Category: AEC

Nov 20 2006

Cimmetry AutoVue for SharePoint 2003

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Vendors
20 November 2006

Not everyone needs the full-blown collaborative capacity of a construction collaboration platform (aka ‘extranet’) to share and collaborate upon design drawings. Particularly when working within organisations, teams can share drawings using a simple Microsoft SharePoint solution, and Cimmetry has just released a version of its AutoVue viewer product for just such an environment. Read the …

AEC, AutoVue, Cimmetry, file viewer, Microsoft, SharePoint

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Nov 17 2006

Styles&Wood – an update

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
17 November 2006

Further to my 8 November post on Styles&Wood, a Tesco insider has been in touch to correct and update my information. He writes: Although our initial implementation was the Union Square Workspace, we have bespoked the system significantly since then (using Styles and Wood developers)….so S&W are becoming more than just re-sellers. However, I was …

4Projects, AEC, Styles&Wood, Tesco, UK, Union Square, Workspace
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Nov 14 2006

BuildOnline and Koral

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
14 November 2006

BuildOnline CEO Mark Suster is running two companies. As well as running the UK-based construction collaboration vendor, Suster is also CEO of California-based Koral. This is an interesting development on two or three levels: first, Koral itself seems an interesting business with a strong Web2.0 content collaboration product; second, I wonder whether this will have an …

AEC, Alfresco, BIW, BuildOnline, construction collaboration, content collaboration, extranet, Koral, Mark Suster, UK, US, vendor
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Nov 09 2006

Adobe ignores extranets?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, People issues, ROI/benefits
9 November 2006

An Adobe survey of 657 US-based AEC professionals undertaken by Harris Interactive (reported by AEC.Cadalyst.com) has found that, despite the advent of electronic means of exchanging project information, paper still remains the most popular form in which to review CAD information. Indeed, paper is even more popular in 2006 than it was when a similar survey was …

Adobe, CAD, collaboration, Construction, extranet, PDF, research, US

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Nov 08 2006

Styles & Wood flotation

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
8 November 2006

Ordinarily, the Stock Exchange flotation of a UK contracting business wouldn’t interest this blog, but the company in question is Styles&Wood (this week’s Contract Journal has a news story on the flotation and dealing in its shares began yesterday). The reason I note the move is that Styles&Wood has an operating division called StoreData, which: …

4Projects, AEC, Asda, BIW, Sainsbury, Sarcophagus, StoreData, Styles&Wood, Tesco, UK, Union Square, Workspace
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Nov 08 2006

BIW’s growth continues – but what about the others?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
8 November 2006

The latest news release from UK construction collaboration vendor BIW Technologies says it has just completed its sixth straight year of growth. Turnover in 2006 (year ending 30 September) reached £4.6m – up from just over £4m in 2005. BIW has always been very open about its performance, regularly publishing news releases, but some of its UK competitors are more …

4Projects, Aconex, AEC, Asite, BIW, BuildOnline, Business Collaborator, Cadweb, Causeway, construction collaboration technologies, ePin, extranet, finances, profit, Sarcophagus, turnover, UK
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Nov 03 2006

“QS News” feature on mobile working

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors
3 November 2006

UK trade magazine QS News has published a feature article written by me: Why ‘I’ always comes before ‘T’. In the article, I argue that providers and users of mobile IT solutions in the construction industry need to focus on ‘whole life information‘ instead of getting hung-up about technology hardware and connectivity issues. The key …

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Nov 03 2006

Now Trimble buys XYZ

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Internet
3 November 2006

Just days after acquiring Meridian Systems (see post), GPS technology developer Trimble has also purchased US technology firm, XYZ Solutions – a provider of real-time, interactive 3D intelligence software to manage the spatial aspects of construction projects.

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Nov 02 2006

John Doyle on collaboration in CJ

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
2 November 2006

UK Contractor John Doyle is the latest firm to feature in trade mag Contract Journal‘s profile series. Asked about the company’s use of project collaboration tools, Julian Brown, information systems manager says: “We regularly engage in various project-specific portals. We use tools such as the market leader BIW when working for Bovis, Asite when working for …

4Projects, AEC, Asite, BIW, Cadweb, construction collaboration technologies, Contract Journal, extranet, John Doyle, NCCTP, UK
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Nov 02 2006

CIRIA changes

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
2 November 2006

Via QSNews, I learnt yesterday that Tim Broyd is to step down as chief executive of CIRIA, and will be succeeded by Bill Healy. Both men have played a role in promoting construction collaboration technologies in the UK, having spoken at extranet conferences and, in Bill’s case, handled the affairs of the CIRIA-hosted NCCTP during …