Category: Extranet/CDE

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 …

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Mar 22 2007

2006: OK for StoreData

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

In the year ending 31 December 2006, Styles & Woods’ StoreData division did not achieve the “penetration of new customers” that it planned but it apparently still achieved its annual targets, according its preliminary results released to the Stock Exchange today. Engaged in bespoke development of the Union Square Workspace product (see last year’s posts Styles & …

AEC, Asda, Barclays, BIW, collaboration, Construction, extranet, Marks & Spencer, Nationwide, Sainsbury's, Sarcophagus, statistics, StoreData, Styles & Wood, Tesco, UK
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Mar 15 2007

Business Collaborator grows in 2006

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Vendors
15 March 2007

According to the latest annual report (see Stock Exchange notice) from Coda plc, its subsidiary UK collaboration vendor Business Collaborator continued to grow in the year ending 31 December 2006: “We are delighted that the strong performance in 2005 has continued again in 2006. The membership of the SEDEX program (Supplier Ethical Data Exchange) has continued …

AEC, BIW, Business Collaborator, Coda, collaboration, Construction, extranet, profit, SaaS, Software-as-a-Service, turnover, UK
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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 …