Briefing

The authors

Paul Fletcher is a thought leader, architect and director of ‘through’’, a built-environment consultancy that combines behavioural economics with building physics and architecture. Whilst studying at Sheffield University he co-developed new collaborative studio-teaching methods empowered by 3D CAD. In 2000 he founded ‘Teamwork’, a pan-industry ‘learning by doing organisation’ that explored innovation in multidisciplinary working for a better built environment, as fuelled by Building Information Modelling (BIM). More recently he established the industry think tank ‘Whetstone’ with the intent of sharpening the cutting edge of a 21st-century industry through cooperative processes, big data, social media and ‘everyware’ technologies. ...