Category: BIM

Mar 22 2011

Training in collaborative IT

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Collaboration, Marketing, People issues, SaaS
22 March 2011

Judging from the recent activities of some of the leading construction collaboration technology vendors, there seems to be a fair bit of (mainly London-based) training going on at the moment: 4Projects recently announced (14 March) a “new programme of training sessions designed specifically to help our users get the most from our 4Projects collaborative functionality” …

4Projects, Aconex, Asite, BIM, building information modelling, cloud computing, Collaborative IT for construction, construction collaboration technology, document control, Frank Carron, lifecycle management, London, mobile, on-premise, SaaS, training

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Mar 08 2011

Virtual worlds and the built environment

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, Sustainability, Vendors, Web 2.0
8 March 2011

Virtual worlds and the built environment (PDF) is a white paper just published by Birmingham, UK-based Daden Ltd, about whom I’ve written before (post). Having explored Second Life very superficially a couple of years ago when Be2camp was in its infancy, I have watched with interest as Dave Burden and Soulla Stylianou have developed strong …

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Mar 03 2011

A role for resellers?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
3 March 2011

Some construction businesses already function effectively as value-added resellers of SaaS-based collaboration tools, filling a gap left open by traditional software VARs. I have discussed routes to market for SaaS construction collaboration vendors a few times – for example, last September, I contrasted Woobius’s aspirations to sell direct via the web with vendors who have …

APIs, Appbuilder, Asite, BI, BIM, BIW, business intelligence, collaboration, compliance, configuration, construction collaboration technology, contractors, cost control, customisation, e-procurement, expenses management, facilities management, Gleeds, Hunter Richards, IGT, integration, Mace, maintenance, mobile tools, operation, PaaS, Paul Morrell, Platform-as-a-Service, project managers, reprographics, ReproMAX, SaaS, Sage CRE, snagging, SoftwareAdvice.com, training, USA, value-added resellers, VARs, whole-life cost, Woobius
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Feb 27 2011

Immersive design collaboration, with IdentityMine

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Mobile, People issues, Web 2.0
27 February 2011

I have returned from time to time to the perceived shortcomings of online design collaboration insofar as some architects and other designers prefer the intuitive, paper-based processes of marking-up, commenting and sketching on design drawings by hand. Such ‘collaboration’ they say is less easy when they are faced by conventional computer interfaces as opposed to, …

architecture, BIM, building information modelling, built environment, business intelligence, Cereno, collaborative decision-making, Collaborative Working Environment, collaboratory, commenting, Construction, content sharing, CWE, data visualisation, design collaboration, design drawings, device integration, Engineering, Executive Dashboard of the Future, facial recognition, Gen Y, gesture-driven navigation, IdentityMine, Jonah Sterling, marking-up, Microsoft Surface, Millennials, mobile, NUI, NuVa, office design, presence detection, real time, remote collaboration, Second Life, sketching, status, studio design, Surface, tablets, touch-sensitive wall screens, video-conferencing, voice recognition, Web 2.0, XBox Kinect, YouTube

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Dec 04 2010

Design by Many

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Web 2.0
4 December 2010

One of those interesting coincidences…. Yesterday, the Institution of Civil Engineers, with the Advanced Institute of Management, hosted an event, “Engineering Management in a Digital Economy” in London which, despite the wintry weather and the associated transport difficulties, still drew around 40 people from both industry and academia. They assembled to discuss issues such as …

Advanced Institute of Management, AIM Research, Andy Neely, Asite, BIM, BIMstorm, Buckminster Fuller, BuildLondonLive, DesignByMany, Digital Economy, Dymaxion, Engineering Management, GPS, Grimshaw Architects, hashtag, Hewlett Packard, HP DesignJet 111 printer, innovation, Institution of Civil Engineers, London, Ownings & Merrill LLP, Paul Morrell, Snøhetta and Skidmore, Threadless, Twitter, whole-life cost, Wikinomics

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Nov 26 2010

ICT4Construction conference, March 2011 on document and knowledge management

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors
26 November 2010

After attending and live-blogging from the first of Recep Saffet’s series of ICT4Construction conferences last month (post), he has invited me to be one of the speakers at his next event, on document and knowledge management technology, at Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, London on 25 March 2011 (just over a month later than previously noted). …

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Oct 28 2010

Live from ICT4Construction conference, London

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors
28 October 2010

The ICT4Construction conference (post), being held today in London, has attracted representatives from several companies regularly covered in this blog. 4Projects is a sponsor (and Clare Watson is due to speak); Sword CTSpace is the opening speaker, followed by MPS, and Union Square will also be talking; and I am sitting behind Yuval Attias and …

4Projects, Acecad, Aconex, Arup, BEM, building information modelling, BuildOnline, Cadweb, Cimage, Citadon, Clare Watson, Constructing Excellence, construction collaboration, EliteSuite, FIM, Fusion Enterprise, FusionLive, IBM, ICT4Construction, Jon de Souza, MPS, Nigel Woodridge, Paul Morrell, RedSkyIT, Richard Brotherton, Rob Phillpot, Robin Wilkin, Smarter Planet, Strucad, StruWalker, Stuart Bell, Stuart Farmer, Summit, Sword CTSpace, Union Square, Workspace, Yuval Attias
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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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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 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 …