Systems:
  • Capture their analytical thought processes
  • Materials and methods Hierarchical Outlines of their essence (Weatherboarding example)
  • Develop expert-system to allow others to experience them and learn from them
  • Convert as much as possible into design and decisions tools

 

  • GBE would welcome the opportunity to work with AECB to:
  • extract the essence of the Forum,
  • capture its Guru knowledge and
  • what it’s individual members do and
  • make it readily available to all of it’s members and to a wider audience.
  • The process of assimilating this information
  • would be a joint effort
  • between AECB members
  • Expert system authors
  • (up skill AECB members?)
  • GBE in close liaison throughout.
  • Why would anybody
    want to do this?
  • A chance to work with Gurus
  • A learning opportunity
  • Potential for specialisation
  • Specialist careers awaiting
  • A Guru’s Mini me
  • Who would want to do this?
    Somebody:
  • With an inquisitive mind
  • that wants to develop Apps
  • who needs to know a Guru’s know-how
  • who want to be the Guru’s mini-me
  • All contributors of
    know-how, time or funding
  • would be acknowledged
  • on each page footer
  • Along with © establishment
  • Costs
  • relate to time to carryout tasks
  • all need to be paid to do this or no incentive
  • Income from sale of:

–data sets, tools, apps

–files

–membership

–pages occupied by paying guests

  • Income apportioned
    as appropriate:
  • overhead costs to hosting website
  • income for time or know-how contributors
  • repay AECB to cover development costs
  • if not funded by other means
  • © Green Building Encyclopaedia
  • Brian Murphy BSc Dip Arch (Hons+Dist)
  • 10th June 2016 – 15th July 2016
  • Green Building Encyclopaedia (GBE)’s approach to delivering information:
  • identify issues,
  • investigate their problems,
  • analyse cause and effect,
  • determine basic principles,
  • identify rules of thumb;
  • refer to past experience and projects
  • find solutions
  • lists solution providers and solutions.
  • All delivered in a way that
  • informs and educates the readers,
  • if they have the time
  • if they care to learn.
  • GBE offers many types of information
  • supporting the ambition for environmental building,
  • these include:
  • Jargon Buster:
  • Addressing definitions of new terms
  • used in environmental design
  • and construction in general,
  • Environmental Checklist
  • New Build,
  • Refurbishment,
  • Adaptation checklists
  • One for every trade,
  • “Avoid this, consider these and recycle or reclaim those”
  • and a lot more
  • Materials:
  • Characteristics and properties of environmental, healthy and conventional materials
  • Appropriate applications to consider
  • Inappropriate applications to avoid
  • Data sets and equations for calculators or Apps.
  • Issue Papers:
  • Interrogating issues that are generating big or numerous problems that need to be understood
  • Enable correction and avoidance in future
  • E.g. Overheating,
  • External Wall Insulation
  • Thermal Bridges,
  • Flood Resilience,
  • Healthy buildings, etc.
  • Defects Analysis:
  • When GBE users submit:
  • images of defects
  • we analyse the images
  • promote reasons for the failure
  • and offer solutions
  • Questions & Answers:
  • GBE users occasionally phone the helpdesk and ask questions,
  • GBE’s published response is always thorough
  • Addressing all the questions around the first question
  • Ensure all issues are understood and answers given
  • Enable informed decisions to be made.
  • Companies:
  • Manufacturer, suppliers, installers, servers (service providers) and specialist consultants.
  • Contact details
  • Linked to all their product or service pages
  • Products, accessories and systems:
  • Product pages with description, analysis
  • Appropriate and competent applications
  • All supporting information attached and downloadable or listed and linked to
  • Robust specifications:
  • Each component, assembly and detail,
  • Elemental specifications linked to component specifications
  • Workmanship, waste,
  • Maintenance, deconstruction and reuse.
  • Elemental Assemblies:
    (walls and floors, etc.)
  • Each element is shown in many different methods of construction.
  • 892 are documented already, ready to post on line.
  • These can be selected from and added to;
  • They offer the opportunity to describe readymade combinations of components, materials and products that through AECB experience make environmental and healthier buildings.
  • Each assembly described in detail:
  • CAD files and/or 2D or 3D diagrams
  • Appropriate components and materials or products can be identified and linked
  • Data sets and equations:
  • Data sets: (e.g. Timber species)
  • Make calculators (e.g. Whole Building EE EC SC Energy Loss, Elemental %, Fuel Choice, CO2, Waste)
  • Become core components of Apps in future (E.g. Timber carbon calculator)
  • Expert systems to create Design & Decision Tools
  • CPD seminars
  • 1000 so far (Environmental Construction, Specification, Professional Practice)
  • To read on-line
  • To download, print and hand-out
  • To edit and present to audiences
  • All of the above:
  • All relevant and related pages listed and linked in both directions
  • No need to search menus and lists
  • Everything at your finger tips
  • Sampler
  • This is a cut down version of the original file to give you a sample of the whole
  • It’s the front end of the file with the middle and rear end deleted
  • Go to www.GreenBuildingEncyclopaedia.uk
  • to down load the whole file
  • You will find a large number of other files there too
  • Feedback
  • These files are created by generalists with a big dollop of green flavour
  • These files are updated from time to time
  • We are not experts so from time to time these file may get out of date or may be wrong.
  • If you feel that we have got it wrong please let us know so we can put it right
  • © GBE 2016
  • Brian Murphy BSc Dip Arch (Hons+Dist)

