The latest Autodesk UK press release claims an independent survey it commissioned reveals that IT – and construction collaboration technologies, in particular – will be the key to the success of the UK house-building industry (a sector currently plagued by a host of uncertainties, not least a dramatic drop in demand – see Brian Green’s …
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Jun 04 2008
Greener Than Thou
CAD Insider Roopinder Tara attended last week’s Bentley bonanza in Baltimore (see my post) and, in a post Greener than Thou, has been wondering about how green a CAD company can be when, after all, its design software will be used to create edifices consuming large amounts of natural resources. Bentley’s Joe Croser told him …
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Jun 02 2008
Adobe starts community drive too
Last week we saw Bentley Systems establish an online BE community (see post); this week, it’s the turn of Adobe to expand its collaboration activities still further. Webware‘s Elsa Wenzel – see Adobe Acrobat takes big online leap – says “Adobe unveiled an online community Monday with a word processor; file storage and sharing; and …
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May 30 2008
Proto-building, to BIM is to build
I have just opened the latest AECbytes newsletter and read a fantastic article by US architect John Tobin. In Proto-building: to BIM is to build, he incorporates a lucid explanation of a famous Magritte painting, lots of talk about interoperability, and some memorable analogies, stretching from CAD on steroids (BIM 1.0) through The Big Bang …
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May 30 2008
Busy week at Bentley
It’s been a busy week on the PR and marketing front at Bentley Systems (at least that’s what my email inbox tells me, with eight emails yesterday alone). Of course, this flurry of announcements was predictable – it coincided with the annual BE Conference in Baltimore – but the event itself has also stimulated some …
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May 27 2008
Egan: 10 years on (again)
It seems hardly a week goes by at the moment without someone talking about what has (or – more likely – hasn't) changed in the UK construction industry in the ten years since Sir John Egan produced his report, Rethinking Construction. A couple of weeks ago, Building magazine produced a depressing feature, “Egan 10 years …
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May 26 2008
Downsizing at Constructing Excellence? – update
After my post 10 days ago about the restructuring of UK AEC pan-industry membership organisation Constructing Excellence, I asked chief executive Don Ward if he would give me a statement on the likely impact of the changes. After an understandable delay while staff briefings and consultations continued last week, Don sent me the following: We …
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May 23 2008
Hawthorn Glen v Aconex – settled out of court
After months of acrimony and several days of expensive court hearings, the case brought by Hawthorn Glen, a major shareholder in Australia-based construction collaboration vendor Aconex, against the company and its joint managing directors Leigh Jasper and Rob Phillpot has been settled out of court. The Federal Court of Australia earlier today made a brief order: …
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May 23 2008
Styles & Wood: MBO dropped
Styles & Wood, UK retail fit-out specialist and parent of online construction collaboration provider Storedata, has issued a trading update, saying that “the Group’s Order Book has fallen behind its expectations”, indicating its targets for the half year ending 30 June 2008 will not be reached, with full year performance likely to be line with that achieved in …
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