I am spending the afternoon at a CASA conference (sponsored by the AGI) at University College London talking about use of geographic information, which promises lots of talk about mash-ups, re-use of data. 1.45pm: First up, Richard Milton demonstrating GMapCreator and MapTube – applications for publishing data to Google Maps, showing, for example, maps relating …
Category: Collaboration
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Jan 06 2009
Asite chairman steps down
Less than a month after Peter Rogers resigned as a director of UK-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor Asite (see post), the company has announced (via the London Stock Exchange RNS) that Colin Goodall is stepping down as chairman. He is also “resigning from the Board of Asite with immediate effect and … Mr Walter …
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Jan 02 2009
AtomicBIM and UUID
Last February I wrote (here, here and here) about the possibility of CAD applications being delivered as Software-as-a-Service – a concept I called CADaaS. Then, realising that CAD is likely to be superseded eventually by building information modelling (BIM), I updated the concept in June to BIMaaS. Noting along the way posts on the topic …
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Dec 31 2008
Reviewing 2008
Just as I did last year (see Reviewing 2007), I have been looking back at my five predictions for 2008 (see one, two, three, four and five for more detail). 1. Further polarisation of the UK construction collaboration marketplace. I do think the UK market has polarised a little further, though the trend may have …
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Dec 22 2008
PCM acquired by Confluence, KOL gone
Late last month, I wrote about Pettifer Construction (a website holding page now says the “Company has now ceased to trade” and gives contact details for the administrators), its construction management business, PCM [a PR client of mine in the late 1990s] and its specialist IT firm, KnowledgeOnline. There had been a report of interest …
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Dec 19 2008
AfterCAD Joins the SaaS Movement
On Cadalyst.com, Kenneth Wong reviews a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application from Vancouver-based AfterCAD, called AfterCAD Online. Essentially, it is a service for sharing, viewing and commenting on CAD files. Nothing new in that, of course, but this one includes the capacity to display and manipulate 3D files. Publishers of CAD files can sign up for …
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Dec 18 2008
Another Asite director steps down
According to a London Stock Exchange announcement, Peter Rogers (technical director and co-founder of Stanhope Plc) has resigned from the board of UK construction collaboration provider Asite plc with immediate effect. It adds: “An announcement regarding Mr. Rogers’ replacement will be made shortly.” Earlier this year, BAA executive Mathew Riley also resigned as a non-executive …
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Dec 15 2008
Nick Terry
Catching up with the newspapers over the weekend, I read Ruth Slavid’s Guardian obituary of Nick Terry, until 2006 head of Building Design Partnership (BDP), who died on 1 December of cancer aged just 60. I first met Nick when he was part of the team working on the redevelopment of the Royal Opera House …
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Dec 12 2008
Aconex (UK) Ltd – 2007 update
A Companies House filing of report and accounts for Aconex (UK) Ltd, the UK arm of Australia-based construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex, showed that it had a turnover in the year ending 30 June 2007 of £588,035 (up from the previous year’s £325,391). It made a small pre-tax loss of £12,383 – a big improvement …
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Dec 09 2008
Building Web 2.0 awareness
Fellow Be2camp organiser Martin Brown (here) and I (here and here, for example) have both written several recent blog postings about the AEC sector’s adoption of Web 2.0 tools. Martin’s post was also picked up by the US-based Construction Software Review blog (Construction needs to embrace technology, not avoid it, part 6: Web awareness) who …
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