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Mar 08 2011

Virtual worlds and the built environment

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, Sustainability, Vendors, Web 2.0
8 March 2011

Virtual worlds and the built environment (PDF) is a white paper just published by Birmingham, UK-based Daden Ltd, about whom I’ve written before (post). Having explored Second Life very superficially a couple of years ago when Be2camp was in its infancy, I have watched with interest as Dave Burden and Soulla Stylianou have developed strong …

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Nov 24 2009

Collabor8 online

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors
24 November 2009

This year I have written about several low-cost, even no-cost, collaboration solutions that might be used by businesses in the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry (eg: Glasscubes, e-Grou, Incite Toolbox, ShowDocument, drop.io, Clouds UK, Woobius, Colaab). Even the deepest recession that most AEC professionals can remember has not deterred people from launching new solutions. …

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Nov 24 2008

AEC conferences, content and ‘unconferences’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, People issues, Telecoms, Web 2.0
24 November 2008

My friend Jodie Miners is now back in Australia after a whirlwind trip to Europe (and Dubai) that included co-organisation and participation in the London Be2camp 2008 event at the Building Centre on 10 October. She has been blogging about part of her trip – to the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona – and makes …