Category: BIM

Oct 30 2014

Aconex upgrades BIM capabilities

Aconex has launched a ‘Connected BIM’ product, and a new Digital Manuals capability (but only if you are on Windows). Away from the continuing repercussions of the ‘tepid’ and therefore cancelled or postponed IPO (post), Melbourne, Australia-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology provider Aconex has launched Aconex Connected BIM, a new product extending the Aconex platform to …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2014/10/aconex-upgrades-bim-capabilities/

Oct 29 2014

Bentley Year in Infrastructure 2014

As well as this week’s COMIT/Fiatech two-day conference (post), I am also attending next week’s Year in Infrastructure 2014 conference, 4-6 November in central London, at the invitation of Bentley Systems (readers may have noticed a small ad for the event in my sidebar for the past two months). I was a juror in the BE …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2014/10/bentley-year-in-infrastructure-2014/

Oct 17 2014

Why the UK BIM toolkit is a key building block

Richard Waterhouse

The BIM ‘Digital toolkit’ should help UK firms, including SaaS vendors, adopt and then export BIM skills, practices, procedures and standards and apply them in other markets. Just as sustainability saw an explosion in ‘greenwash’ – sometimes spurious claims about the ‘greenness’ of various products or services – so building information modelling has seen frequent …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2014/10/why-the-uk-bim-toolkit-is-a-key-building-block/

Oct 14 2014

More on Newforma’s SmartUse acquisition

I met up with Newforma CEO Ian Howell in London on Friday (10 October) and asked about the recent SmartUse acquisition (see post). From his perspective, the deal was the next stage in Newforma’s “mobile-first strategy,” building on previous deals (2012) to add mobile and cloud-based capabilities to the Newforma portfolio, while satisfying the company’s VC …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2014/10/more-on-newformas-smartuse-acquisition/

Oct 10 2014

4Projects reports record revenues

UK vendor turnover

4Projects turnover in 2013 reached £6.351m. The SaaS vendor reported its seventh straight £1m-plus profit, and sees BIM as a key to sustained future growth. Newcastle, UK-based SaaS construction collaboration technology develop 4Projects, since February 2013 a subsidiary of US ERP vendor Viewpoint, has reported record turnover for the year ending 31 December 2013. It …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2014/10/4projects-reports-record-revenues/

Oct 09 2014

A BIM boom for SaaS collaboration vendors?

Will there be a BIM benefit for the SaaS collaboration vendors? Yes, but it will happen gradually both in the UK and internationally, and then grow bigger as more owners require ILM services. Within UK construction IT, building information modelling (BIM) is the hot topic. Even construction software businesses that previously thought it was irrelevant (I’ve …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2014/10/a-bim-boom-for-saas-collaboration-vendors/

Oct 06 2014

Sitedesk targets mobile BIM market

Sitedesk logo

Sitedesk is a new name in the BIM and collaboration world, marketing a mobile solution that has just been adopted for a Balfour Beatty coastal defence project. Wyre Council in Lancashire has selected collaboration technology from a Manchester-based company Sitedesk to support Level 2 building information modelling (BIM) during a five-year contract to construct and …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2014/10/sitedesk-targeting-mobile-bim-market/

Oct 05 2014

Nemetscheck nets Bluebeam for $100m

Nemetschek logo

Nemetschek, the Munich, Germany-based software group which includes Allplan, Vectorworks, Graphisoft, SCIA and Maxon, has announced that it is acquiring the US business Bluebeam Software, a provider of PDF-based collaboration solutions for architecture, engineering and construction professionals, for $100 million, creating a portfolio offering both BIM authoring and drawing-based workflow solutions. Richard Lee, CEO of Bluebeam …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2014/10/nemetscheck-nets-bluebeam-for-100m/

Sep 26 2014

COMIT combining forces with Fiatech

Earlier this year, I attended and spoke at the first European summit of Fiatech, the US-based but now increasingly international body focused on development and adoption of innovative practices and technologies to deliver business value throughout the life cycle of capital assets. The organisation is also closely aligned with the UK-based COMIT group, and next month the two will …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2014/09/comit-combining-forces-with-fiatech/

Sep 09 2014

GTeam added to Trimble Buildings portfolio

Trimble logo

Trimble has made another significant move, acquiring (for an undisclosed amount) the software business Gehry Technologies (GT), the software and consulting services business that has been key to cost-effectively delivering US-based architect Frank Gehry’s ground-breaking designs (also, last month, Trimble announced it had acquired London-based FM software developer Manhattan Software). In April 2012, industry watchers were surprised when …

Continue reading

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2014/09/gteam-added-to-trimble-buildings-portfolio/

Load more