Category: People issues

Apr 24 2007

Seeing red

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, People issues, SaaS
24 April 2007

A recent Cadalyst article, Reviews Have Architects Seeing Red by Scott Mackenzie, talks about ‘CAD-less’ marking-up of drawings. He writes: “Over the past several years, I have not seen a whole lot of electronic redlining going on,” before explaining: “The older generation of architects and engineers can be indifferent, hesitant or intimidated by the whole …

Adobe, AEC, architect, Autodesk, AutoVue, Bluebeam, Brava!, CADwizz, Cimmetry, drawing, DWF, DWGSee, Freewheel, mark-up, PDF, red-lining, Scott Mackenzie, viewer, Vista
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Apr 19 2007

BuildingSMART Conference, London

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues
19 April 2007

I attended the BuildingSMART conference in London yesterday and, as with many UK construction IT events these days (and despite the presence of significant delegations from Scandinavia and the US), found myself meeting a few familiar faces. Asite people, including CEO Tony Ryan and technical director Nathan Doughty, were there in force to support a demonstration of their …

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Apr 17 2007

BIM – realistically, still over the horizon

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues
17 April 2007

AECcafe.com has reprinted a couple of interesting articles from AIArchitect by Michael Tardif, both on the subject on Building Information Modelling (BIM): Faith-based BIM (originally published 27 October 2006) BIM 2011: A Five-year Forecast (5 January 2007) BIM “not yet” The first article starts by echoing an argument I made in my book in that, despite …

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Apr 10 2007

United Construction IT (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues
10 April 2007

Last month’s update regarding the United Construction IT umbrella group has been quickly followed by an announcement from two of the UK organisations involved: the Construction Industry Computing Association (CICA) and its parent, the NCC. According to NCC’s Michael Gough, there has been: “a complete rethink of CICA’s offering and business model to ensure that we continue …

AEC, CICA, Construction Industry Computing Association, extranet, UK, United Construction IT

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Mar 30 2007

Ecospace

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, Vendors
30 March 2007

UK trade publication, Building, says: “A big complaint about collaboration tools is that everybody is familiar with a different system, which means companies have to spend time and money training their staff when they start a new project.” It goes on to report that UK collaboration vendor Business Collaborator is working on Ecospace, a €12m (£8.1m) …

AEC, Business Collaborator, collaboration, Construction, Ecospace, extranet, UK

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Mar 29 2007

BIM and ‘lean construction’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, People issues
29 March 2007

Further to Monday’s post on BIM, I see Nigel Davies at EatYourCAD has written about (Mis)understanding BIM. Helpfully, he starts by explaining what BIM is not – in short, BIM is not 3D, or Revit, or a single database or “single building model”, or Project Lifeycle Management, or even Building Information Modelling (instead, Nigel prefers to …

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Mar 26 2007

Wikis and AEC collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, ROI/benefits, SaaS
26 March 2007

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the starting point of a contributed article to AECbytes.com. In Enterprise Wiki: An Emerging Technology to be Considered by the AEC Industry, Ondrej Kalny likens the information-sharing approach of BIM to the wider need for collaboration within a typical AEC project team, using a ‘hub and spokes’ diagram that will …

AEC, BIW, collaboration, Construction, extranet, Feilden Clegg Bradley, intranet, knowledge management, Ondrej Kalny, wiki
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Mar 20 2007

Trust and the team

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Legal, People issues
20 March 2007

Last week, I touched on the issue of trust in sharing digital design information. It crops up again in an interesting article, BIM and Risk, by Richard Lowe in the US-based “Constructor” magazine (found, by the way, via the CADwire Insights weekly newsletter). He opens with a simple analogy: “The argument in favor of using virtual 3D …

3D, AEC, BIM, collaboration, Constructor, Richard Lowe, risk, trust, US
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Mar 14 2007

UK CAD managers survey 2007

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Internet, People issues
14 March 2007

Last March, I wrote about Evolve Consultancy‘s UK CAD Managers Survey 2006 (see Email used to issue 65% of CAD information). The 2007 edition has just been published, but as I can’t afford £199 for the full results, I will have to make do with the main headline findings summarised in the news release. No …

CAD, email, Evolve Consultancy, extranets

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Mar 02 2007

Viewing design visuals (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues
2 March 2007

Having looked at collaboration for viewing marketing collateral, etc, I have just read a fascinating AECbyte by Lachmi Khemlani. In Exploring Second Life and its Potential in Real Life AEC, she describes her (or her avatar’s) first steps into Second Life – the online virtual reality “alternate” world. She describes how one US architectural firm, …