Category: Functionality

Nov 01 2006

US: Trimble buys Meridian Project Systems

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
1 November 2006

Latest collaboration news from the USA concerns the acquisition in an all-cash deal (terms not disclosed) of leading project management software business Meridian Project Systems by GPS and mobile IT systems specialist Trimble – the latter’s seventh acquisition of 2006 (says AECnews.com). Trimble has been assembling a suite of software, hardware and services with the …

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Oct 31 2006

IE7/DWF viewer bug hotfix issued

By Paul Wilkinson in Functionality, Internet
31 October 2006

The bug in Autodesk’s DWF viewer products that prevented them being used in conjunction with the Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 browser (see previous posts) has been fixed, via an Autodesk "hotfix" (get more details at AECnews.com).

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Oct 30 2006

BuildOnline statistics

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors
30 October 2006

Thanks to a software review in the latest (November 2006) issue of Project Manager Today, we learn that UK AEC vendor BuildOnline: "markets a ‘project extranet’ hosted Web system, that has 8,000 customers and 1,300 projects and programmes currently on the go, with 43,000 users; all in the construction industry. … there are currently 3.7 …

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Oct 27 2006

CE Avanti – ICT or not ICT?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet
27 October 2006

The Avanti initiative is now part of the portfolio of initiatives managed by Constructing Excellence. The branding is a bit confusing. On the one hand, the logo subheading says "ICT-enabled collaborative working", leading one to think that there is some technological foundation, but the latest glossy brochure I have (distributed at a Building & Estates …

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Oct 24 2006

IE7/DWF viewer bug fix imminent

By Paul Wilkinson in Functionality, Internet
24 October 2006

Apparently, the Autodesk DWF bug relating to Internet Explorer 7 (see 20 October post) is about to be fixed. A CNetnews.com report says Autodesk is to release a patch for Autodesk Design Review 2007 and Autodesk DWF Viewer 7.0 later this week – ahead of a service pack release planned for 7 November.

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Oct 24 2006

BIM – Asite targets US

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
24 October 2006

Earlier this month, UK-based collaboration vendor Asite announced that it planned to release a collaborative BIM product (see 10 October post). It has just issued a further press release saying it will be announcing (again) the “forthcoming release of Asite Collaborative BIM at the Building SMART Week Conference” in Washington DC next week. BuildingSMART is the recent preferred …

Asite, BIM, BuildingSMART, collaboration, Construction, extranet, IAI, IFC, UK
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Oct 24 2006

BIM – some background reading

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Future, Internet
24 October 2006

Are all your construction contacts clamouring to switch to BIM (building information modelling)? No. Neither are mine. However, there is certainly growing interest in what BIM might have to offer, and over the last few days I have found myself reading more about it. For example: On AEC Cadalyst, I read a great article by US-based …

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Oct 20 2006

TeamDWF.com highlights IE7/viewer incompatability

By Paul Wilkinson in Functionality, Internet
20 October 2006

TeamDWF‘s headline story, Internet Explorer 7 Will Break DWF & DWG Viewers, highlights a potential problem whereby users of the new Microsoft browser (see BBC story) could find that it breaks Autodesk DWF Viewer, Autodesk Design Review, and Autodesk DWG TrueView. The problem arises because these applications use HTML as part of their menu interfaces, …

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Oct 12 2006

CJ Construction Industry Awards 2006

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, ROI/benefits, Vendors
12 October 2006

I have just skimmed through a supplement to this week’s UK trade magazine Contract Journal covering its annual awards event. Working in IT, I turned first to the IT Award page. This year’s winner was the BAA T5 project at London Heathrow Airport, rewarded for its 3D single model environment. Shortlisted in the same category …

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Oct 10 2006

Asite’s “major new developments”

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors
10 October 2006

Asite’s website has revealed the “major new development” announced at last week’s half-day conference (see previous post). It was two ‘new’ products: Asite Workspace and Asite Building Information Model (BIM). Asite Workspace is described in Asite’s press release as: “an entry level collaboration tool, addressing the concerns of the industry highlighted by the 2006 NCCTP …