The latest Autodesk UK press release claims an independent survey it commissioned reveals that IT – and construction collaboration technologies, in particular – will be the key to the success of the UK house-building industry (a sector currently plagued by a host of uncertainties, not least a dramatic drop in demand – see Brian Green’s …
Category: People issues
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Jun 04 2008
Greener Than Thou
CAD Insider Roopinder Tara attended last week’s Bentley bonanza in Baltimore (see my post) and, in a post Greener than Thou, has been wondering about how green a CAD company can be when, after all, its design software will be used to create edifices consuming large amounts of natural resources. Bentley’s Joe Croser told him …
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May 30 2008
Proto-building, to BIM is to build
I have just opened the latest AECbytes newsletter and read a fantastic article by US architect John Tobin. In Proto-building: to BIM is to build, he incorporates a lucid explanation of a famous Magritte painting, lots of talk about interoperability, and some memorable analogies, stretching from CAD on steroids (BIM 1.0) through The Big Bang …
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May 27 2008
Egan: 10 years on (again)
It seems hardly a week goes by at the moment without someone talking about what has (or – more likely – hasn't) changed in the UK construction industry in the ten years since Sir John Egan produced his report, Rethinking Construction. A couple of weeks ago, Building magazine produced a depressing feature, “Egan 10 years …
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May 26 2008
Downsizing at Constructing Excellence? – update
After my post 10 days ago about the restructuring of UK AEC pan-industry membership organisation Constructing Excellence, I asked chief executive Don Ward if he would give me a statement on the likely impact of the changes. After an understandable delay while staff briefings and consultations continued last week, Don sent me the following: We …
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May 19 2008
Asite non-exec steps down
Mathew Riley, a non-executive director of UK construction collaboration technology vendor Asite “will be stepping down from the Board of Asite with immediate effect”. According to the London Stock Exchange announcement, the Asite board do not currently plan to appoint another non-executive director to take his place. According to the Asite website, Riley is (or at least was) “Commercial Director for …
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May 16 2008
The Hard Way
Joint Aconex MD Leigh Jasper has been interviewed by Jodie O’Keefe for the April/May issue of Australian Anthill magazine (a magazine focused on fast-growth companies). The feature, The Hard Way, says Aconex “now employs over 300 people servicing 4,950 projects in 65 countries” (including Romania). Considering Aconex has still yet to conclude a lengthy legal dispute …
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May 15 2008
Downsizing at Constructing Excellence?
I have just received a members e-bulletin from UK construction membership organisation Constructing Excellence that has set alarm bells ringing. Headed “Constructing Excellence announces restructuring“, it says: Constructing Excellence has announced an organisational restructure to enable a sharper focus on its core business of delivering value to its membership. Over the last two years, Constructing …
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May 15 2008
RIBA CPD events
I am presenting at two events next week. On Wednesday morning, 21 May 2008, I will be in Knutsford, Cheshire talking about construction collaboration technologies to architects from the northwest group of the Royal Institute of British Architects – part of a Continuous Professional Development (CPD) event organised in conjunction with Constructing Excellence‘s IT Construction Forum …
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May 15 2008
BuildingSMART 2008 conference programme revealed
The programme for the 2008 London international BuildingSMART conference has been published. The one-day event – enticingly (ha, ha!) entitled “The STAND-INN Route to Sustainability and Value for Money in Construction and FM using BIM/IFCs” – is to be held again at the RIBA in London, on Wednesday 25 June. The day includes: sessions on …
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