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May 05 2010

Construction IT spend still very cost-conscious

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
5 May 2010

An article by Stephen Kennett, Construction is second worst investor in IT, in Building magazine (registration required) last week highlights that the UK construction sector is slowly improving its approach to information technologies, but the picture revealed by the NCC/Construct IT survey varies depending on what type of organisation you look at. Construction firms still …

architects, Building magazine, cloud computing, Construct IT, Construction, construction collaboration technology, contractors, designers, developers, health, housebuilders, IT, manufacturing, National Federation of Builders, NCC, recession, retail, SaaS, SMEs, Software-as-a-Service, Stephen Kennett, transport, virtual desktops

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2010/05/construction-it-spend-still-very-cost-conscious/

Feb 13 2009

Who needs Auto-PDF?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Internet, Telecoms, Vendors
13 February 2009

AECcafe.com has details of a new application that automatically converts online construction data such as RFIs and submittals to downloadable PDF files, “increasing convenience and enhancing security for architects, contractors, owners and developers” (or so claims US-based software vendor Construction Communicator). The news release says the PDF file format “is particularly valuable when traveling, when …