Category: Future

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

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 20 2010

Daden wins!

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Web 2.0
20 April 2010

On 9 March, I wrote (Daden showcases collaborative use of Second Life) about Daden reaching the finals of a major US-based competition to identify cutting edge implementations of Second Life. This Birmingham-based company briefly tweeted about its success, but has now issued a full press release (UK Company wins U.S. Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge), detailing …

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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?, …

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Mar 24 2010

The end of the construction collaboration era?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Marketing, People issues, Vendors, Web 2.0
24 March 2010

[This is a slightly expanded version of an article from my pwcom blog.] I am due to speak next Tuesday, 30 March at the Collaboration Cafe symposium at the Building Centre in London. The event is one of the final contributions to an ongoing research project being undertaken by Slider Studio and funded by …

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Mar 11 2010

Top 10 Construction IT trends

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors, Web 2.0
11 March 2010

This is the original draft of an article I wrote that has just been published in the March 2010 issue of Construction Manager magazine (link to digital edition), alongside a bigger feature looking at the new generation of construction collaboration platforms (including Woobius, Collabor8online and SliderStudio‘s StickyWorld – all of which I’ve recently talked about …

3D, 4Projects, accounting, Aconex, APIs, Apple, archINFORM, Asite, augmented reality, BIM, BIMaaS, BIW, blog, BuildingSMART, Business Collaborator, CAD, CIOB, Collabor8online, construction collaboration, Construction Manager, contracts, CoverItLive, Daden, ERP, Gartner, GPS, internet of things, iPad, iPhone, Latista, Layar, LiveMeeting, mobile, Motion Computing, Pachube, procurement, SaaS, Second Life, Skype, SliderStudio, SlideShare, smartphone, Software-as-a-Service, StickyWorld, Tablet computing, tCn, the Construction Network, Twitter, UNIT4, Ustream, Vela Systems, Virtual worlds, Web 2.0, web conferencing, WebEx, wifi, Wikipedia, WiMax, Woobius, Woobius Eye, YouCanPlan
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Mar 10 2010

Still keeping an Eye on Woobius

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, SaaS, Web 2.0
10 March 2010

I met up with Bob Leung from Woobius a couple of times last week (including at the launch of StickyWorld‘s Collaboration Cafe at London’s Building Centre – pwcom post), and he updated me on progress with Woobius Eye (see post). Now honoured with its own website, the latest stage of Woobius Eye’s development was the …

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Mar 09 2010

Daden showcases collaborative use of Second Life

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Web 2.0
9 March 2010

On 25 February, Martin Brown and I talked to the Black Country Constructing Excellence Club about use of social media in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. We both mentioned the virtual world of Second Life and, being in the West Midlands, it seemed natural to highlight the expertise of Birmingham-based Daden (whose efforts …

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Mar 02 2010

tCn – The Construction Network – launches

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, Web 2.0
2 March 2010

[This is a re-post of an article from my pwcom blog, published 2 March 2010. A debate has been kindled in the comments section that is reminiscent of conversations around the time of the dot.com boom in 2000.] Late last year I was contacted by Ryan Briggs, one of the co-founders of a new social …