The construction industry is one of the oldest industries in the world and one that continues to change with client demand. In recent decades, innovation in the construction industry has greatly improved, increasing productivity. Innovation in construction refers to the generation and implementation of new ideas to enhance the performance of construction processes and to gain economic, environmental, and social benefits. Modern innovative digital technologies in construction include application of virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR), blockchain, 3D printing, building information modeling (BIM), and off-site manufacturing. This chapter will explore the application of these innovative digital technologies in construction. It will particularly include recent case studies and examples from the New Zealand construction industry.
In the introduction to their column, co-authors Emma Wood and Jessica Almeida aptly note that libraries and fines have long been synonymous. The notion of librarians as punitive avengers, be it for enforcing silence or demanding payback for overdue items, is commonly held and has been widely caricatured. The image is one that, more and more, many of us don’t embody or wish to embrace. Against a backdrop of social theory, and with an emphasis on customer service and relationship building, Wood and Almeida present an appealing, practical alternative in the form of a fine-free framework. While not necessarily adaptable to all library environments, the model—along with its broader impacts—is well worth considering.—Editor
This chapter explores the efficacy of using Freire's pedagogy of the oppressed as a way of understanding how young people co-produced the 'AlcoLOLs' i intervention aimed at encouraging young people to challenge social norms associated with what we call Scotland's drinking culture and make confident, informed decisions about the amount of alcoholic drink they consume. It attempts to show how using "reflection and action directed at the structures to be transformed…oppressed people can acquire a critical awareness of their own condition, and, with their allies, struggle for liberation' (Freire 2017 p.36). Specific challenges focus on the extent to which young Scots can be seen as oppressed (so in Freirian terms are 'doers' rather than 'thinkers') and whether the dialogical intervention that transforms them can be explained as the young participants' developing praxis. 5 key words: alcohol, praxis, oppression, dialogue, teenagers, young people i The title The AlcoLOLs Project (with LOL being textspeak for Laugh Out Loud) was coined by the coproducers who came to self identify as AlcoLOLs to the extent of commissioning and wearing prefect style badges naming themselves as such on their school uniforms.
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