August collaboration: a quick PR round-up

August is an unforgiving month for PR efforts, particularly in the UK. Journalists, readers and bloggers (including me – northern Spain, very nice!) go on holiday, publications miss an edition or two, or have fewer pages, and fewer people visit websites. In case you missed them, kudos, then, to these SaaS construction collaboration technology vendors trying to maintain their profile:

• 4Projects – posting (so far) four UK news releases (M9 upgrade, Carillion, Kier Partnership Homes and a new project on their north-east England home turf)
• Asite – told us about their new CallPrint relationship (post) – and has just blogged about its adoption of Akamai technology (something already deployed by Aconex)
• BIW Technologies – announcing the release of a new version of its NEC3 contract management solution, embedding contract clauses, guidance notes and flowcharts into its application
• Cadweb – forming a partnership with BIM provider Rapid5D
• Docia – expanding into emerging markets and telling me about a new project in New Delhi, India for the Danish Embassy, with VV Architects from Chennai, local contractors and WSP Group
• Unit4 Collaboration – announcing its parent Group half-year results; no exact details on the financials of the SaaS subsidiary amid “the ups and downs of the global economy” but MD Sanjeev Shah says the company “continues to make encouraging progress … are performing well and… have achieved our target for H1 2011.”