Category: AEC

Oct 14 2010

CAD in the cloud – needs selling on the ground

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
14 October 2010

Software-as-a-Service approaches to design in the AEC market can learn a lot from how SaaS has been deployed to provide construction collaborative platforms since the late 1990s, but the marketing challenges still tend to require more than just an online presence. CAD in the cloud Thanks, once again, to Roopinder Tara’s, CAD CAM CAE TenLinks …

4Projects, Aconex, AEC, Autodesk, Bernard Charlès, BIMaaS, BIW, CAD, CADaaS, Catia, cloud, construction collaboration, Dassault Systèmes, design, Develop3D.com, Enovia, hosting regime, marketing, Martyn Day, PLM, Roopinder Tara, SaaS, sales, self-service, Software-as-a-Service, SolidWorks, TenLinks Daily, Woobius

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Oct 05 2010

HP ePrint & Share – a follow-up

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
5 October 2010

Further to yesterday’s post about HP ePrint & Share, I have now received a response from product manager Iolanda Montserrat (right), so I can shed a little more light on this cloud service’s capabilities. Email notifications – As regular readers will know, I like services which can be managed online without (m)any emails – perhaps …

Archetype, drawing registers, email notifications, ePrint & Share, file formats, following the sun, Hewlett Packard, HP, Iolanda Montserrat, offshore outsourcing, practice management, SMEs, tagging, Union Square, version control, Workspace

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Oct 04 2010

Collaborate – via your printer

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
4 October 2010

Hewlett-Packard has rarely featured in ExtranetEvolution.com – which is hardly surprising as HP is mainly known in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) circles as a provider of print hardware solutions, not collaborative software applications. Indeed, I learned last week that there are now around 1.5 million HP DesignJet large format printers in use, and that …

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Sep 27 2010

KA Connect 2011

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors
27 September 2010

Having recently registered to attend ICT4Construction on 28 October (post) – the first construction collaboration-specific conference in the UK, I think, since the NCCTP conference in November 2005 (post) – I have just received notification of a similar event in the USA. As a follow-up to the KA Connect AEC knowledge and information management event …

AEC, Axomic, blue sky, break-outs, California, Chicago, Chris Parsons, Deltek, KA Connect, knowledge management, Newforma, panel discussions, Pecha Kucha, San Francisco

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Sep 27 2010

Keep taking the tablets

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors
27 September 2010

I recently talked to Building magazine’s Stephen Kennett about use of mobile devices such as Apple’s iPad in the construction industry and providing some pointers on who else he might talk to. The resulting article, Keep Taking the Tablets (paywall site: subscription normally required) was published last week (I get a couple of mentions – …

Android, Apple, BIW, building information model, Building magazine, Buro Happold, Colin Smith, Construction, construction collaboration, defects management, goBIM, Ian Keough, iPad, mobile, operating systems, Stephen Kennett, Woobius Eye

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Sep 27 2010

Does “industry leadership” matter?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors, Web 2.0
27 September 2010

I was reading comments on LinkedIn about a Pauley Creative blog post by Pritesh Patel (5 reasons why construction companies should be blogging); in the comments, Pritesh argues too many firms make unsubstantiated claims about being market leading, etc, without proving their leadership. A quick look at the websites of several of the longest-established UK-based …

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Sep 23 2010

Yechte Consulting: managing offshore design costs

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
23 September 2010

Earlier this week at the RIBA in London I had coffee with Ben Tellin, a trained architect and managing director of Yechte Consulting. His company, with bases in London and Bangalore, India, provides off-shore outsourcing services to architects and engineers (often adding an international dimension to the network of people already collaborating on a UK …

3D visualisation, architect, Bangalore, Ben Tillman, BIM, blog, CAD, construction collaboration technologies, culture, DocStoc, engineers, Facebook, globalisation, Google Talk, Groupspaces, India, integration, LinkedIn, London, offshore outsourcing, open-source, people, practice management, process, project management, recession, RIBA, Skype, SMEs, Software-as-a-Service, Twitter, Yechte Consulting
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Sep 23 2010

BIW pushes its low-risk message

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
23 September 2010

A (rare) tweet from BIW Technologies* alerted me to a new article on the UK construction collaboration vendor’s website, reproduced from Architect Builder Contractor & Developer (ABC&D). In Controlling Project Outcomes, BIW CEO Colin Smith warns potential collaboration customers about “low-cost suppliers who fail to include sufficient support for the solution that they provide”. He …

ABC&D, Aconex, AEC, Architect Builder Cont ractor & Developer, architecture, Bentley, BIW Technologies, blog, Bob Leung, Cadac, Cadalyst, Clouds UK, Colaab, Colin Smith, Collabor8-online, Construction, construction collaboration, drop.io, e-Grou, Engineering, FileGenius, Glasscubes, Incite Toolbox, low-cost suppliers, project collaboration, rationalisation, recession, Rob Phillpot, SaaS, SharePoint, ShowDocument, Twitter, UK, Woobius
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Sep 22 2010

Union Square acquires Archetype

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Vendors
22 September 2010

I recently read about a series of Autumn Cloud Computing events that Nottingham-based Union Square Software is organising. The series starts at the RIBA in London on 13 October with a seminar entitled Maximising Profit – Project Accounting For Professionals, Union Square having added project accounting to its Workspace product earlier this year (post). The …

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Sep 16 2010

Construction Computing Awards 2010 voting begins

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
16 September 2010

Voting for the 2010 Construction Computing Awards has opened, with 20 of the 24 categories to be decided by online votes, and four to be decided by a panel of judges – something of a departure from previous years’ practice. Of course, you’ve got to be in it to win it, and there are some …