Category: Functionality

May 30 2008

Proto-building, to BIM is to build

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, SaaS
30 May 2008

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 …

AECbytes, BIM 1.0, BIM 2.0, BIM 3.0, CAD, interoperability, Jerry Laiserin, John Tobin, Lachmi Khemlani, Proto-building
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May 30 2008

Busy week at Bentley

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Sustainability, Vendors
30 May 2008

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)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues
27 May 2008

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 23 2008

BuildLondonLive – update

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, SaaS, Sustainability
23 May 2008

The BuildLondonLive event I mentioned last week is taking shape. I’ve just had an email from Nick Nisbet saying this latest BIMStorm project’s website now features “a great movie” and some information about the target site (judging from the images, it looks like it’s a riverside site between Greenwich Peninsula and the Thames Barrier – …

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May 22 2008

3D anyone?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Sustainability
22 May 2008

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 …

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May 22 2008

Projectcentre – an update

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, SaaS, Vendors
22 May 2008

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 19 2008

Testing Flock blog tool

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Functionality, Internet
19 May 2008

For some months, I have been a happy user of Microsoft’s Live Writer as an offline blogging tool and have been using the Flock browser. Now – and partly because fellow blogger Phil Clark at ZeroChampion has become a Flock user – I have started investigating how well Flock’s built-in editing tool works with my …

blogging, Delicious, Facebook, Flock browser, Live Writer, Microsoft, RSS, Twitter
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May 15 2008

RIBA CPD events

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
15 May 2008

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 …

architects, Birmingham, collaboration, Constructing Excellence, Construction, CPD, IT Construction Forum, Knutsford, RIBA, Royal Institute of British Architects

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May 15 2008

BuildingSMART 2008 conference programme revealed

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Legal, People issues, Sustainability
15 May 2008

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

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Vendors
14 May 2008

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 …