Category: AEC

Oct 09 2007

4Projects 2006 results

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, SaaS, Vendors
9 October 2007

Keeping my records up-to-date, I checked on the financial results of UK construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects for the year ending 31 March 2006 at Companies House. It seems I was a little over-optimistic about my April 2007 guess-timate for its performance…. Instead of reaching £2.7m turnover, it managed £2.291m, up 10% from its 2005 …

4Projects, AEC, BIW Technologies, Business Collaborator, collaboration, Construction, CTSpace, Leighton, UK
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Oct 08 2007

Beat the post strike – collaborate online

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Internet, Marketing
8 October 2007

One benefit of using a construction collaboration platform to manage a project is, of course, the reduced reliance on conventional paper-based communications. The UK’s Royal Mail is currently enduring its second 48-hour strike, so anything sent by post is going to be hugely delayed. Email and other electronic forms of communication have already taken a lot …

AEC, LABC, Submit-a-Plan, UK

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Oct 04 2007

IT and sustainable construction – 2

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Future, Internet, People issues, Sustainability
4 October 2007

While I was writing yesterday’s post, an email discussion about the Draft Strategy had begun among Constructing Excellence ‘s Collaborative Working Champions (of which I am one of the latest tranche). I volunteered to start work on a paper to form part of a collective response to the consultation document (we have until 30 November …

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Oct 03 2007

IT and sustainable construction

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, ROI/benefits, Sustainability, Vendors
3 October 2007

On 16 October, I am speaking at the EMCBE Expo 2007 Construction Conference at Rockingham in Northamptonshire, on the theme of Sustainability: the IT contribution. This regional event includes a presentation regarding the UK government’s “Draft Strategy for Sustainable Construction”, and in prepararing my contribution, I had a look through the document to see what it …

BIW Technologies, Cadweb, collaboration, Construction, EMCBE, ePin, Expo 2007, sustainability, Union Square

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Oct 02 2007

Collaboration vendors on awards trail

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
2 October 2007

Last Friday, I was honoured to present the ‘Integration and Collaborative Working’ award – sponsored by BIW [my employer] – at the Constructing Excellence London and South-east England awards dinner, held in central London. The winner, by the way, was the Dartford Team (including the Highways Agency, Costain, Jacobs and Mouchel Parkman) for the A2/A282 junction improvement …

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Sep 27 2007

Asite stops the rot

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
27 September 2007

After three years of gradually dwindling turnover, UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor Asite looks like it has started to reverse the decline, mainly due to healthy revenues earned in the Middle East. Today’s Stock Exchange announcement of its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2007 show gross revenues up 19% to £0.854m (from …

4Projects, Aconex, AEC, Asite, BIW Technologies, Cadweb, collaboration, Construction, extranet, NCCTP, Sarcophagus, UAE, UK
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Sep 24 2007

NEC case study in “Building”

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Legal, People issues, Vendors
24 September 2007

Last week I mentioned the NCCTP supplement to Building magazine (published Friday 14 September). After a slight delay due to technical problems, the whole supplement is now viewable online. I noticed a small coincidence between the supplement and the main magazine. The latter included a lengthy piece by Davis Langdon‘s Simon Rawlinson: “Procurement – Target …

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Sep 20 2007

NCCTP at Constructing Excellence members’ convention

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Marketing, Vendors
20 September 2007

The NCCTP was introduced as the latest membership forum within Constructing Excellence at yesterday’s Members’ Convention in London (see post), and half the NCCTP members were represented by staff at the event (4Projects, Aconex [no fewer than five of their people!], Asite and BIW). I also had a long chat with Karl Williams of the …

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Sep 17 2007

Novedge interview

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Books, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, People issues
17 September 2007

I was flattered last week to be interviewed by Franco Folini of the Novedge blog, keen to know my thoughts about how construction collaboration technologies might be employed on AEC projects in the future and examine some of the issues affecting adoption. The finished interview is now online here.

collaboration, Construction, extranets, Franco Folini, Novedge

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Sep 14 2007

NCCTP now part of Constructing Excellence

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
14 September 2007

The UK-based ‘extranet’ vendors trade association, the Network for Construction Collaboration Technology Providers (NCCTP), is now a membership forum within Constructing Excellence, the only UK membership organisation bringing together businesses from every part of the AEC supply chain (see press release). The first major sign of the new arrangement has been the publication of a 20-page …