Sites

www.psmj.com
More Design Firm Intelligence Than Anywhere Else on the Planet - Frank Stasiowski visits Australia regularly and is supported here by Gil Arnold and others.

www.management-consultants.com.au
The Institute of Management Consultants establishes and maintains internationally recognized standards for the consulting profession.

www.buildingsmart.org.au
The new IAI-AC web-site expressing a Vision for a Smarter Lifecycle Process for the Built Environment.

www.interoperability.org.au
The Australia and New Zealand Chapter of the IAI serving the construction and facilities management industries dedicated to improving processes within the industry through defining the use and sharing of information.

www.cwic.org.au
An IAI-AC project site - Industry technologyroadmap for virtual prototyping.

www.iai-international.org/iai_international
The International Alliance for Interoperability - A global alliance of organisations with over 600 member organizations in 17 countries.

www.interoperability.org.au/3275.html
A list of Australian AEC industry related bodies you may find useful.

www.aecbytes.com
One of the most highly regarded newsletters by Dr. Lachmi Khemlani who has a Ph.D. in Architecture from UC Berkeley, specializing in intelligent building modeling.

www.leanconstruction.org
Organisation founded to develop knowledge regarding project based production management in the design, engineering, and construction of capital facilities learned from manufacturing.

www.archvoices.org
A USA site focused on architectural education, internship, and licensure.

Articles

http://www.buildings.com/Articles/ detail.asp?ArticleID=2322
For those servicing the education market - the USA Sustainable Buildings Industry Council (SBIC) has announced the publication and release of the second edition of its High-Performance School Buildings Resource and Strategy Guide.

Skills Shortage Addressed (24-Feb-2005)
http://www.infolink.com.au/articles/37/ 0C02D237.asp
The University of Newcastle's Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment has joined forces with Connell Wagner, one of Australasia's largest engineering consulting practices, in a bid to address the current skill shortage in engineering.

http://www.aia.org/nwsltr_spf.cfm?pagename=spf_a_joint_20050318
What can be done to ensure your project has minimal coordination problems? Jeff Rouse suggests some solutions in the AIA Small Project Practitioners Knowledge.

The Fountainheadache: The Politics of Architect-Client Relations
Author: Pressman, Andy
http://www10.aeccafe.com/book/ parse_book.php?article=0471309923/index.html
An interesting "sequel" (not) to Fountainhead - that classic by Ayn Rand (Ronald Reagan's favourite author) and also about an architect who dreamt of building monuments to commerce.