UK Construction Week

May 11, 2026

At UK Construction Week, I participated in a panel on Artificial Intelligence with David Philp and Silvia Gioja.

The session, titled “Beyond the hype: Building AI-ready teams for the digital built environment,” moved past the surface-level excitement surrounding AI technologies and focus on practical strategies for integrating intelligent systems into construction workflows. We addressed challenges such as skill gaps, change management and aligning AI initiatives with broader business objectives.

Here’s the link to the session. Thanks to Women in BIM for the invitation.

architecture, engineering and construction

The Answer’s in Your Model (and yet, it might be wrong)

A few weeks ago, in one of those happy convergences of life, I was reading an Italian essay on Italo Calvino and artificial intelligence (I wrote about it here), and there’s a very interesting set of passages that have to do with our contemporary obsession

September 16, 2026 9:00 am

movies and tv

The End of Oak Street

By the life of me, I don’t understand how’s possible that this movie was ever cleared for production. The concept is simple, and shamefully Stephen King-esque: a portion of a small suburban town gets teleported into a not particularly well-defined “age of dinosaurs,” and the

September 14, 2026 9:00 am

books and literature

Susanna Clarke’s The Ladies of Grace Adieau

I had forgotten how much I was bored by Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, but I trust I’ll like other stuff by the same author and, before tackling Piranesi, I decided to finally approach this one. Not remembering these are spin-off stories from Jonathan

September 13, 2026 9:00 am