Tag: MBE KTN

May 09 2011

TSB launches £7m competition to boost UK construction ICT

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future
9 May 2011

The UK’s Technology Strategy Board (TSB) is to invest up to £12 million through three new research and development competitions that will stimulate innovation and support growth across the UK, with the lion’s share (£7m) of the potential pot being devoted to a competition for high-value manufacturing and construction (see news release). As a business-led government …

automation, building information modelling, collaboration, COMIT, Construction, ICT, MBE KTN, National Platform for the Built Environment, SCRI, simulation, Technology Strategy Board

Permanent link to this article: http://extranetevolution.com/2011/05/tsb-launches-7m-competition-to-boost-uk-construction-ict/

Jun 28 2007

FIATECH and COMIT to collaborate, but don’t forget the others…

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Telecoms, Vendors
28 June 2007

At a Harvard University conference in Boston last year, I briefly met Ric Jackson of FIATECH and talked about the NCCTP’s efforts to develop a data exchange standard that would allow data to be transferred between different construction collaboration (‘extranet’) platforms. From a Cadalyst article, I see FIATECH has recently signed a memorandum of understanding with UK-based group …