Category: AEC

Jun 02 2010

Integrated Lifecycle Solutions

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
2 June 2010

Former Constructware executives Scott Unger and Brian Moore are half-way towards their $1.5m equity funding target for a new business, Integrated Lifecycle Solutions – perhaps another sign that the US market for construction collaboration technologies is increasingly buoyant. The news (see TechJournalSouth article) follows a regulatory filing showing the team has so far raised $765,000 …

Autodesk, Brian Moore, Construction, construction collaboration technologies, Constructware, design, Emerging Solutions, equity funding, facility project management, Harvard University, Integrated Lifecycle Solutions, regulatory filing, Scott Unger, TechJournalSouth

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May 25 2010

CTSpace talks about FusionLive

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors, Web 2.0
25 May 2010

Last week I travelled to Brentford and the London offices of Sword CTSpace to learn more about the company’s FusionLive platform. After blogging about the product’s launch last month, I had been invited by business unit director John Pomeroy to meet some of the FusionLive team (including George Britton, Andre Gunter and Mathieu Pollet) and …

4Projects, Aconex, AJAX, Andre Gunter, API, Asite, asset data, Autodesk, Bentley Systems, BIM, BIW, Brentford, building information modelling, BuildOnline, Business Collaborator, Cable & Wireless, Cimage, content management, Documentum, Dubai, EDMS, Engineering Community, France, Fusion, FusionEnterprise, FusionLive, gadgets, George Britton, Germany, Google Mail, hosting, IBM, India, iPhone, John Pomeroy, marketing, Mathieu Pollet, Microsoft, Microsoft Outlook, migration, multi-tasking, NEC3, Novasoft, oil and gas, on-premise, Oracle, Outlook integration, Poland, PR, revenues, SaaS, screen-sharing, search engines, single sign-on, Software-as-a-Service, Sword CTSpace, Sword group, Tarmac Professional Services, UI, UK, Unit4 Collaboration Software, US, user interface, WIBNIs, workflow
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May 21 2010

From AsBuilt to Exquando

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
21 May 2010

From time to time, I get asked about non-UK collaboration vendors operating in mainland Europe. I can talk with some knowledge about Munich-based Conject (see The conject interview) and Madrid-based Bricsnet (see The Bricsnet interview), but otherwise I generally struggle. However, a little bit of this information gap has recently been filled with respect to …

Alstom Power and Hydro, AsBuilt, AutoVue, BIAC, Bricsnet, Brussels Airport, BuildOnline, Causeway, Cimmetry, Conject, Dara Duong, Dexia Bank, ECM, Europe, Exquando, Fabricom, Fortis Bank, Fujitsu Services, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals, LiveLink, Marc Ansoult, OpenText, Solvay

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May 20 2010

Corecon releases V7

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
20 May 2010

I last wrote about California, US-based SaaS construction software vendor Corecon Technologies almost two years ago (post). In 2008, Corecon’s, er… core business management capabilities were being expanded to include online file storage and collaboration capabilities (though not document markup/red-line or commenting capabilities). At the time, Corecon president Norman Wendl was hoping to launch v7 …

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May 19 2010

Aconex expands in north America

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
19 May 2010

It looks like north America is the new battleground for a handful of SaaS construction collaboration technology vendors more usually associated with operations in Europe and other regions. Along with UK-based 4Projects (post) and BIW Technologies (post), Australian company Aconex is rapidly expanding its operations in the US. According to a news release issued today, …

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May 18 2010

Asite’s Spring release

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors
18 May 2010

UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor Asite has released an updated version of its platform. The Spring ’10 release went ‘live’ during the evening of Friday 14 May 2010, meaning all Asite users subsequently had access to new functionality (see PDF), including: Asite’s new cMOB interface (see previous post), including mobile-enabled versions of Asite Site Manager …

Android, Asite, Asite Site Manager, Be2camp, Blackberry, cMob, community forum, construction collaboration technology, Document Manager, Electronic Goods Receipting (GRN), iPhone, Jim McHale, Memoori, mobile, poll, project risks, Safari 4.0.4, search portlet, snagging, UK, web-browser, Windows Mobile, Workspace

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May 06 2010

4Projects team expanding

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Future, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
6 May 2010

I’ve just been reading a newspaper article (Software firm 4Projects continues with recruitment drive) about how UK construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects is expanding its team. The company has added nine employees to its 60-strong team since the end of 2009, and says it is likely to add as many again by the end of …

4Projects, BIW, Calgary, Clare Watson, construction collaboration technology, Houston, Middle East, Nathan Doughty, Oregon, Portland, recession, recruitment, Sage, Sunderland, UK, US, Washington DC
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May 05 2010

Construction IT spend still very cost-conscious

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Vendors
5 May 2010

An article by Stephen Kennett, Construction is second worst investor in IT, in Building magazine (registration required) last week highlights that the UK construction sector is slowly improving its approach to information technologies, but the picture revealed by the NCC/Construct IT survey varies depending on what type of organisation you look at. Construction firms still …

architects, Building magazine, cloud computing, Construct IT, Construction, construction collaboration technology, contractors, designers, developers, health, housebuilders, IT, manufacturing, National Federation of Builders, NCC, recession, retail, SaaS, SMEs, Software-as-a-Service, Stephen Kennett, transport, virtual desktops

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May 04 2010

COBie – the bridge between BIM and collaboration technologies?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, People issues, Vendors
4 May 2010

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

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, People issues, Vendors
28 April 2010

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 …