Tag: UK

4Projects migrates to Rackspace

Users of the 4Projects SaaS construction collaboration platform have been informed that the company is migrating its UK datacentre from the BT hosting in Glasgow it has used since 2004 to Rackspace in London: This project represents months of planning and a major investment by Viewpoint to secure our infrastructure for the future.  We are pleased to announce …

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Viewpoint acquires JobPac

Jim Paulson

Viewpoint’s acquisition of Australian ERP competitor Jobpac creates a strong ANZ market leader and new tensions in its construction collaboration sector. (London, 8.15pm BST) – Viewpoint Construction Software, the Portland, Oregon, US-based construction financial software vendor, and parent company of the Newcastle, UK-based SaaS construction collaboration technology business 4Projects (acquired in February 2013), has announced …

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Conject CDE to launch at BIMShowLive

BIMShowLive will see several SaaS collaboration vendors showcasing their BIM capabilities, with Conject unveiling its CDE for the first time. Following up on its promise to raise its UK BIM profile, Anglo-German SaaS construction collaboration technology provider Conject will be exhibiting its common data environment (CDE) at the two-day BIMShowLive event in Manchester next week (8-9 …

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Conject finally enters the BIM race

Conject BIM workflows

Conject is not simply extending its document collaboration approach to embrace BIM. It is deploying key components from across its product portfolio to support the requirements of a BIM Common Data Environment. “Expect to hear much more about what Conject is doing with respect to BIM,” says UK CEO Steve Cooper. The Munich, Germany-based SaaS …

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Asite reports 17% growth

vendors profit March 2015

In the year to 30 June 2014, London, UK-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor Asite grew its revenues by 17% to £4.715m (2013: £4.011m), generating a profit of £0.635m, up from £0.511m in 2013 (download Asite’s annual report here). That 17% growth lags a little behind that recently reported for the half-year to December 2014 …

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On good (collaborative) behaviour

Alliancing

Once again, it’s not just about technology, it’s people and processes – behaviours – that support successful collaboration. I have been involved with, and enthusiastic about, Constructing Excellence almost since its foundation and have been a CE collaborative working champion for about 10 years. CE is, I think, the only pan-industry membership body in the UK …

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Asite (re)launches in USA

A year after launching its v17 Adoddle update at a St Patrick’s Day event in London (post), London-based SaaS construction collaboration technology provider Asite is staging what it describes as its official launch in North America in New York on 17 March 2015 (news release). The event will include an open bar and traditional Irish music and canapes, …

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For Level 3 BIM, read Digital Built Britain

Last week saw the “launch” of Digital Built Britain, the preferred branding for the UK’s Level 3 Building Information Modelling (BIM) programme. The work is apparently intended to “build on the standards and savings delivered by the BIM level 2 initiative which has been central to the £840M savings achieved on central public spend in …

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Rapiere to launch at Ecobuild

UK-based Rapiere’s cloud-hosted software “calculates embodied carbon, whole-life energy use, and creates live cost models and comparisons” Rapiere, “a unique system designed by the industry for the industry and [representing] the next generation carbon, energy and cost modelling platform for the built environment which runs in the cloud” is being launched at this week’s Ecobuild …

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CodeBook getting a little SaaS-y

CodeBook Database

Surrey, UK-based software developer CodeBook International has started to offer cloud-based data hosting for its solutions, which complement most well-known BIM authoring applications. A little CodeBook background CodeBook was founded in 1993 by architect Peter Mann who developed an application to help those involved in brief preparation, design, construction, fitting-out and operation of large, complex buildings …

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