Last year an architect offered to buy my bimdoc.com domain name. I don’t think she was interested in my website – just the name. She offered me a price but I had to say no to her, despite that “bimdoc” fitted in beautifully with her BIM practice. But it also fits in nicely into my…
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Announcement: 2nd International Workshop on Complex Formations
Keep in touch with the many folk now working in bimrocks and bimsoils – visit Turin in person (or online) in May for the 2nd International Workshop on Complex Formations, co-sponsored by the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italian Geotechnical Association, the Int Society Rock Mechanics and several companies. Online participation is possible if you cannot…
Getting back to work again (and, again)
After far too many years of sloth, it is time to update the bimrocks site. Update? More like give the site a thorough cleaning, retrofit, remodel… Why now? A colleague in Iran suggested gently that the site needed some overhaul. He had found it useful when starting his research a few years ago but I…
On First Encountering Melange
This tale has been told before (at my website edmedley.com) but it is not a bad story and can bear re-telling.. My life and career lurched abruptly in early 1989, when I first encountered a melange.