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ITCF 2006 conference (3)

Andrew Coombes at Eat Your CAD gives a delegate’s view of proceedings at last month’s ITCF conference. Pleased to see he rated the day sufficiently highly that he would "definitely" go again. Whether the same view would be shared by some of the NCCTP members is another matter. As the main sponsor bringing together several …

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Deltek in UK

An appearance was made at Wednesday’s ITCF conference by a stand from US accounting and ERP software vendor Deltek. I was aware of the business from monitoring various US-based websites, but I hadn’t appreciated that they were also active on the eastern side of the Atlantic (they have a London office and one in Welwyn …

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NCCTP AEC collaboration market research (2)

While serving on the panel of the NCCTP-sponsored stream session at yesterday’s IT Construction Forum annual conference at the Oval in London, I told the audience that the NCCTP was undertaking some market research into user opinions and experiences of the leading UK ‘extranet’ systems. The fieldwork, undertaken by independent market research agency Benchmark, is …

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eTenderer.com achieves RICS compliance (2)

At the ITCF event yesterday, I asked the Sarcophagus guys about the RICS e-tendering compliance process (see 22 May post). It seems that the compliance mainly involved close reading by Sarcophagus of last October’s RICS guidance (as a result of which they tweaked their system in a few places). I didn’t get the impression that …

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eTenderer.com achieves RICS compliance

I notice from the latest news release on the website of UK construction collaboration technology vendor, Sarcophagus, that its online procurement solution, eTenderer, has been updated to be the first product of its type to comply with the RICS e-tendering guidelines. Version 2.0 will apparently be launched be publicly launched at the ITCF (IT Construction …

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ProjectWise StartPoint

At AECnews.com, Randall Newton – en route to the Bentley BE conference – briefly mentions Bentley’s new product (see my 19 May post), adding: My old buddy, Joe Croser, formerly a UK architectural consultant and now a Bentley employee, thinks it “bridges a very important gap in the market.” I’ll take a look and see …

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Bentley Unveils ProjectWise StartPoint

There are a few Bentley ProjectWise users in the UK architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) market (about seven years ago, in my freelance days, I wrote a case study for the UK’s IT Best Practice Programme about how architect Damond Lock Grabowski was using the system). Will the latest news from Bentley see that number …

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4Projects enjoys doubled profit (2)

An anonymous comment on yesterday's post about 4Projects says: "interesting 4Projects claimed to have made a £590,000 profit in Oct 2004" and points at a BIW press release. I think the confusion may have arisen because the 2004 headline figure included a proportion of 4Projects' profits that were returned to the parent Leighton Group. The …

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BIW user conference 2006

No posts yesterday as I was managing the BIW user conference at the (fantastic) Oval conference centre in London. Previously, we used to run a series workshops for small groups (15-20 or so) at the BIW offices; this year, we decided to do one big event to promote greater interaction between users and with BIW …

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ITCF 2006 conference (2)

Since my previous post on this subject, I have learned that Paul Castle of Turner & Townsend has confirmed that he will be the principal speaker in the NCCTP afternoon discussion stream session at the ITCF conference on 24 May.

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