Category: AEC

Nov 19 2007

Project extranets in Peterborough Evening Telegraph

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues
19 November 2007

Project extranets (a term often used synonymously with ‘construction collaboration technologies’) are not usually something you see discussed in your average local evening newspaper in the UK. However, I see that a Davis Langdon employee, Simon Burke, has just won a special award for his masters dissertation on the subject of extranets – an achievement reported …

Cambridge, collaboration, Construction, contract administration, Davis Langdon, NEC2, Peterborough, Project Extranet, Simon Burke

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Nov 14 2007

Integrated Product Delivery – quick follow-up

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, Internet
14 November 2007

After my post on the new AIA guide last week, a couple of people have been in touch. First, Graham Robinson (who I met earlier this year on a Collaborative Working Champions visit to Magal in Reading) observes: “… the USA lags behind UK to some extent, although they do some things better, particularly standardisation. It …

AIA, BIM, DBIA, IPD, Magal

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Nov 09 2007

Construction Computing Show 2007

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
9 November 2007

Later this month, I will be presenting a 25-minute seminar at 2pm on both days of the Construction Computing Show 2007 at the Emirates Stadium in north London, 21-22 November. The educational seminar programme is being run by the IT Construction Forum (part of Constructing Excellence) and several of its IT Partners are involved: BIW of …

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Nov 08 2007

Laiserin’s latest lucid column

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Legal, People issues
8 November 2007

My previous post (Integrated Project Delivery – US guide) talks repeatedly about Building Information Modelling (BIM). For readers interested in learning more about BIM as a process – as distinct from a set of technologies – I recommend Jerry Laiserin’s latest AEC Insight Column at Cadalyst (To BIMfinity and beyond!).

BIM, Cadalyst, IPD, Jerry Laiserin

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Nov 08 2007

Integrated Project Delivery – US guide

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Legal, People issues
8 November 2007

The American Institute of Architects (AIA), with the AIA California Council, has published Integrated Project Delivery: A Guide. This excellent document explains how project teams might move from a traditional approach to project procurement and delivery to a more collaborative, integrated team model. There are similarities with UK initiatives earlier this decade, but this guide also …

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Nov 07 2007

ICT, sustainability and contracts

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Legal, Marketing, Sustainability
7 November 2007

I met Building sustainability blogger Phil Clark last week for a coffee, and he was good enough to talk about our conversation on Zerochampion. As well as talking about sustainability, the potential contribution of collaboration technologies and the environmental downsides of ICT, we also talked more generally about collaborative working and contracts. Being involved in …

BIM, BIW, blogger, Building magazine, contracts, Phil Clark, sustainability, ZeroChampion

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Nov 07 2007

World Architecture Festival

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Marketing
7 November 2007

It’s always nice to go somewhere warm and sunny when the weather in the UK can be more than a little unpredictable. This is probably why so many UK property people head down to the French Riviera every March for MIPIM. Next year, architects will get the chance to do the same, but in October, when the …

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Nov 05 2007

Project Draw

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Internet, SaaS
5 November 2007

Have you tried Project Draw? No? Well, Autodesk’s new drawing application is available as a free Software-as-a-Service application from Autodesk Labs, and for the occasional graphic it is excellent. Last week, I had to send a designer an outline of what I wanted by way of a graphic, and – with my freehand drawing getting more …

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Oct 30 2007

CTSpace shifts India operation

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
30 October 2007

CTSpace, the construction collaboration technology vendor formed last year out of the merger of Citadon and BuildOnline, has moved its Pune, India-based software development operation to Symphony Services. CTSpace engineers will become Symphony employees based in Pune. Symphony “recently completed work on a new user interface to CTSpace’s collaboration solutions for managing documents and business …

AEC, BuildOnline, Citadon, CTSpace, India, Pune, Symphony Services

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Oct 29 2007

Goldfish coincidence

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Marketing
29 October 2007

Last year, UK collaboration vendor ePin updated its website and I remarked upon its use of goldfish images. I have just been forwarded an email from Emap Glenigan, the business information people, and noted that they also employed goldfish imagery. I am none the wiser about what the images are supposed to convey – being a …