Category: AEC

Mar 05 2007

Photo library

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Marketing
5 March 2007

In a footnote to an article last year, I noted that two separate collaboration vendors (Dochosting Data Management and Business Collaborator) were both using very similar photographs. I hope the photographer is keeping track of his royalty payments – I have just seen the DDM image used in an e-newsletter from Dubai-based Construction Week (see …

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Mar 02 2007

Viewing design visuals (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues
2 March 2007

Having looked at collaboration for viewing marketing collateral, etc, I have just read a fascinating AECbyte by Lachmi Khemlani. In Exploring Second Life and its Potential in Real Life AEC, she describes her (or her avatar’s) first steps into Second Life – the online virtual reality “alternate” world. She describes how one US architectural firm, …

AEC, AECbytes, BIM, CAD, collaboration, Second Life

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Feb 26 2007

CAD collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Telecoms, Vendors
26 February 2007

Earlier this month, I mentioned New Zealand-based David Harrisons’ Stress-Free blog. In a more recent, long post entitled CAD Collaboration, he discusses the challenge of collaborating around CAD models. He gives a good outline of how teams have used technology to share CAD information to date, including the use of what he calls “external document management”. …

4Projects, Adept, AEC, Asite, Autodesk, Bentley ProjectWise, BIW, blog, Buzzsaw, CAD, collaboration, Constructing Excellence, Construction, David Harrison, Eskudos, IFC, National Platform for the Built Environment, Project Divercity, Stress-free, VDEFT
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Feb 22 2007

BricsNet, Bricsys and Vondle

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
22 February 2007

Ralph Grabowski at WorldCAD Access alerts us to the change of name of Belgium-based CAD vendor BricsCAD to Bricsys. He also briefly mentions collaboration vendor BricsNet, but doesn’t delve into the history – which is quite interesting from a construction collaboration point of view. To recap, BricsNet was originally founded as BricsWorks in 1986 by …

AEC, ASP, Belgium, BricsCad, Bricsnet, Bricsys, collaboration, Construction, extranet, licensing, Vista, Vondle
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Feb 22 2007

What’s going on within Hochtief

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, SaaS, Vendors
22 February 2007

Contract Journal’s regular feature on well-known construction groups this week features Hochtief Construction. The usual question on project collaboration elicits the following response from UK business development director Mike Robertson: “For projects, we use one of three tools: Business Collaborator or Asite or, on our Glendoe site [£130m Scottish tunnel-boring project], we have Eplass. Some …

AEC, Asite, Business Collaborator, collaboration, Construction, Contract Journal, Eplass, extranet, Germany, Hochtief UK, Imagenation, SEIB
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Feb 22 2007

Collaborate via Blackberry

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Telecoms, Vendors
22 February 2007

At the Autodesk Connected blog Alex Willingham talks about using the US-based Constructware construction collaboration system via a Blackberry wireless device. The tools clearly focus on document collaboration rather than drawings, which is hardly surprising. I regularly hear seasoned AEC professionals moaning about how it is more difficult to view and mark-up drawings on-screen than …

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Feb 21 2007

Disappearing domains

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Internet, Marketing
21 February 2007

Sorting out some old website bookmarks on my home PC, I found a few construction IT and e-business ones dating back, in some cases, to 2000 (ie: before the dot.com bubble burst in 2001). Since then, numerous businesses have merged, rebranded or simply disappeared; for example: Architec.net – “page cannot be displayed” Bidcom – merged into Citadon, which …

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Feb 17 2007

Leading, largest, global – how do you measure it?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
17 February 2007

Australian-based construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex says it is now “providing its online information management service to $100 billion worth of construction and engineering projects” (I’m not sure if this is US dollars or Australian dollars; in British pounds sterling, this would be around £50bn or £40bn respectively). According to its news release: “Global uptake of the …

Aconex, AEC, Autodesk, BIW, collaboration, Construction, CTSpace, extranet, on-demand, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, statistics
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Feb 13 2007

ACT-UK

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Future, Marketing, Vendors
13 February 2007

ACT-UK, the UK West Midlands-based National Centre for Advanced Construction Technologies, was launched at the end of last month (see 31 January news release). It aims to become a “centre of excellence for the construction industry, creating a knowledge based environment where education, inspiration and innovation flourish”, and is backed by various national and regional partner …

ACT-UK, Asite, CIOB, CITB, collaboration, Constructing Excellence, Egan, extranet, National Centre for Advanced Construction Technologies

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Feb 13 2007

Spacedox

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
13 February 2007

A comment (an admirably succinct “Projectdox plus”) on my recent Projectdox rejects SaaS approach post led me to look at the website of US document collaboration vendor Spacedox. The site tells me a bit about the web-based hosted service, but not much about the firm behind it (no corporate ‘about us’ or ‘latest news’ to help users …