Category: Functionality

May 20 2010

Corecon releases V7

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
20 May 2010

I last wrote about California, US-based SaaS construction software vendor Corecon Technologies almost two years ago (post). In 2008, Corecon’s, er… core business management capabilities were being expanded to include online file storage and collaboration capabilities (though not document markup/red-line or commenting capabilities). At the time, Corecon president Norman Wendl was hoping to launch v7 …

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May 18 2010

Asite’s Spring release

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors
18 May 2010

UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor Asite has released an updated version of its platform. The Spring ’10 release went ‘live’ during the evening of Friday 14 May 2010, meaning all Asite users subsequently had access to new functionality (see PDF), including: Asite’s new cMOB interface (see previous post), including mobile-enabled versions of Asite Site Manager …

Android, Asite, Asite Site Manager, Be2camp, Blackberry, cMob, community forum, construction collaboration technology, Document Manager, Electronic Goods Receipting (GRN), iPhone, Jim McHale, Memoori, mobile, poll, project risks, Safari 4.0.4, search portlet, snagging, UK, web-browser, Windows Mobile, Workspace

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May 04 2010

COBie – the bridge between BIM and collaboration technologies?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, People issues, Vendors
4 May 2010

My previous post, It’s been about collaboration all along, highlighted some emerging similarities between UK and US practices with regard to collaborative working – partly driven (at least in the USA) by the need to rethink industry approaches to management of people and processes as building information modelling (BIM) looms larger on the industry horizon. …

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Apr 28 2010

It’s been about collaboration all along

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, People issues, Vendors
28 April 2010

I have been a member of the UK change organisation Constructing Excellence‘s Collaborative Working Champions for some years. My interest in this area started in the 1990s when I worked in what was then Tarmac (now Carillion) Professional Services and my line manager was Shonagh Hay. She was a member of the Reading Construction Forum …

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Apr 20 2010

Urban Circus

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors, Web 2.0
20 April 2010

Having earlier today written briefly about the virtual world of Second Life (Daden post) and about two Australian companies (All Over Geo post; Tender.ly post), it somehow seems fitting to write about Urban Circus. This Brisbane, Australia company (it also has a UK outpost) proclaims itself to be at “the cutting edge of 3D Virtual …

3D Virtual Reality, Australia, BIM, Brisbane, communication, community, design, Engineering, feedback, images, panoramas, Second Life, Slider Studio, transport, Urban Circus, videos, VR, Web 2.0, web environments, web-browser, YouCanPlan
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Apr 20 2010

More mobile, more Australian

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
20 April 2010

Having just blogged about Australian company Constrex and their Tender.ly application (post), I now find myself writing about another Australian company, All Over Geo, which is developing location-aware mobile solutions for use on-site on construction projects. The first solution is an iPhone app called Foreman’s Mate, aimed at improving safety and increasing productivity, and All …

Aconex, administration, All Over Geo, Android, app, Australia, Benjamin Ranck, BIW Technologies, Blackberry, Canada, Construction, construction collaboration technology, data collection, Foreman's Mate, Incite, iPhone, location-aware, mobile, quality management, safety, UK, US, Windows Mobile 7
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Apr 20 2010

Tender.ly now available as download

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Functionality, Future, SaaS, Vendors
20 April 2010

Just over six months ago, I discovered a one-page website about Tender.ly, web-based software for architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) companies to conduct their tendering for suppliers and subcontractors. Originally pencilled in for late 2009 and then February 2010, the launch date slipped a bit (as with many software projects), but a server version of …

AEC, Amazon S3, architecture, Australia, Constrex, Construction, Engineering, Jason Langenauer, Linux, SaaS, server version, Software-as-a-Service, Sydney, Tender.ly, tendering, web, Windows Server
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Apr 19 2010

CTSpace launches FusionLIVE – end of the road for BuildOnline and Citadon

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
19 April 2010

Catching up with recent announcements in the world of construction collaboration technologies, I see that Sword CTSpace has launched a new Software-as-a-Service application, FusionLive, that looks like it will eventually replace both the BuildOnline and Citadon applications inherited when Sword acquired CTSpace in December 2007 (post). The 7 April news release quotes Gert-Jan de Kieviet, …

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Apr 19 2010

Asite mobile solution launching soon

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors
19 April 2010

Asite‘s Paul Markovits has been blogging about the UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor’s forthcoming mobile solution, Asite cMob. A launch of this looks likely in the next couple of weeks, it seems. This has been on the cards for several months, following a consultation process managed through the Asite community forum late last summer …

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Apr 01 2010

The state of (construction) collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
1 April 2010

I spoke at the Collaboration Cafe symposium held at London’s Building Centre on Tuesday, 30 March. I was third speaker on, following StickyWorld and Slider Studio founder Michael Kohn and Axis Design architect Rob Annable, and my brief from Michael was straightforward: to expand on the blog post, The end of the construction collaboration era?, …