Personas mayores y sus experiencias frente al cambio tecnológico en Murcia Capital: Estudio desde la perspectiva de género

Este estudio forma parte de la tesis doctoral presentada en 2014. Es de tipo cualitativo y tiene como base la Teoría de las expectativas de Eficacia (Bandura, 1977) que pretende hacer un acercamiento sobre cómo las personas mayores se enfrentan al cambio tecnológico en Murcia Capital. Los objetivos del mismo indagan sobre las dificultades, miedos, frustraciones o motivaciones que estas personas experimentan al hacer uso de la tecnología. Con base en sus experiencias, hombres y mujeres mayores, hablan sobre cómo se enfrentan al cambio tecnológico en el ámbito del hogar y del trabajo. Y de cómo esto afecta o contribuye en su desempeño en el trabajo, de la dificultad que representa hacer uso de la tecnología cuando nadie puede auxiliarlos/as o de la motivación que tienen debido al logro de diferentes actividades en línea realizadas con éxito. El estudio 10.601 aporta una nueva visión al identificar diferencias y similitudes entre hombres y mujeres mayores cuando hacen uso de Internet y sus aplicaciones.

The Big BIM battle: BIM adoption in the UK for large and small companies

As BIM adoption continues, the goal of a totally collaborative model with multiple contributors is attainable. Many initiatives such as the 2016 UK government level 2 BIM deadline are putting pressure on the construction industry to speed up the changeover. Clients and collaborators have higher expectations of using digital 3D models to communicate design ideas and solve practical problems. Contractors and clients are benefitting from cost saving scheduling and clash detection offered by BIM. Effective collaboration on the project will also give speed and efficiency gains. Despite this, many businesses of varying sizes are still having problems. The cost of the software and the training provides an obvious barrier for micro-enterprises and could explain a delay in adoption. Many studies have looked at these problems faced by SME and micro-enterprises. Larger companies have different problems. The efforts made by government to encourage them are quite comprehensive, but is anything being done to help smaller sectors and keep the industry cohesive? This limited study examines several companies of varying size and varying project type: architectural design businesses, main contractor, structural engineer and building consultancy. The study examines the barriers to a truly collaborative BIM workflow facing different specialities on a larger project and a contrasting small/medium project. The findings will establish that different barriers for each sector are actually pushing further apart, thus potentially creating a BIM-only construction elite, leaving the small companies remaining on 2D based drawing.