Oct 16 2012
Having run three previous editions of Build London Live (in 2008, 2009 and 2012), organisers Asite, AEC3 and buildingSMART are now planning another two-day virtual design competition, this time in Qatar, running from Tuesday 27 November 27th 2012 to finish at noon on Thursday 29 November. Once again, building information modelling practitioners from around the world are invited to demonstrate their …
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Oct 15 2012
According to a news release from neXadyne, the Training Accreditation Council in Western Australia has granted approval for neXadyne Pty Ltd to operate as a Registered Training Organisation (RTO). This follows the launch of the company’s document control courses in February 2012 (post) – an area where SaaS document collaboration vendor Aconex is also active …
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Oct 10 2012
Some six months after I talked to McLaren Software about its dual offering of SaaS and on-premise engineering document management platforms (post), the London-based vendor has announced a third option: McLaren Enterprise OnAir, a private cloud-hosted solution. Complementing the company’s existing SaaS offering, FusionLive, this development means its McLaren Enterprise engineering document control suite (aimed at …
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Oct 08 2012
In 1987, actress Maureen Lipman famously said: “You get an ology, you’re a scientist,” in a TV advertisement for British Telecom, and I was reminded of this last week. I had been invited to the London launch, by Styles & Wood’s UK-based IT subsidiary, iSite, of ‘The Hub,’ an application of its web-based property information platform to …
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Oct 04 2012
Sydney, Australia-based SaaS construction software developer ProjectCentre has been acquired for an undisclosed sum by the German technical ERP and BIM software business RIB Software AG. The announcement was made on Sunday 30 September, and is RIB’s second acquisition in under a month. RIB expanding through M&A On 11 September RIB announced the purchase (also for an …
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Oct 03 2012
California-based construction estimating, collaboration and project management software vendor Corecon Technologies has unveiled updates to its web-based Corecon V7 platform (launched in May 2010). The enhancements provide further mobile access options and integration with other popular tools including QuickBooks, Microsoft Office, Sage Simply Accounting and SAP Business One. Corecon V7 is now compatible with Google Chrome and Apple …
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Sep 24 2012
Reprographic hardware corporation HP launched its SaaS-based cloud storage service, ePrint & Share nearly two years ago (post), and has continued to market itself to UK users ever since (I wrote about its Android app launch in May 2012). I was invited to a launch event at the RIBA in London today (24 September), where it announced: “the …
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Sep 19 2012
The latest conject e-newsletter hit my in-box yesterday, including news of the final post-acquisition transition of the SaaS collaboration vendor from BIW Technologies to conject branding (mentioned yesterday), its nominations in the Be2Awards (post) and Construction Computing Awards (post), and its sponsorship of Constructing Excellence‘s Awards. Trading update The e-newsletter also talks about recent trading, …
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Sep 18 2012
The shortlists for the 2012 Construction Computing Awards have been published, and reveal many familiar names vying for “Hammers” across equally familiar ranges of sometimes overlapping categories. Voting for the awards is now open (and will remain open until 8 November), the winners will be announced at a London event on 22 November, and London-based …
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Aug 30 2012
The Styles & Wood UK-based IT subsidiary, iSite, which “provides clients with technology based property information solutions that store, manage and communicate critical data relating to their property portfolio and associated property activities,” has seen revenues drop in the first six months of 2012, compared to the same period in 2011. An interim report from …
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