Category: People issues

Dec 04 2006

BuildOnline “has merged with a US player”

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
4 December 2006

At PodTech, there is a podcast of former BuildOnline CEO Mark Suster (see previous post) talking about Koral and his “past life” at BO. However, Robert Scoble, the interviewer, corrects himself to say BO “is still your present life as you’re on the board of directors,” to which Suster responds: “that’s true” (interpretation: Suster is …

AEC, BuildOnline, construction collaboration, extranet, Koral, Mark Suster, merger, UK, US
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Dec 04 2006

Who’s running BuildOnline UK?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
4 December 2006

Following my earlier post about UK-based collaboration vendor BuildOnline CEO Mark Suster and his US-based Koral venture, I now wonder if I should perhaps refer to him "as the former BuildOnline CEO". In the 3 December post to his Koral blog he twice mentions being Koral’s full-time CEO: We [Koral] will hopefully close on a …

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Dec 04 2006

EatYourCad Babbage Award goes to … Avanti

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
4 December 2006

On the excellent EatYourCad blog (see December 2005 post) Nigel Davies has had an irreverant look back at 2006 and made some awards for ‘“things that should not be”, things that have drawn a wry smile or things that have been plain crazy’. And ‘The Cart Driving The Donkey Award’ goes to … Avanti. Nigel writes: …

4Projects, AEC, Asite, Avanti, Babbage, BIW, blog, EatMyCad, extranet, Nigel Davies, PIX Protocol, UK

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Nov 27 2006

BIM, BIMs or SBIM?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues
27 November 2006

After last week’s Construction Computing Show (see previous post), I have finally got round to reading the show edition of Construction Computing magazine (November/December 2006), which incorporates CAD User. In the latter, there is an article (not yet on the CAD User website) from Mervyn Richards, which I think gives a good, if ultimately somewhat …

AEC, Asite, BIM, Collaborative BIM, Construction Computing, Mervyn Richards, people issues, UK
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Nov 09 2006

Adobe ignores extranets?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, People issues, ROI/benefits
9 November 2006

An Adobe survey of 657 US-based AEC professionals undertaken by Harris Interactive (reported by AEC.Cadalyst.com) has found that, despite the advent of electronic means of exchanging project information, paper still remains the most popular form in which to review CAD information. Indeed, paper is even more popular in 2006 than it was when a similar survey was …

Adobe, CAD, collaboration, Construction, extranet, PDF, research, US

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2006/11/adobe_ignores_e/

Nov 01 2006

Ex-Constructware exec joins Citadon

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
1 November 2006

Looking across the Atlantic again, a news release tells me Gary Greenberger, former Vice President of Sales for Constructware, has joined rival collaboration technology vendor Citadon to head its sales operations in north and south America. The release says: "Mr Greenberger was instrumental in developing the company’s Software as a Service (SaaS) sales model and …

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2006/11/exconstructware/

Sep 22 2006

Knowledge – an untapped resource

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Functionality, Future, People issues
22 September 2006

Inbetween the PIECC event on Tuesday and yesterday’s Constructing Excellence event, I attended a seminar at the RICS organised by an Oxford Brookes University team, led by Esra Kurun, presenting a study of social networks and their role in knowledge management. It was interesting stuff. There were two case studies, the first from Bovis Lend Lease …

BIW, Bovis, knowledge management, social network analysis

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2006/09/knowledge_an_un/

Sep 20 2006

Give PIECC a chance

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Books, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, People issues
20 September 2006

Yesterday I attended a workshop at Loughborough University to discuss Planning and Implementation of Effective Collaboration in Construction, the PIECC (pronounced ‘peace’) project. The event was one of the final deliverables of a two-year, EPSRC-funded project run by Loughborough’s Mark Shelbourn and Dino Bouchlaghem (with industry involvement from Avanti, Arup, Buro Happold, Capita Symonds, Mott …

Avanti, collaborative working, Constructing Excellence, Loughborough University, PIECC, research

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Sep 18 2006

Changes at BuildOnline (5)

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
18 September 2006

The latest batch of changes at UK-based on-demand extranet vendor BuildOnline see the sudden departure of Bob Godfrey (Managing Director – Northern Europe) and job-title changes for his former colleagues Gert-Jan de Kieviet and Franck Meudec, now respectively managing directors of BO’s North EMEA and South EMEA regions. Careful readers of the website of the …

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Sep 05 2006

NCCTP research featured in “Building” magazine

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
5 September 2006

The latest publication to feature the NCCTP’s recently published research report "Proving Collaboration Pays" (see previous post) was the leading UK weekly, Building (25 August 2006 issue). The article, How good are extranets?, by Sonia Soltani, doesn’t just focus on the report though; it gives the views of numerous users – from Bouygues UK, Gleeds, …