Jul 18 2014
While writing about SmartBuilder‘s closure earlier this week, I was engaged in an email exchange with the company’s founder and CEO Peter Daly about the challenges of promoting mobile applications in the UK construction market. Here he reflects on his experience over the past four years. What are the factors in construction adoption of mobile …
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Jul 15 2014
London, UK-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor Asite is partnering with Nemetschek Vectorworks to promote the automation of workflows throughout a building’s lifecycle. The relationship, announced last week, enables users of Vectorworks Architect software to connect commercial information in their building information models (BIMs), enhance coordination processes and maintain a clear audit trail on updates to their design …
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Jun 26 2014
I was recently asked what proportion of the UK market used a construction collaboration system from a particular vendor, and this led on to a conversation about the overall value of the UK market for SaaS collaboration. It depends… Calculating this is fraught with difficulties: First, some of the smaller vendors do not publish full …
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Jun 25 2014
The UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has selected 4Projects 4BIM model server to support Level 2 BIM across all its future development projects, the Newcastle-based SaaS collaboration technology vendor (a subsidiary of Viewpoint Construction Software) has announced. This is a significant step by a major government department as the MoJ is one of those leading the UK public sector push …
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May 02 2014
Founded in 1935, the Builders’ Conference is a UK construction trade association, and one of the UK’s largest bodies of main contractors, sub-contractors, suppliers and consultants. It provides tender information and market intelligence, provides educational information, and champions the issues affecting members. With the UK government mandating building information modelling (BIM) for public sector projects …
Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2014/05/builders-conference-surveying-uk-bim-uptake/
Mar 18 2014
Asite’s product strategy highlights the growing importance of simple, social interface design coupled with mobile SaaS access. Asite‘s London launch yesterday of its new SaaS corporate collaboration platform for the capital asset industry (aka architecture, engineering and construction and owner/occupiers, AECO) was a busy and ultimately, for some, boozy day in Shoreditch Town Hall. After …
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Mar 10 2014
UK-based Kykloud have turned to a successful SaaS reseller team to boost their platform’s penetration in Australasia. North Shields, UK-based mobile building surveying and SaaS asset management vendor Kykloud has launched an operation in Australasia, working with the same reseller team which successfully launched the 4Projects SaaS AEC collaboration platform into that region in August 2012. The …
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Mar 07 2014
Mobile-first collaboration provider Fieldlens offers a more mobile, open and real-time approach that reflects contemporary technology use. While many UK construction folk have been visiting east London’s ExCEL and wandering around the Ecobuild exhibition halls this week (more about this later), in the US, it’s ConExpo-Con/Agg time in Las Vegas. Among the technology exhibitors at …
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Feb 25 2014
Complementing Google Genie, Project Tango could revolutionise on-site real-time data capture, and Geniebelt sees such innovations as the future. Project Tango is Google’s latest project focused on mobile devices and interaction with the 3D physical world. Last November, there was a flurry of speculation about another Google project, Genie (see also Vannevar Technology), and its …
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Feb 11 2014
Viewpoint’s future growth will be built on 21st century technologies and flexibility to meet different customer needs, including collaboration, says its CEO. Almost exactly a year ago, as mentioned on Friday, Portland, Oregon based Viewpoint Construction Software acquired SaaS construction collaboration specialist 4Projects and set about profiting from its investment in the UK company, now …
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