Tag: iPhone

Buildcloud: architect-led collaboration

Buildcloud project newsfeed

Web-based Buildcloud aims to help architectural teams working on high-end projects to improve communications with their (high end) clients and contractors. The latest entrant to the UK mobile-oriented construction collaboration market is Buildcloud, developed by a West Yorkshire-based startup, whose team includes an architect (Edward Park, formerly of Cartwright Pickard and Aedas, now a director of …

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Corecon releases iOS app

Corecon Punchlist on iOS tablet

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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Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2014/06/corecon-releases-ios-app/

bim+ launches free BIM starter edition for teams

BIMplus visualisation

Nemetschek’s bim+ cloud-based open building information modelling, BIM, service, launched in Beta in November 2013, now has a no-cost starter edition for small teams. The Munich, Germany-based company says a professional edition will be available soon. The free Team Edition (5 projects, 5 users, 5 GB storage) connects architects, engineers, building managers and owners as well …

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Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2014/02/bim-launches-free-bim-starter-edition-for-teams/

Docia UK pushing BIM

In the past year, Docia has established a UK foothold independent of its MPS partner, and is now pushing its own BIM capabilities. Just over two years ago (27 May 2011), Copenhagen, Denmark-based SaaS collaboration technology vendor Docia first featured in Extranet Evolution following its tie-up with UK contract change management provider MPS Process to …

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4Projects: 4Mobile. Looking forward: for Android

4Mobile Directory Screen shot

Last week’s announcement of a new mobile app by Viewpoint Construction Software’s subsidiary, the UK-based SaaS construction collaboration software developer 4Projects, was apparently distributed earlier than planned. There was, therefore, a few days delay before I could talk to 4Projects VP and general manager and Viewpoint SVP Strategy & Corporate Development Matt Harris about the …

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Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2013/07/4projects-4mobile-looking-forward-for-android/

Aconex extends mobile offering to iPad

I’ve mentioned its imminent launch a couple of times recently but now it’s official: Aconox Mobile for iPad. The Melbourne, Australia-based SaaS collaboration vendor Aconex launched an iPhone app in May last year (post), and has now expanded its portfolio to include an iPad app (already winner of the 2012 Australian Mobile Award for Project Management), …

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Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2012/09/aconex-extends-mobile-offering-to-ipad/

Stiktu: a social app, perhaps with professional potential

Thanks to a transAtlantic Twitter conversation with fellow construction technology fanatic Carol Hagen, I was alerted yesterday to a new mobile augmented reality application, Stiktu. From the people behind augmented reality browser Layar, this has just been released on both iPhone and Android in nine European countries (US to follow, I believe), and its initial …

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Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/12/stiktu-a-social-app-perhaps-with-professional-potential/

OpenBuildings now on Android

Buildings App for Android

OpenBuildings.com, the crowd-sourced building directory I wrote about last month, is now available on multiple mobile devices. Just ahead of the launch of its Buildings Android app, I met up with the business’s two founders, COO Tom Mallory (left) and CEO Adel Zakout (right), in London last week. As previously described, OpenBuildings is a social media application …

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OpenBuildings.com: crowd-sourcing a building directory

OpenBuildings article on Charlton House

When I discovered the crowd-sourced building directory OpenBuildings.com I was immediately intrigued, not least because of its ambitious strapline: “Archiving the world’s built environment.” I have been a long-time editor of Wikipedia and am interested in how social media can be used in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) field to share and develop information and …

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Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/06/openbuildings-com-crowd-sourcing-buildings/

Buzzsaw Mobile launched

You wait for ages and then two come along at once…. Like London buses, two mobile collaboration applications for iPhone have been launched this week. In the same week that SaaS construction collaboration vendor Aconex launched its Aconex Mobile (post), rival provider Autodesk has announced the release of its Autodesk Buzzsaw Mobile app designed for …

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