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Blockchain and Web3 in AECO

Workplace Innovator Crossover

By Brittanie Campbell-Turner | 05/01/2018

Mike Petrusky, Director of Events and Growth Marketing at iOFFICE is the host of the Workplace Innovator Podcast – Enhancing Your Employee Experience. This is actually a crossover episode with Mike, he has released my interview on the Workplace Innovator podcast, here.  You will enjoy what Mike has to say from the Facility Manager and Workplace…

Understanding the Building Information Modeling Paradigm Shift

By Brittanie Campbell-Turner | 04/24/2018

Michael DeLacey, Principal and Co-founder at Microdesk assists Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Owner/ Operators (AECO) companies in overcoming the challenges of integrating technology into the planning, design, construction and operations and maintenance process specializing in Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Enterprise Asset Management (EAM). Microdesk offers knowledge, perspective, expertise to help solve complex project problems and…

How Illinois Is Supporting the Blockchain Initiative

By Brittanie Campbell-Turner | 04/21/2018

Lexy Prodromos and Jennifer O’Rouarke were my guests on today’s show where they share with me how Illinois is supporting the Blockchain Initiative. We discuss how the Chicago Blockchain Center came about and how Lexy proposed for Illinois to embark on an initiative. Sign up for the Distributed Markets Event, here. Follow what Illinois is doing and…

Scalable Blockchain Database for Decentralized Construction Apps

By Brittanie Campbell-Turner | 04/17/2018

Brian is the Co-CEO and Co-Chairman of FlureeDB, a new decentralized app platform that will transform how business applications are built. Fluree DB is the first true blockchain database. Fluree DB supports a multiple of blockchain consensus according to chosen transaction characteristics. Its query allows joins across multiple databases, so multiple consensus Databases can be queried as a…

Increase Success for Capital Projects with Advanced Work Packaging

By Brittanie Campbell-Turner | 04/10/2018

Olfa Hamdi, founder and Executive Director of the Advanced Work Packaging Institute, and CEO at Concord Project Technologies. She “argues that owners and EPC contractors need to pay more attention to the PEP, and transform it into a live document that functions as the single source of truth on a project, from beginning to end.…

Developing a Viable Blockchain Implementation Plan for Real Estate

By Brittanie Campbell-Turner | 04/03/2018

Kevin Shtofman is a digital technology evangelist at Deloitte Consulting. He promotes Blockchain, Robotics, Cognitive Automation, and Machine Learning in Real Estate. Kevin talks about how in real estate transactions, where transferring funds from party to party could take days or weeks, can take minutes on a blockchain. He also discusses many of the pilot projects…

National Association of Realtors is Contributing to the Blockchain Revolution

By Brittanie Campbell-Turner | 03/27/2018

Dave Conroy research & development Lab Engineer at National Association of Realtors. He frequently educates about how Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies, Prototyping, Software Design, Management, and Networking can integrate with Real Estate. He believes that Real Estate / Finance & Supply Chain are the most viable markets for a blockchain and If you are…

Using Blockchain to Transform the Real Estate Industry

By Brittanie Campbell-Turner | 03/20/2018

Ragnar Lifthrasir, Founder of the International Blockchain Real Estate Association and Founder and CEO of velox.RE talks with us about the blockchain pilot velox.RE. This pilot was done in Cook County to achieve the first USA based conveyance of a property and a public recording of the associated deed using the bitcoin blockchain. Lastly, we discuss…

Decentralized Knowledge Inventory Platform for the Built Environment

By Brittanie Campbell-Turner | 03/13/2018

Dan Robles is one of the founders of the Integrated Engineering Blockchain Consortium. He talks about the engineering profession from a traditional segmented hierarchy structure to a network structure like common database called the engineering Body of Knowledge. He talks about capturing the knowledge that exists between the ears, instead of reducing it to a…

Blockchain Based Economic Development For Corporate Real Estate Assets

By Brittanie Campbell-Turner | 03/06/2018

Scott Nelson, CEO of Sweetbridge is endeavoring to provide liquidity to the supply chains of the world and to unlock the value of $700T of assets, assets that are typically illiquid. Sweetbridge is a blockchain based protocol stack that enables highly efficient supply chains and commerce without intermediaries. We will unpack this as we go…