Category: AEC

Apr 13 2009

Asite asides

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Legal, People issues, Vendors
13 April 2009

Asite is not the only business proposing to de-list from London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM – see post and follow-up). According to The Guardian, research by law firm Trowers & Hamlyn shows that de-listings are up a record 33% in the year to March 2009, as the credit crunch forces many to the wall. Financial …

AEC sector, AIM, Alternative Investment Market, Asite, compliance, construction collaboration technology, credit crunch, de-listing, Iceland, insolvency, Kaupthing, London, nomads, Observer, recession, Robert Tchenguiz, shareholders

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Apr 09 2009

BIM boom?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, People issues
9 April 2009

The BIM boom, an article in the US-oriented Concrete Construction Online, gives a good overview of building information modelling (BIM) in the AEC industry, with author Andy O’Nan suggesting everyone needs to prepare for the eminent technological revolution facing the construction industry. However, he stresses there are some major hurdles to overcome, particularly relating to …

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Apr 07 2009

Asite shares slide

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Vendors
7 April 2009

Shares in SaaS collaboration vendor Asite have continued their slide downwards in the wake of last week’s news that the company is to de-list from the London Stock Exchange. They closed at 1.125p yesterday, equalled their all-time low of 1.00p again during trading today before plunging to close at just 0.375p, down 66% on the …

AIM, Asite, collaboration, Environment Agency, London Stock Exchange, SaaS, shares
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Apr 03 2009

Building: the survival issue

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing
3 April 2009

This week’s issue of UK industry magazine, Building, has been dubbed the survival issue. After the usual gloomy news of more job losses and companies going bust, there are a series of features on topics like how to spot signs of recovery (not for some time yet, it seems), how to survive the recession, and …

Autodesk Labs, BIM, blog, Building, construction collaboration technologies, Construction News, e-tendering, ERP, freeware, golf days, Google Sketchup, Heathrow Terminal 5, IT technologies, magazine, marketing, OpenOffice, PR, recession, recession-busting, RICS, Ross Sturley, Stephen Kennett

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Apr 03 2009

BIM and social media

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Future, People issues, Sustainability, Web 2.0
3 April 2009

Last month, Birmingham-based architect Rob Annable of Axis Design spoke at Ecobuild on BIM and social media (see post). The Building Sustainable Design blog has just published a guest post by Rob in which he elaborates on that presentation – it’s well worth reading. (Thanks, Rob for the Be2camp mention!)

Axis Design, Be2camp, BIM, blog, Building Sustainable Design, EcoBuild, Rob Annable, Social Media

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Mar 30 2009

Sword subsidiaries Cimage and CTSpace to merge

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
30 March 2009

Just over 15 months ago, following the acquisition of CTSpace by the Sword Group, I briefly mentioned existing Sword subsidiary and UK-based EDMS vendor Cimage (see CTSpace put to the Sword). Last month, Sword announced that Cimage and CTSpace would become a merged entity, Sword CTSpace. MD of Sword CTSpace and operations director for Sword …

acquisition, C2Share, CTSpace, EDMS, Fusion, Gert-Jan de Kieviet, on-demand, on-premise, recession, SaaS, SharePoint, Software-as-a-Service, Sword CTSpace, Sword group, vendor Cimage
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Mar 27 2009

Asite to de-list from AIM to trim costs

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
27 March 2009

The board of UK-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor Asite is looking to take the company private, according to an announcement to the London Stock Exchange this morning. The resolution to de-list will be put to a general meeting in London on 20 April 2009, and, subject to shareholder approval, the de-listing will be effective …

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Mar 26 2009

2D to 3D: still a work in progress

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Future, People issues
26 March 2009

Estimates regarding the adoption of building information modelling (BIM) vary depending on who you talk to, where they are based, and what kind of role they have. About 18 months ago, for instance, an American survey estimated that about 35% of building owners had tried BIM on one or more projects (see my post), while …

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Mar 24 2009

StoreData up for sale?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
24 March 2009

This morning, UK-based specialist contractor Styles & Wood announced that it “is currently exploring a number of options to strengthen its balance sheet including a potential equity fund raising and a potential sale to private equity.” Styles & Wood includes a construction collaboration technology business, StoreData – since last year part of the group’s StorePlanning …

construction collaboration technology, private equity, RNS, sale, Stock Exchange, StoreData, Styles & Wood

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Mar 23 2009

VisualTao: CAD on demand

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
23 March 2009

For the third time this month (following SolidWorks and CADaaS, 2 March, and BIMserver.org: right technology, right time?, 3 March), I return to one of my favourite topics: delivering computer-aided design (CAD) solutions on a Software-as-a-Service model. I received an email from someone at an Israeli business development group, Trendlines. My correspondent had read my …