–Architect by Training

–Specification Writer by Choice

–Environmentalist by Actions

© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy
aka BrianSpecMan
10th June 2016 – 13th July 2016

Capturing AECBs Golden Nuggets and Guru Know-How
Images:

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AECB 2016_programme_outline  PDF

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AECB 2015 Display GBE 2D View

2015 Sheffield AECB Annual Conference Presentation

GBE Mind map

GBE Mind map


What we imagine GBE 2D View will look like

Storyboard of screen shots of GBE’s 2D View

GBE 2D View Junction Close Up

 

© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy
aka BrianSpecMan
10th June 2016 – 13th July 2016

Capturing AECBs Golden Nuggets and Guru Know-How
See Also:

AECB stuff

GBE offers many types of information supporting the ambition for environmental building, these include:

Jargon Buster:

  • Addressing definitions of new terms
  • used in environmental design
  • and construction in general,

Environmental Checklist

  • New Build,
  • Refurbishment,
  • Adaptation checklists
  • One for every trade,
  • “Avoid this, consider these and recycle or reclaim those”
  • and a lot more

Materials:

  • Characteristics and properties of environmental, healthy and conventional materials
  • Appropriate applications to consider
  • Inappropriate applications to avoid
  • Data sets and equations for calculators or Apps.

Issue Papers:

  • Interrogating issues that are generating big or numerous problems that need to be understood
  • Enable correction and avoidance in future
  • E.g. Overheating,
  • External Wall Insulation
  • Thermal Bridges,
  • Flood Resilience,
  • Healthy buildings, etc.

Defects Analysis:

  • When GBE users submit:
  • images of defects
  • we analyse the images
  • promote reasons for the failure
  • and offer solutions

Questions & Answers:

  • GBE users occasionally phone the helpdesk and ask questions,
  • GBE’s published response is always thorough
  • Addressing all the questions around the first question
  • Ensure all issues are understood and answers given
  • Enable informed decisions to be made.

Companies:

  • Manufacturer, suppliers, installers, servers (service providers) and specialist consultants.
  • Contact details
  • Linked to all their product or service pages

Products, accessories and systems:

  • Product pages with description, analysis
  • Appropriate and competent applications
  • All supporting information attached and downloadable or listed and linked to

Robust specifications:

  • Each component, assembly and detail,
  • Elemental specifications linked to component specifications
  • Workmanship, waste,
  • Maintenance, deconstruction and reuse.

Elemental Assemblies: (walls and floors, etc.)

  • Each element is shown in many different methods of construction.
  • 892 are documented already, ready to post on line.
  • These can be selected from and added to;
  • They offer the opportunity to describe readymade combinations of components, materials and products that through AECB experience make environmental and healthier buildings.
  • Each assembly described in detail:
  • CAD files and/or 2D or 3D diagrams
  • Appropriate components and materials or products can be identified and linked

Data sets and equations:

  • Data sets: (e.g. Timber species)
  • Make calculators (e.g. Whole Building EE EC SC Energy Loss, Elemental %, Fuel Choice, CO2, Waste)
  • Become core components of Apps in future (E.g. Timber carbon calculator)
  • Expert systems to create Design & Decision Tools

CPD seminars

  • 1000 so far (Environmental Construction, Specification, Professional Practice)
  • To read on-line
  • To download, print and hand-out
  • To edit and present to audiences

All of the above:

  • All relevant and related pages listed and linked in both directions
  • No need to search menus and lists
  • Everything at your finger tips

© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy
aka BrianSpecMan
10th June 2016 – 13th July 2016

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