Category: Collaboration

Jul 10 2008

BIM and housing

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
10 July 2008

On Monday, I had an interesting meeting with Nick Clements of New Zealand-based software vendor Bisco, who plan to “revolutionise building by changing the way information flows through the building industry”. Bisco’s technology can extract information from various generic 3D CAD design models (ArchiCAD, AutoCAD Architecture, Autodesk Revit and – soon – Vectorworks) and then …

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Jul 08 2008

BIW benefits from Gates effect

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Marketing, SaaS
8 July 2008

Sometimes as a public relations professional, you get lucky. This is what happened for me at BIW when we won a project earlier this year to provide the company’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) collaboration platform for the design and construction of the Seattle, WA, headquarters of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the charitable organisation set up …

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Jul 04 2008

Newsletter gives CTSpace update

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
4 July 2008

I have just been forwarded a copy of the latest e-newsletter from construction collaboration vendor CTSpace (a business with an interesting past – see related posts below). The email features an editorial from Gert-Jan de Kieviet, the company’s managing director of its EMEA operation. In it he writes glowingly about the aftermath of last year’s …

construction collaboration, CTSpace, DMS, Eastern Europ, EMC Documentum, EMEA, Enterprise Content Collaboration, France, Germany, Gert-Jan de Kieviet, Interserve, Latvia, London Trams, Morocco, north Africa, Poland, Russia, SaaS, South America, Sword group, UAE, Ukraine, ViaNovus

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Jul 03 2008

A bit of a Web 2.0 day

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Collaboration, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS
3 July 2008

I spent a fair chunk of yesterday looking at and talking about various Web 2.0 applications, mash-ups and events. It was all started by reading an article on the BBC website, Government launches data mash-up. This led me to look at FixMyStreet.com, an officially-sanctioned project from MySociety.org that allows UK residents to report vandalism, abandoned …

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Jul 01 2008

Taywood path to Google email smoothed by SaaS-based collaboration tools

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, SaaS, Vendors
1 July 2008

In UK builder switches email to Google Apps, Phil Wainewright describes how UK contractor Taylor Woodrow has migrated from a conventional in-house hosted email system to Google Apps, a step, he says, that confounds critics who suggest that the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based Google suite is not appropriate for enterprise adoption. I would also go one …

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Jun 27 2008

BIM and sustainability

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Sustainability
27 June 2008

Having spent much of Wednesday (see earlier post) listening to people talk about building information modelling and sustainability, it was timely to get my latest AECbytes with a viewpoint from Scott Boutwell (blog; also previously cited in this blog here) talking about parallels in the increased adoption of pro-sustainability measures and the adoption of BIM …

“what if” scenarios, AECbytes, BIM, BREEAM, building information modelling, BuildingSMART, business intelligence, business model, collaborative workflows, continuous knowledge transfer, environmental performance, Mel Starr, organisational design, portfolio management, SaaS, Scott Boutwell, Software-as-a-Service, sustainability, virtual work groups, visualisation

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Jun 27 2008

Reviewing BuildingSMART 2008

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, Sustainability
27 June 2008

I have now had a couple of days to reflect on Wednesday’s BuildingSMART conference in London (see my live-blog posts here and here). My thoughts…. UK lagging behind – Given that it’s an organisation’s annual event, you would expect a lot of the same people to turn up each year, and there were a lot …

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Jun 25 2008

BuildingSMART conference, part 2

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, Sustainability
25 June 2008

1450pm BST: The afternoon sessions of the BuildingSMART conference kick off with break-out sessions, and I opted for one on creating a market for sustainable buildings – not well-attended but some interesting discussion – with perspectives from Norway and Iceland. Defining sustainable buildings is difficult due to the many different types of buildings – standards …

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Jun 25 2008

BuildingSMART Conference, RIBA, London

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet
25 June 2008

0940am BST: This is the first of (hopefully) several updates from the BuildingSMART one-day conference at the RIBA in London (the main auditorium has wi-fi (hurray!), but few power connections (boo!), but by topping up the battery from time to time, I hope to get by). Only about 40 delegates in the room as the …

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Jun 25 2008

10 years after Egan: BIW survey

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, Internet, People issues, Sustainability
25 June 2008

While Constructing Excellence is currently engaged with an online survey into what benefits (if any) have been experienced as a result of the 1998 Egan Report (see post) – BIW Technologies [my employer] has been doing the same, but via a telephone survey. The results are being published this week – and have already been …