My previous post, It’s been about collaboration all along, highlighted some emerging similarities between UK and US practices with regard to collaborative working – partly driven (at least in the USA) by the need to rethink industry approaches to management of people and processes as building information modelling (BIM) looms larger on the industry horizon. …
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Apr 28 2010
It’s been about collaboration all along
I have been a member of the UK change organisation Constructing Excellence‘s Collaborative Working Champions for some years. My interest in this area started in the 1990s when I worked in what was then Tarmac (now Carillion) Professional Services and my line manager was Shonagh Hay. She was a member of the Reading Construction Forum …
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Apr 20 2010
More mobile, more Australian
Having just blogged about Australian company Constrex and their Tender.ly application (post), I now find myself writing about another Australian company, All Over Geo, which is developing location-aware mobile solutions for use on-site on construction projects. The first solution is an iPhone app called Foreman’s Mate, aimed at improving safety and increasing productivity, and All …
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Apr 19 2010
Asite mobile solution launching soon
Asite‘s Paul Markovits has been blogging about the UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor’s forthcoming mobile solution, Asite cMob. A launch of this looks likely in the next couple of weeks, it seems. This has been on the cards for several months, following a consultation process managed through the Asite community forum late last summer …
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Jan 28 2010
Exit Business Collaborator – enter UNIT4 Collaboration Software Ltd
With the parent company, Unit 4 Agresso NV, announcing a groupwide name change to UNIT4, UK construction collaboration technology vendor Business Collaborator will be rebranded as Unit4 Collaboration Software Ltd with effect from 1 February. The announcement follows various acquisitions by the group which is now one of the world’s leading ERP software suppliers. It …
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Jan 18 2010
The Bricsnet interview
Having been impressed by Bricsnet‘s marketing during the dot.com boom years, I followed developments sporadically (mainly because the ProjectCenter extranet product was not heavily marketed in the UK), and have only mentioned the company in this blog a handful of times over the past four years – most recently last November (posts here and here). …
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Jan 14 2010
Asite reaches profitability
It’s taken a while, around nine years in fact, but UK construction collaboration technology vendor Asite has finally reached profitability. According to unaudited figures in a trading statement released on its website today, the London-based company had gross revenues of £2.079m in 2009 (up 10% from £1.89m in 2008), and partly by driving down operating …
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Jan 11 2010
“BIW on the back foot?”
Nathan Doughty yesterday interrupted a long silence on his Free Collaboration blog to post some details of the latest filings to the UK’s Companies House by [my former employer*] BIW Technologies. In BIW on the back foot?, he references this blog and makes a few statements that I would like to comment upon…. I was …
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Dec 09 2009
4Projects and profitability
“We’re not always given credit for the consistent profitability we’ve achieved for a business that received no early start-up funding.” I recently met Steve Nelson, finance director of UK construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects, to learn more about the history of the company, its funding and the 2007 management buy-out (MBO) – the meeting took …
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Nov 30 2009
An open letter to the new Chief Construction Adviser
[This is a re-post of an article from my pwcom blog, published 27 November 2009. Update (04 December): I added a post-script to the original post – read the response received back from Paul Morrell.] First mooted in July 2008, the appointment of the UK government’s first Chief Construction Advisor was finally announced this week. …
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