Building Magazine October 2019 https://www.building.co.uk/communities/construction-industry-gossip-they-think-its-all-over/5101981.article
Matthew Featured on Front Page of Building Magazine
Matthew was recently featured as one of Building Magazine’s Digital Champions: https://www.building.co.uk/focus/introducing-buildings-digital-champions-you-have-just-got-to-be-brave/5100690.article#Katya_Valeva__BIM_strategy_consultant_Archilizer_not_pictured_in_group_photographs Matthew Marson, Head of Smart Places, WSP What do you do? I help our clients understand how they can get technology into the built environment. What’s holding construction back in the digital sphere? Why is it that Uber was so successful in the 12 months from […]
Construction Innovation Hub
At the kick off of the BRE’s Construction Innovation Hub Smart Buildings Projec, Matthew presented on ‘The 5 Things Learnt from Getting Smart Wrong”. Following an interview, this summary was produced by the BRE.
It’s Time for Landlords to Get Smart
If you are a landlord, your traditional role in the property market will soon change. You will increasingly be expected to build, operate and curate homes and offices that provide a host of smart digital services – from environmental sensing to entry controlled by facial recognition. Why? Because this is what people want If you […]
Designing a Truly Smart Hospital
As digital technologies become increasingly familiar in our day-to-day lives, the distinction between physical and digital reality is already blurring. This is as true in the world of medicine and healthcare, as it is in sectors such as travel and retail. There are already apps we can use on laptops, tablets or mobile phones to […]
Design Thinking for Smart Places
Smart technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) are becoming mainstream, bringing with them design-thinking for a smart built environment that demands a different way of approaching projects. Where it was once possible to design a building or service according to technical requirements alone, it is now necessary to design with relentless interrogation of what […]
Could Buildings be the New Smart Phone?
Head of Smart Buildings in the UK and Middle East, Matthew Marson ponders how far a rethink of offsite modular buildings could go in the world of smart technology… Offsite construction isn’t new, but it has an affinity with smart technology, which is often made elsewhere and brought to you in the form of a […]
Young Member Visionary 2016/2017
Read the original article here The Young Members Board awards the Young Member Visionary Award, and it recognises an individual who has made an outstanding contribution across inspiring the next generation, raising the profile of engineering, engineering innovation and learning and development. The winner receives a place at the Essential Management Skills conference in 2017. […]
What is it that makes The Dock a World-Leading Connected Building?
See the original blog here The Dock represents the next leap forward for connected buildings. Located at the heart of Dublin’s tech quarter, the new global research and incubation hub is geared towards collaboration, and has been designed as a workspace where multidisciplinary teams can come together to tackle some of the world’s biggest problems. […]
Designing a World Leading Connected Building
A video about the team designing a World Leading Connected Building: