Category: Collaboration

Oct 18 2007

Synchro secures funding

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, People issues
18 October 2007

Following on from my Bricsnet post about fundraising, I see that former Asite CEO Tom Dengenis is in the news again, as CEO of Synchro Ltd, which has just raised £1.2m in a fundraising round led by Catapult Venture Managers.

AEC, Synchro, Tom Dengenis, UK

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Oct 18 2007

Bricsnet raises $13m

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, SaaS, Vendors
18 October 2007

US AEC and property solutions vendor Bricsnet has announced that “existing investors have approved implementation of a $13 million capital investment plan” (reports AECcafe.com). According to its news release, Bricsnet intends “to use the funds to enhance product development and services, and to extend its leadership in the growing market for retail, corporate and public sector …

AEC, Bricsnet, Constructeo, construction collaboration, extranet, extranet vendor, IPO, US
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Oct 17 2007

IT and sustainable construction – 3

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, Sustainability
17 October 2007

I spoke at yesterday’s EMCBE Expo 2007 Construction Conference in Rockingham, Northamptonshire, on the theme of Sustainability: the IT contribution (see previous post). Due to time constraints (more about that in a moment), I couldn’t use all the material I intended. I had brought with me a press cutting from Sunday’s Observer newspaper of this …

BIW Technologies, collaboration, Construction, EMCBE, Expo 2007, Observer, paper, sustainability

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Oct 12 2007

Email or extranet?

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
12 October 2007

Despite the protestations of some Crackberry addicts who can’t leave their email alone, extranets are a far better way for people to collaborate on documents online. Rick Mosenkis of Trichys Workzone clearly shares the same view: read his The Email Alternative: Using An Extranet For Online Document Sharing. (I especially liked his point: “With an …

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Oct 10 2007

Extranet Evolution: two years old

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing
10 October 2007

The Extranet Evolution blog is now just over two years old. Just over a year ago, I noted that June 2006 had been my first year’s peak month with 2,069 page-loads by 1,049 unique visitors (totals marginally exceeded in September 2006: 2,122 and 1,282 respectively). Over the past year, traffic has risen further – every month …

blog, ExtranetEvolution, Statcounter.com, statistics

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Oct 10 2007

Collaboration vendors on awards trail – 2

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
10 October 2007

Just over a week since my post mentioning the second running of the Construction Computing Awards 2007, I have just received an email from the organisers saying that online voting for the shortlisted candidates is now under way. Looking at the shortlists from a construction collaboration technology viewpoint, almost every NCCTP member is represented somewhere …

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Oct 09 2007

4Projects 2006 results

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, SaaS, Vendors
9 October 2007

Keeping my records up-to-date, I checked on the financial results of UK construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects for the year ending 31 March 2006 at Companies House. It seems I was a little over-optimistic about my April 2007 guess-timate for its performance…. Instead of reaching £2.7m turnover, it managed £2.291m, up 10% from its 2005 …

4Projects, AEC, BIW Technologies, Business Collaborator, collaboration, Construction, CTSpace, Leighton, UK
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Oct 08 2007

Beat the post strike – collaborate online

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Internet, Marketing
8 October 2007

One benefit of using a construction collaboration platform to manage a project is, of course, the reduced reliance on conventional paper-based communications. The UK’s Royal Mail is currently enduring its second 48-hour strike, so anything sent by post is going to be hugely delayed. Email and other electronic forms of communication have already taken a lot …

AEC, LABC, Submit-a-Plan, UK

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Oct 04 2007

IT and sustainable construction – 2

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Future, Internet, People issues, Sustainability
4 October 2007

While I was writing yesterday’s post, an email discussion about the Draft Strategy had begun among Constructing Excellence ‘s Collaborative Working Champions (of which I am one of the latest tranche). I volunteered to start work on a paper to form part of a collective response to the consultation document (we have until 30 November …

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Oct 03 2007

IT and sustainable construction

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, ROI/benefits, Sustainability, Vendors
3 October 2007

On 16 October, I am speaking at the EMCBE Expo 2007 Construction Conference at Rockingham in Northamptonshire, on the theme of Sustainability: the IT contribution. This regional event includes a presentation regarding the UK government’s “Draft Strategy for Sustainable Construction”, and in prepararing my contribution, I had a look through the document to see what it …