Category: AEC

Apr 17 2007

BIM – realistically, still over the horizon

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues
17 April 2007

AECcafe.com has reprinted a couple of interesting articles from AIArchitect by Michael Tardif, both on the subject on Building Information Modelling (BIM): Faith-based BIM (originally published 27 October 2006) BIM 2011: A Five-year Forecast (5 January 2007) BIM “not yet” The first article starts by echoing an argument I made in my book in that, despite …

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Apr 13 2007

ex-Graphisoft execs establish Vico

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Internet, Marketing
13 April 2007

As previously mentioned, the BIW office in Woking is in a building which also houses software business Graphisoft – no, make that “housed”. Graphisoft… some of the firm’s executives have now set up a new business, Vico Software, having acquired the Graphisoft Virtual Construction product line following the December 2006 acquisition of Graphisoft by Nemetschek. Now, 21-25 …

AEC, BIW, Graphisoft, Nemetschek, software, UK, Vico, virtual construction, Woking

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Apr 13 2007

ePIN overhauls website (3)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
13 April 2007

Just over a year ago, I mentioned that, ePIN, one of the smaller UK vendors of construction collaboration technology had refreshed its website. This must be an annual task, for they have just done it again (ePIN director Robin Shipston told me in October that it was “being re-vamped as we speak”) – and it is one of …

AEC, construction collaboration technology, ePin, extranet, goldfish, Robin Shipston, UK, website

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Apr 10 2007

United Construction IT (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues
10 April 2007

Last month’s update regarding the United Construction IT umbrella group has been quickly followed by an announcement from two of the UK organisations involved: the Construction Industry Computing Association (CICA) and its parent, the NCC. According to NCC’s Michael Gough, there has been: “a complete rethink of CICA’s offering and business model to ensure that we continue …

AEC, CICA, Construction Industry Computing Association, extranet, UK, United Construction IT

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Apr 02 2007

4Projects sales reach £3.4m

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
2 April 2007

According to a 24 March 2007 article, Jobs created as group wins new markets, in north-east England newspaper The Journal, UK construction collaboration vendor 4Projects has “currently” achieved sales of £3.4m, and “is expected to reach £5m by the beginning of next year”. 4Projects non-executive chairman Paul Callaghan said: “With 4Project [sic] we supply project management software services …

4Projects, AEC, BIW Technologies, Business Collaborator, collaboration, Construction, extranet, StoreData, Styles & Wood, turnover, UK
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Mar 30 2007

Ecospace

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, Vendors
30 March 2007

UK trade publication, Building, says: “A big complaint about collaboration tools is that everybody is familiar with a different system, which means companies have to spend time and money training their staff when they start a new project.” It goes on to report that UK collaboration vendor Business Collaborator is working on Ecospace, a €12m (£8.1m) …

AEC, Business Collaborator, collaboration, Construction, Ecospace, extranet, UK

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Mar 30 2007

Asite BIM

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
30 March 2007

Software news in the latest issue of UK construction industry magazine, Building, talks about Asite BIM, suggesting that the UK project collaboration vendor is “about to shake up the world of online collaboration again with the launch of an online single building model”. “Users will be able to collaborate on the design of the …

AEC, Asite, BIM, building information modelling, Octaga AS, Octaga Modeller, UK, viewer
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Mar 29 2007

Business Collaborator website overhauled

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
29 March 2007

The website of UK construction collaboration technology vendor Business Collaborator has just been overhauled. Compared to the clean interface of the previous site, the new home page is much ‘busier’ with a four-column layout and lots of links to further information. (The trite photo-library image of people in hard-hats on a construction site – see …

AEC, Business Collaborator, collaboration, Construction, extranet, marketing, UK, website

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Mar 29 2007

Brava! woes at 4Projects?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, SaaS, Vendors
29 March 2007

Industry sources tell me that UK construction collaboration vendor 4Projects has been having major problems with its third-party drawing viewer application (Brava! from Informative Graphics). I have been emailed several bulletins from 4Projects’ status ticker, spread over a three-day period up to and including this morning: Updated 29/03/2007 10:02:30 – We are still experiencing problems with …

4Projects, AEC, Brava!, collaboration, Construction, extranet, Informative Graphics, viewer
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Mar 29 2007

BIM and ‘lean construction’

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, People issues
29 March 2007

Further to Monday’s post on BIM, I see Nigel Davies at EatYourCAD has written about (Mis)understanding BIM. Helpfully, he starts by explaining what BIM is not – in short, BIM is not 3D, or Revit, or a single database or “single building model”, or Project Lifeycle Management, or even Building Information Modelling (instead, Nigel prefers to …