Category: AEC

Nov 01 2006

US: Trimble buys Meridian Project Systems

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
1 November 2006

Latest collaboration news from the USA concerns the acquisition in an all-cash deal (terms not disclosed) of leading project management software business Meridian Project Systems by GPS and mobile IT systems specialist Trimble – the latter’s seventh acquisition of 2006 (says AECnews.com). Trimble has been assembling a suite of software, hardware and services with the …

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Oct 30 2006

BuildOnline statistics

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, Vendors
30 October 2006

Thanks to a software review in the latest (November 2006) issue of Project Manager Today, we learn that UK AEC vendor BuildOnline: "markets a ‘project extranet’ hosted Web system, that has 8,000 customers and 1,300 projects and programmes currently on the go, with 43,000 users; all in the construction industry. … there are currently 3.7 …

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Oct 27 2006

CE Avanti – ICT or not ICT?

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet
27 October 2006

The Avanti initiative is now part of the portfolio of initiatives managed by Constructing Excellence. The branding is a bit confusing. On the one hand, the logo subheading says "ICT-enabled collaborative working", leading one to think that there is some technological foundation, but the latest glossy brochure I have (distributed at a Building & Estates …

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Oct 24 2006

BIM – Asite targets US

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
24 October 2006

Earlier this month, UK-based collaboration vendor Asite announced that it planned to release a collaborative BIM product (see 10 October post). It has just issued a further press release saying it will be announcing (again) the “forthcoming release of Asite Collaborative BIM at the Building SMART Week Conference” in Washington DC next week. BuildingSMART is the recent preferred …

Asite, BIM, BuildingSMART, collaboration, Construction, extranet, IAI, IFC, UK
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Oct 24 2006

BIM – some background reading

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Future, Internet
24 October 2006

Are all your construction contacts clamouring to switch to BIM (building information modelling)? No. Neither are mine. However, there is certainly growing interest in what BIM might have to offer, and over the last few days I have found myself reading more about it. For example: On AEC Cadalyst, I read a great article by US-based …

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Oct 18 2006

Factors in buying software

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
18 October 2006

In “Why Do You Buy CAD Software? Survey Result (preliminary)“, Roopinder Tara of the CAD Insider blog (and the useful TenLinksDaily newsletter) gives an early indication of the key factors used in assessing CAD software for purchase – based on an online survey (still ongoing at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=891102592287). After over 120 responses, the key factors (listed in …

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Oct 12 2006

CJ Construction Industry Awards 2006

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, ROI/benefits, Vendors
12 October 2006

I have just skimmed through a supplement to this week’s UK trade magazine Contract Journal covering its annual awards event. Working in IT, I turned first to the IT Award page. This year’s winner was the BAA T5 project at London Heathrow Airport, rewarded for its 3D single model environment. Shortlisted in the same category …

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Oct 06 2006

Construction Computing Awards 2006

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
6 October 2006

Nominations closed for the Construction Computing Awards (see previous post) on 15 September and voting on the final shortlists has now commenced. UK collaboration vendors are well represented among the finalists: 4Projects and BuildOnline both feature in three categories, as do Sarcophagus (two related to its collaboration system, the other for Etenderer). BIW Technologies features in five …

4Projects, AEC, BIW, BuildOnline, Causeway, collaboration, Construction Computing, extranet, magazine, Sarcophagus, UK
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Sep 28 2006

Dochosting Data Management

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
28 September 2006

After discovering Dochosting via Contract Journal (see previous post), I have tried to find out more about the company. The Dochosting website is, to say the least, sketchy on details of the company, giving only telephone and fax numbers (not even an email address!); no postal address or contact names either. From the STD code of …

AEC, collaboration, Dochosting, extranet, UK
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Sep 28 2006

Contract Journal feature on online collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
28 September 2006

UK weekly Contract Journal has published a feature on online collaboration, written by Rebecca Froley. This mentions the findings of the NCCTP market research and links to the NCCTP website. Unfortunately, only half the NCCTP members are mentioned by name (no links or reference to two of the UK market’s major players BIW Technologies or Business …