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Dear Friend - Welcome!
This weekend, I'm participating in an event I'd recommend to you all - the AEC Hackathon in Copenhagen.
For those who might not be aware what a 'hackathon' is - it's essentially a meeting place for tech-passionates who try to 'hack' a solution in a short amount of time - usually a day or a weekend.
This is my second AEC Hackathon, and the story of the first one is something I posted about this week on LinkedIn.
The reason I recommend these Hackathons to people is very simple:
If you want to meet Change Makers, the ones who truly want, need, and crave change in the AEC industry - you'll meet them here.
1. The Shattered Ceiling
If you're anything like me, the open-minded people are one of the keys to what made university a great place to be.
I got to meet so many forward-thinking people, learn with and from them, and test newest tech solutions in the industry.
I loved it - I loved how advanced the technology was and I even thought of a few ideas on how we could take it further.
I thought the whole world is like this - developed, open-minded, and ready for change.
And then I got a job.
My ceiling was shattered when I found out that my workplace lacked a lot of these 'great new technologies' we learned about at uni, and implementing them was something very few dared - and even fewer did successfully.
Back then, I didn't understand why this was the case, as I had trouble understanding why we simply couldn't use the 'great new technology', when it would obviously help us solve so many problems...
2. The Cause
After a few years in the industry, things have been getting somewhat better in regard to implementation of technology - but progress was incredibly slow.
Moreover, this progress was mainly seen on pilot projects, and it was impossible to see any wide-spread implementation.
I started understanding why this was - and it's because of this graph:
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