Blog feed- New Aconex CFOMelbourne, Australia-based SaaS construction collaboration technology provider Aconex has announced the appointment of a new chief financial officer, Steve Recht. The news release says Recht has 30 years’ operating and finance experience as a CEO, COO and CFO for venture-backed … Continue reading → […]
- From email to BIMIn the past couple of weeks, I have delivered two presentations on BIM (building information modelling). The first was an overview of BIM to the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s Construction Industry Group (CIMCIG) at the Building Centre in London on … Continue reading → […]
- Viewpoint acquires Construction ImagingViewpoint Construction Software, the Oregon, US-based construction ERP vendor has made another move towards the collaboration sector with its just-announced acquisition of fellow US company Construction Imaging, a provider of enterprise content management solutions. I spoke to Viewpoint’s management in February and … Continue reading → […]
- A longer look at TrackerPlusIn January, I wrote about London-based environmental consultancy SouthFacing and its TrackerPlus online Software-as-a-Service solution to help BRE-licensed BREEAM assessors manage their workload. This week, I visited the company’s Islington offices and met Ben Cartmell to find out more about the … Continue reading → […]
- Docia opens South Africa officeCopenhagen, Denmark-based construction collaboration technology provider Docia (aka “Byggeweb” in its home market) has opened an office in Johannesburg, South Africa – founder and CEO Mads Bording tells me. Just over six months since the Scandinavian business opened an office … Continue reading → […]
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Category Archives: Mobile
SketchUp acquisition extends Trimble’s BIM reach
Discussion about building information modelling software has tended to focus on designers’ needs, but the more I have thought about the announcement of Trimble’s acquisition of Google’s SketchUp last week, the more I see it as boosting its BIM capabilities from a … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged 3D Warehouse, BIM, BIM Libraries, BIMStore, CIMCIG, construction collaboration technology, Google, GPS, laser scanning, Meridian, National BIM Library, Open BIM, SketchUp, Software-as-a-Service, Tekla, Trimble
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Construction IT events need great topics, and good organisers
The recent cancellation of a London construction IT conference underlines the need not just to find the right subject, but also the right organisers. Two topics in construction IT are currently almost guaranteed to attract good event audiences: building information … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Blogs, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, Web 2.0
Tagged AEC, BIM, building information modelling, CIMCIG, COMIT, construction collaboration technology, First Strategy Communications, ICT4Construction, London, marketing, mobile, PR, Recep Saffet
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Clippings adds company profiles and ‘collaboration’
Two months ago, on my construction PR and marketing blog, I wrote about Clippings.com, a Pinterest-style architectural and interior design scrapbook service (see post). An email today tells me this AEC-oriented social media service (from the same people behind OpenBuildings … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
Tagged Asite, Clippings.com, construction collaboration technology, marketing, mobile, SaaS, Social Media, Web 2.0, Woobius, Woobius Showcase
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Docia: a Red Herring Top 100 finalist
An email arrives from CEO Mads Bording, right, telling me that Copenhagen, Denmark-based SaaS construction collaboration vendor Docia is a finalist in Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe awards, a list honouring 2012’s most promising private technology ventures from the European … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Marketing, Mobile, Vendors, Web 2.0
Tagged AMEE, Be2camp, construction collaboration technology, Docia, Hailo, Layar, marketing, mobile, PeerIndex, PR, Red Herring, SaaS, Skydox, Social Media, Web 2.0, Zoopla
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Open BIM, 4BIM … and potential ‘BIM-wash’
A London conference on building information modelling (BIM) on Wednesday, organised jointly by Constructing Excellence and the Construction Products Association, featured two announcements. Open BIM First, we heard that BuildingSMART International, various Nemetschek companies, Tekla, Solibri, and other major construction … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged 4Projects, AEC, AEC3, architecture, Asite, Autodesk, Bentley ProjectWise, BIM, BIM Academy, BIM wash, BIM360, BIM4, BuildingSMART, Buzzsaw, cBIM, Construction, construction collaboration technology, Engineering, London, Nick Nisbet, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, UK, Vinci
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think project! revisited (and visited!)
Already highly configurable, think project! functionality is set to expand over the next year, with BIM and mobile access high on the agenda. When I profiled Munich-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor think project! last month, I said I would … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet, Functionality, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged Aconex, AEC, architecture, AutoVue, Cimmetry, Construction, construction collaboration technology, CTSpace, Engineering, Eplass, Germany, Munich, Oracle, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, Think Project!
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Unit4 combining collaboration, ERP and BIM in the cloud
The 2012 Unit4 customer conference this week at Birmingham’s International Convention Centre incorporated the annual user event for users of Unit4 Collaboration (formerly Business Collaborator), and there were some significant announcements both about the structure of that business and about … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet, Functionality, Future, Marketing, Mobile, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged AEC, Agresso, Anwen Robinson, API, architecture, BC Assure, BIM, BIMaaS, building information modelling, Business Collaborator, cloud computing, COBie, collaboration, Construction, construction collaboration technology, Crest Nicholson, EC Harris, Engineering, ERP, Halcrow, IKEA, Mark Bew, marketing, mobile, MVA, SaaS, Sanjeev Shah, Social Media, Software-as-a-Service, Steve Crompton, UK, UNIT4, Unit4 Collaboration, Wessex Water, WSP
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ERP vendor Viewpoint viewing collaboration space
While not a household name in the European construction ERP market, Viewpoint is eyeing opportunities across the Atlantic and knows a thing or two about the collaboration space. “How come you dominate your marketplace and yet I’ve never heard of … Continue reading
Posted in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors
Tagged Access, Aconex, AEC, architecture, Australia, BIM, BIW, building information modelling, Causeway, CMiC, COINS, collaboration, Construction, construction collaboration technology, Engineering, ENR, ERP, IFS, Intuit, Jay Haladay, kykloud, marketing, Matt Harris, Maxwell, Oracle, RedSkyIT, SaaS, Sage, Software-as-a-Service, US, Viewpoint
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