Category: Functionality

Dec 17 2007

Web conferencing and sustainability

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Books, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, People issues, Sustainability
17 December 2007

Two-and-a-half years ago, when I was putting the finishing touches to the final chapter of my book manuscript, I sketched out ideas of how web-based conferencing solutions might be used to replace some face-to-face meetings in construction projects. At the time, I focused on the convenience aspect of such ‘net meetings’ and their value alongside …

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Dec 13 2007

Collaboration: standards, viewing, plus industry education

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Legal, People issues, SaaS
13 December 2007

Lachmi Khemlani, founder and editor of AECbytes, recently attended an AIA conference in the US, and her latest AECbytes newsletter describes some interesting sessions, including ones on business processes, automated code checking, digital project workflows and cooperative design. To give you a flavour, I’ve picked out a couple of items. Business processes The business process …

AECbytes, AIA, ASP, Cannon Design, Constructware, Crate & Barrel, eBuilder, Integrated Project Delivery, interoperability, Lachmi Khemlani, Meridian, NCCTP, Primavera, SaaS
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Dec 12 2007

Collaborative processes help US industry respond to growth pressures

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, People issues, ROI/benefits
12 December 2007

FMI and the Construction Management Association of America (CMAA) have released their Eighth Annual Survey of Owners. Based on over 200 responses from a variety of owner types and industries, the survey has both good news and bad news for construction IT. Building information modelling (BIM) technologies are increasingly used, but there is also …

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Dec 05 2007

Share and share alike

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, SaaS, Vendors
5 December 2007

Jerry Laiserin ‘s latest AEC Insight column at Cadalyst usefully segments the US market for online plan rooms and what he calls project collaboration networks (PCNs) – ie: construction collaboration technologies as they are described in the UK – as in NCCTP, for example. In Share and share alike (which, in passing, rightly describes the …

4Projects, Adobe, Asite, Attolist, BIM, BIW Technologies, Buzzsaw, Cadalyst, Causeway Technologies, Constructing Excellence, construction collaboration technologies, Constructware, CTSpace, e-Builder, Expesite, extranet, FTP, Jerry Laiserin, NCCTP, Newforma, online plan room, PCN, ProjectWise, SharePoint, US, WebArchives

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Dec 05 2007

Drowning in information…

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, Sustainability
5 December 2007

Writing my paper on ICT and sustainable construction last week, I would have liked a quotation I found in Monday’s Guardian newspaper, where the Media section was edited by guest editor Vint Cerf, ‘architect of the internet’. Cerf asked several influential internet gurus to “Tell me the future” and Peter Norvig, director of research at …

Google, Guardian, information, knowledge, Peter Norvig, Rutherford Rogers, tuna, Vint Cerf

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Dec 03 2007

Google to target collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
3 December 2007

Over two years ago, I first wrote about the JotSpot collaboration tool; 13 months ago, I noted that JotSpot had been acquired by Google. Today, via TechCrunch‘s Michael Arrington, I have been reading about Google’s 2008 plans for Google apps, and it appears Google is planning to deliver collaboration tools based on the JotSpot technologies that “will …

Google, Google Sites, JotSpot, TechCrunch, wiki
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Nov 23 2007

Take-up of BIM growing

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues
23 November 2007

An article in US journal Building Design & Construction reports that US adoption of building information modelling (BIM) applications is accelerating (thanks to Mel at the Elemental blog for the link). More than a third of roughly 200 owners (collectively representing c.$115 billion in annual construction spending) responding to the 8th Annual Construction Management Association …

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Nov 22 2007

IT at the heart of collaborative working

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, People issues
22 November 2007

Earlier this year, the NCCTP became a membership forum within Constructing Excellence. Chief Executive Don Ward was enthusiastic about the move at the time, and has since started to preach the virtues of IT in supporting collaborative working. He recently wrote an article “The common touch” in the November/December issue of RICS’ Construction Journal, where …

Constructing Excellence, Construction Journal, Don Ward, NCCTP, RICS

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Nov 22 2007

Avanti SMP in new draft BS1192

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Future, Internet
22 November 2007

The Construction Computing no-Show at least saw me meet up with a few friends gathered over a decade of involvement with construction IT (among them, one of the pioneers of online collaboration, Ray Crotty of C3 Systems, and Marek Suchocki, formerly at Atkins, now at Mouchel). Mervyn Richards also strolled by, and gave me an update on progress since …

Avanti, BS1192, SMP

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Nov 08 2007

Laiserin’s latest lucid column

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Legal, People issues
8 November 2007

My previous post (Integrated Project Delivery – US guide) talks repeatedly about Building Information Modelling (BIM). For readers interested in learning more about BIM as a process – as distinct from a set of technologies – I recommend Jerry Laiserin’s latest AEC Insight Column at Cadalyst (To BIMfinity and beyond!).