Tag: StressFree

Jan 07 2010

Project Bluestreak and the ‘collaboration kernel’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Vendors, Web 2.0
7 January 2010

I wrote about Autodesk’s experimental BIM collaboration environment, Project Bluestreak, last November, being interested in both its promise of accelerated building information modelling (BIM) and its deployment of Web 2.0 tools to help speed up the application’s development. On his StressFree blog, David Harrison has written a long and detailed paper, Bluestreak and the birth …

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Mar 03 2009

BIMserver.org: right technology, right time?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Legal, People issues, SaaS
3 March 2009

David Harrison’s latest StressFree blog posting talks about BIMserver and the potential of server-side BIM. It is a fascinating post, describing how the University of Eindhoven-based BIMserver.org project combines building information modelling (BIM) software and open source server technologies, rather than being reliant upon workstation-based CAD software. And this is no blue-sky project – it …