Late last month I learned that Dublin, Ireland-based Android mobile construction application developer SmartBuilder was closing down. A brief message to me from founder and CEO Peter Daly explained “Despite the promise of the new app we have been unable to source additional funding.” It appears that the company’s May 2014 effort to rename and reposition itself …
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Jul 10 2014
Colin Smith leads Textura European push
Ex-COINS, BIW and Conject executive, Colin Smiths takes the helm as Textura looks to conquer the construction payment management market in Europe. Colin Smith, founder of BIW Technologies in 2000, CEO of that business through to its sale to Munich-based Conject in 2010, and then CEO of the Conject Group until December 2013, has a …
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Jul 07 2014
FluidCM pushes free AEC mobile tools
Los Angeles, US-based FluidCM (Fluid Contract Manager), which I wrote about in October 2013, is releasing several free cloud-based tools allowing companies to sample its mobile-first, intuitive-to-use construction software. The FluidCM Free Tool Campaign allows contractors, project owners, and architecture and engineering teams to store up to 1GB of data with unlimited users. This will give cloud newcomers …
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Jul 03 2014
EstimateOne to expand beyond Australasian e-tendering
Streamlining complex construction procurement in Australia could be platform for growth into other markets, EstimateOne’s founders believe. I have been writing about web-based tendering solutions for the construction industry for around 10 years, watching what has been a slow and still somewhat gradual expansion. By 2005, my then employer, BIW Technologies (now Conject) had launched an e-tendering solution that …
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Jun 26 2014
Valuing the UK SaaS construction collaboration market
I was recently asked what proportion of the UK market used a construction collaboration system from a particular vendor, and this led on to a conversation about the overall value of the UK market for SaaS collaboration. It depends… Calculating this is fraught with difficulties: First, some of the smaller vendors do not publish full …
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Jun 25 2014
MoJ selects 4Projects 4BIM
The UK Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has selected 4Projects 4BIM model server to support Level 2 BIM across all its future development projects, the Newcastle-based SaaS collaboration technology vendor (a subsidiary of Viewpoint Construction Software) has announced. This is a significant step by a major government department as the MoJ is one of those leading the UK public sector push …
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Jun 18 2014
Plangrid pushes simplicity
San-Francisco-based Plangrid is targeting the simple mobile plan-sharing needs of site-based staff, but expanding functionality. Another player in the mobile construction collaboration market in the US is San Francisco, California-based Plangrid. I received an email late last month from PlanGrid’s chief technology officer Ralph Gootee (a former Pixar Animation Studios software engineer) telling me about the …
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Jun 06 2014
Corecon releases iOS app
Four months after releasing an Android app (post), California-based web-based construction software provider Corecon Technologies has released Corecon Mobile for Apple’s iPhone and iPad. enabling mobile access for iOS users to Corecon V7 online estimating, project management and job cost suite. Field staff can take progress photos, update checklist or punchlist items or import contacts directly from …
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May 28 2014
ConjectMI – mobile inspections – launched
“The UK’s first fully integrated enterprise-level solution for defects and inspection processes” Or maybe not. On 1 May 2014, I attended a London breakfast briefing about Conject‘s new mobile defects management and inspection toolset, then somewhat cryptically branded “OPR6”. I have just received a news release from the Woking office of the Anglo-German SaaS construction software …
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May 23 2014
4Projects: the future is cloud-based everything
Now dubbed 4Projects by Viewpoint, the collaboration solution is spearheading wider adoption of SaaS across the Viewpoint portfolio. I attended most of the second day of the 4Projects user conference in Newcastle yesterday (Thursday), hoping to hear more about the parent company Viewpoint Construction Software’s plans for its locally-based UK Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration vendor subsidiary. I wasn’t …
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