A brief synopsis in the use of ICT and ICPM in the construction industry

The Cooperative Research Centre for Construction Innovation (CRCCI) research project 2001-008-C: 'Project Team Integration: Communication, Coordination and Decision Support', is supported by a number of Australian industry, government and university based project partners including: Queensland University of Technology (QUT); Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), University of Newcastle; Queensland Department of Public Works (QDPW); and the Queensland Department of Main Roads (QDMR). Supporting the project’s research aims and objectives, and as the first major deliverable for the project, this report provides an overall 'snapshot' of current public and private Architectural, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry sector statistics, practices, cultures and research directions towards the implementation and application of ICPM and ICT tools and systems

The Vita Bedae and the Craft of Hagiography

Bede was (and is) justly renowned for his scholarship and admired for his piety; an early cult, such as it was, proved abortive and he was never canonised. Nevertheless, he was subsequently the subject of a Vita which, in sharp contrast to his own autobiographical note, is pointedly hagiographical. The oldest surviving copy of the text in question was added as an early supplement to the manuscript of the Historia ecclesiastica that was given to Durham Cathedral priory by Bishop William of Saint Calais (d. 1096). Although the text is anonymous, internal evidence suggests that it was probably composed at Jarrow after its restoration in the 1070s or alternatively in Durham after the conversion of the cathedral community to a Benedictine priory (1083), staffed with monks from Jarrow. Because the sources for the Vita Bedae are identifiable, the work provides a sharply focused lens through which to perceive the devices that could be used by an eleventh‐century hagiographer to re‐present a very famous subject as a saint, and the various strategies he uses to achieve this end are duly explored. More generally, the text provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on medieval perceptions and expectations of sanctity

L’Angleterre et la Flandre aux Xe et XIe Siècles

L’Encomium d’Emma de Normandie – reine d’Angleterre de 1002 à 1035, femme des rois Æthelraed et Cnut, son successeur –, une source narrative importante pour le règne danois en Angleterre, fut apparemment réalisé en 1041-1042 par un religieux à Saint-Omer. Le manuscrit existant est probablement celui qui fut préparé afin d’être soumis à Emma, et sa provenance médiévale est l’abbaye de Saint-Augustin à Canterbury (fig. 1). Bien que l’œuvre et les circonstances de sa production soient indubitabl..