Category: AEC

Dec 05 2007

Share and share alike

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, SaaS, Vendors
5 December 2007

Jerry Laiserin ‘s latest AEC Insight column at Cadalyst usefully segments the US market for online plan rooms and what he calls project collaboration networks (PCNs) – ie: construction collaboration technologies as they are described in the UK – as in NCCTP, for example. In Share and share alike (which, in passing, rightly describes the …

4Projects, Adobe, Asite, Attolist, BIM, BIW Technologies, Buzzsaw, Cadalyst, Causeway Technologies, Constructing Excellence, construction collaboration technologies, Constructware, CTSpace, e-Builder, Expesite, extranet, FTP, Jerry Laiserin, NCCTP, Newforma, online plan room, PCN, ProjectWise, SharePoint, US, WebArchives

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Nov 28 2007

IT and sustainability – 4

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, Internet, ROI/benefits, Sustainability
28 November 2007

Apologies for the lack of posts this week. I have been putting the finishing touches to a document on ICT and construction sustainability (see IT and sustainable construction) prior to sending it to a few carefully chosen friends for some feedback. I am trying to conclude the document by Friday (30 November): deadline for submissions to …

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Nov 26 2007

Asite Workspace demo on YouTube

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
26 November 2007

To help companies capture potential sales leads, they normally ask users to enter some contact details before they can view or download some sales materials from their websites. UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor Asite is no exception when it comes to its Asite Workspace application – except that it is now possible to view the …

Asite, Tony Ryan, Workspace, YouTube

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Nov 26 2007

More website woes

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Vendors
26 November 2007

I talked last month about the problems of websites suddenly becoming unavailable. After BIW, 4Projects and ePIN, the latest UK collaboration vendor to suffer a website outage is Sarcophagus. [Update (27 November): Site back live again.]

4Projects, BIW Technologies, ePin, Sarcophagus, website

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Nov 23 2007

Take-up of BIM growing

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues
23 November 2007

An article in US journal Building Design & Construction reports that US adoption of building information modelling (BIM) applications is accelerating (thanks to Mel at the Elemental blog for the link). More than a third of roughly 200 owners (collectively representing c.$115 billion in annual construction spending) responding to the 8th Annual Construction Management Association …

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Nov 22 2007

IT at the heart of collaborative working

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, People issues
22 November 2007

Earlier this year, the NCCTP became a membership forum within Constructing Excellence. Chief Executive Don Ward was enthusiastic about the move at the time, and has since started to preach the virtues of IT in supporting collaborative working. He recently wrote an article “The common touch” in the November/December issue of RICS’ Construction Journal, where …

Constructing Excellence, Construction Journal, Don Ward, NCCTP, RICS

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Nov 22 2007

Avanti SMP in new draft BS1192

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Future, Internet
22 November 2007

The Construction Computing no-Show at least saw me meet up with a few friends gathered over a decade of involvement with construction IT (among them, one of the pioneers of online collaboration, Ray Crotty of C3 Systems, and Marek Suchocki, formerly at Atkins, now at Mouchel). Mervyn Richards also strolled by, and gave me an update on progress since …

Avanti, BS1192, SMP

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Nov 22 2007

No-Show Day Two

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Marketing, Vendors
22 November 2007

If anything, day two of the Construction Computing 2007 show was worse than day one. Thankfully, the day was shorter – 10am to 3pm – but several exhibitors voted with their feet long before the end. Indeed, my BIW colleague and I were packed up and ready to leave by 3pm, and we walked past …

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Nov 21 2007

The Great Construction Computing no-show

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Marketing, Vendors
21 November 2007

I stood on the BIW Technologies stand today, and I waited … and I waited…. And people on neighbouring stands waited … and waited…. Then we started muttering to each other…. And then some started muttering discontentedly to the event organisers, BTC…. Yes, the first day of the Construction Computing Show 2007 – despite its new …

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Nov 19 2007

Construction Computing Show 2007 – update

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Marketing
19 November 2007

The number of exhibitors for this year’s event (see previous post) has now reached 36. This is not bad, particularly considering that the event also suffers from an unfortunate date clash with the much bigger Civils 2007 show, also in London but at Earl’s Court. It should only take about half an hour to cross London on the …