Category: Collaboration

Oct 02 2007

Collaboration vendors on awards trail

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

Last Friday, I was honoured to present the ‘Integration and Collaborative Working’ award – sponsored by BIW [my employer] – at the Constructing Excellence London and South-east England awards dinner, held in central London. The winner, by the way, was the Dartford Team (including the Highways Agency, Costain, Jacobs and Mouchel Parkman) for the A2/A282 junction improvement …

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Sep 27 2007

Asite stops the rot

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
27 September 2007

After three years of gradually dwindling turnover, UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor Asite looks like it has started to reverse the decline, mainly due to healthy revenues earned in the Middle East. Today’s Stock Exchange announcement of its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2007 show gross revenues up 19% to £0.854m (from …

4Projects, Aconex, AEC, Asite, BIW Technologies, Cadweb, collaboration, Construction, extranet, NCCTP, Sarcophagus, UAE, UK
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Sep 24 2007

Aconex court case – date set for October

By Paul Wilkinson in Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Legal, Vendors
24 September 2007

The legal row between Aconex shareholders – Hawthorn Glen Pty Ltd v Aconex Pty Ltd – is set to reach court in Melbourne, Australia on 9 October (see Aconex in Australia shares court row, 22 August 2007). The trial, likely to last around seven days, is likely to have an impact on the running of the fast-growing …

Aconex, Hawthorn Glen, Leigh Jasper, Rob Phillpot

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Sep 24 2007

NEC case study in “Building”

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Legal, People issues, Vendors
24 September 2007

Last week I mentioned the NCCTP supplement to Building magazine (published Friday 14 September). After a slight delay due to technical problems, the whole supplement is now viewable online. I noticed a small coincidence between the supplement and the main magazine. The latter included a lengthy piece by Davis Langdon‘s Simon Rawlinson: “Procurement – Target …

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Sep 20 2007

NCCTP at Constructing Excellence members’ convention

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Marketing, Vendors
20 September 2007

The NCCTP was introduced as the latest membership forum within Constructing Excellence at yesterday’s Members’ Convention in London (see post), and half the NCCTP members were represented by staff at the event (4Projects, Aconex [no fewer than five of their people!], Asite and BIW). I also had a long chat with Karl Williams of the …

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Sep 17 2007

Novedge interview

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Books, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, People issues
17 September 2007

I was flattered last week to be interviewed by Franco Folini of the Novedge blog, keen to know my thoughts about how construction collaboration technologies might be employed on AEC projects in the future and examine some of the issues affecting adoption. The finished interview is now online here.

collaboration, Construction, extranets, Franco Folini, Novedge

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Sep 14 2007

NCCTP now part of Constructing Excellence

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
14 September 2007

The UK-based ‘extranet’ vendors trade association, the Network for Construction Collaboration Technology Providers (NCCTP), is now a membership forum within Constructing Excellence, the only UK membership organisation bringing together businesses from every part of the AEC supply chain (see press release). The first major sign of the new arrangement has been the publication of a 20-page …

AEC, Building magazine, CIRIA, Constructing Excellence, NCCTP, UK
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Sep 14 2007

Aconex 2006 results

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
14 September 2007

Having looked at the financial results of most of the major UK construction collaboration (extranet) vendors over the past few months (for example, Business Collaborator yesterday, StoreData earlier in the month), I realised that I hadn’t really examined Aconex in any detail. Although active in the UK and a member of the NCCTP, Aconex is an …

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Sep 13 2007

A good six months for Business Collaborator

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
13 September 2007

This morning’s London Stock Exchange announcement by Coda of its financial results for the six months ending 30 June 2007 include some snippets about UK collaboration vendor Business Collaborator‘s financial performance in the same period. Business Collaborator turnover was up 18% on 2006 to £1.381m, generating a £240k profit, marginally up on 2006’s £232k. According …

AEC, Business Collaborator, Coda, collaboration, Construction, extranet, Sedex, StoreData, Styles & Wood, UK
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Sep 06 2007

SaaS: the business solution

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, SaaS
6 September 2007

I have been reviewing quite a lot of material recently regarding Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): First, the pros and cons of SaaS as it applies in the construction collaboration market have been debated by NCCTP members for an article to be published in a supplement to UK trade magazine “Building” next week. Second, I received an email …