UK Contractor John Doyle is the latest firm to feature in trade mag Contract Journal‘s profile series. Asked about the company’s use of project collaboration tools, Julian Brown, information systems manager says: “We regularly engage in various project-specific portals. We use tools such as the market leader BIW when working for Bovis, Asite when working for …
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Nov 02 2006
CIRIA changes
Via QSNews, I learnt yesterday that Tim Broyd is to step down as chief executive of CIRIA, and will be succeeded by Bill Healy. Both men have played a role in promoting construction collaboration technologies in the UK, having spoken at extranet conferences and, in Bill’s case, handled the affairs of the CIRIA-hosted NCCTP during …
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Nov 01 2006
Ex-Constructware exec joins Citadon
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 …
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Nov 01 2006
US: Trimble buys Meridian Project Systems
Latest collaboration news from the USA concerns the acquisition in an all-cash deal (terms not disclosed) of leading project management software business Meridian Project Systems by GPS and mobile IT systems specialist Trimble – the latter’s seventh acquisition of 2006 (says AECnews.com). Trimble has been assembling a suite of software, hardware and services with the …
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Nov 01 2006
Asite shares climb after markets told of deal
Asite‘s share price leapt 35% yesterday, to a heady 2.875p, on news of the collaboration vendor’s deal with Welsh Health Estates (its first contract win announcement since April 2005). Given the market reaction, the news was clearly price-sensitive, yet the industry has been aware of the deal for over a month. First, Asite mentioned it …
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Oct 30 2006
BuildOnline statistics
Thanks to a software review in the latest (November 2006) issue of Project Manager Today, we learn that UK AEC vendor BuildOnline: "markets a ‘project extranet’ hosted Web system, that has 8,000 customers and 1,300 projects and programmes currently on the go, with 43,000 users; all in the construction industry. … there are currently 3.7 …
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Oct 24 2006
BIM – Asite targets US
Earlier this month, UK-based collaboration vendor Asite announced that it planned to release a collaborative BIM product (see 10 October post). It has just issued a further press release saying it will be announcing (again) the “forthcoming release of Asite Collaborative BIM at the Building SMART Week Conference” in Washington DC next week. BuildingSMART is the recent preferred …
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Oct 19 2006
e-PIN overhauls website (2)
Got an email today from Robin Shipston, a director of ePIN – a BIW competitor and one of the smaller UK vendors of construction collaboration technology. He gently criticises me for not including ePIN’s website on my links list. This was because the list was originally focused on members of the NCCTP – however, as …
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Oct 12 2006
CJ Construction Industry Awards 2006
I have just skimmed through a supplement to this week’s UK trade magazine Contract Journal covering its annual awards event. Working in IT, I turned first to the IT Award page. This year’s winner was the BAA T5 project at London Heathrow Airport, rewarded for its 3D single model environment. Shortlisted in the same category …
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Oct 10 2006
Asite’s “major new developments”
Asite’s website has revealed the “major new development” announced at last week’s half-day conference (see previous post). It was two ‘new’ products: Asite Workspace and Asite Building Information Model (BIM). Asite Workspace is described in Asite’s press release as: “an entry level collaboration tool, addressing the concerns of the industry highlighted by the 2006 NCCTP …
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