Interested in 3D? My friend Martin Brown (iSite) will be participating in 3DCamp, an event in Limerick this weekend: "a themed Barcamp which will focus on virtual worlds (Second Life, the Metaverse), mirror worlds (Google Earth and Virtual Earth), mapping mashups, GPS, Location based Services (LBSs), haptics (eg. Wiimote hacks), 3D modelling (Blender, Sketchup) and …
Category: Collaboration
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May 22 2008
Projectcentre – an update
Following my post on ProjectCentre.net, I am very grateful to Jodie Miners at ProjectCentre for providing more background on the business and its core solution, including a painful reminder of the old paper-based days - read her comments here.
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May 20 2008
CTSpace website taking shape
As mentioned last week, the new CTSpace website is taking shape, adopting the ‘look and feel’ of the parent Sword Group website, and with a new CTSpace logo incorporating the words “A Sword Group Company”. It’s a good-looking site – I like the animated photographs on the home page. CTSpace claims 135,000 users (though this …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2008/05/ctspace-websi-1/
May 19 2008
Asite non-exec steps down
Mathew Riley, a non-executive director of UK construction collaboration technology vendor Asite “will be stepping down from the Board of Asite with immediate effect”. According to the London Stock Exchange announcement, the Asite board do not currently plan to appoint another non-executive director to take his place. According to the Asite website, Riley is (or at least was) “Commercial Director for …
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May 16 2008
Tender points
Reading the latest construction weeklies, Construction News has a column (not yet online) from Neil Jarrett of the Collaborative Working Centre explaining how collaborative working will address the problem of bid-rigging, advocating open book cost management (to give greater visibility of real costs and make it difficult for contractors to benefit from collusion) and frameworks (to …
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May 16 2008
The Hard Way
Joint Aconex MD Leigh Jasper has been interviewed by Jodie O’Keefe for the April/May issue of Australian Anthill magazine (a magazine focused on fast-growth companies). The feature, The Hard Way, says Aconex “now employs over 300 people servicing 4,950 projects in 65 countries” (including Romania). Considering Aconex has still yet to conclude a lengthy legal dispute …
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May 15 2008
Downsizing at Constructing Excellence?
I have just received a members e-bulletin from UK construction membership organisation Constructing Excellence that has set alarm bells ringing. Headed “Constructing Excellence announces restructuring“, it says: Constructing Excellence has announced an organisational restructure to enable a sharper focus on its core business of delivering value to its membership. Over the last two years, Constructing …
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May 15 2008
RIBA CPD events
I am presenting at two events next week. On Wednesday morning, 21 May 2008, I will be in Knutsford, Cheshire talking about construction collaboration technologies to architects from the northwest group of the Royal Institute of British Architects – part of a Continuous Professional Development (CPD) event organised in conjunction with Constructing Excellence‘s IT Construction Forum …
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May 15 2008
BuildingSMART 2008 conference programme revealed
The programme for the 2008 London international BuildingSMART conference has been published. The one-day event – enticingly (ha, ha!) entitled “The STAND-INN Route to Sustainability and Value for Money in Construction and FM using BIM/IFCs” – is to be held again at the RIBA in London, on Wednesday 25 June. The day includes: sessions on …
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May 14 2008
Future of the NCCTP – update
Representatives of 4Projects, Aconex, BIW (me!), Business Collaborator, Causeway and Sarcophagus met today in the upstairs room of a pub (fittingly, perhaps, The Phoenix) in London’s Victoria to discuss the future of the NCCTP, the UK construction collaboration technology providers association. It was a lively session, due in no small part to the talents of facilitator …
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