Category: Extranet/CDE

Nov 26 2005

RICS e-tendering guidance note: a review

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, Vendors
26 November 2005

Just over two weeks ago (11 November), I spoke to the East Midlands branch of the RICS about e-tendering. This is currently something of a hot topic, following the publication of an RICS guidance note in late October and a small flurry of articles about the guidance in magazines such as QS News (I particularly …

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Nov 23 2005

Office email: a waste of time

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Internet, People issues
23 November 2005

If you’ve read my book, you may recall that I was a little critical of over-reliance on email as a means to communicate within project teams (p.24). On Silicon.com today I read that "email is a productivity killer in the enterprise". Research by Mirapoint showed that nearly a quarter of all emails in corporate inboxes …

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Nov 22 2005

Business Link guide to extranets (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing
22 November 2005

I accompanied my 1 November post with an email to Business Link pointing out the paucity of UK-relevant information provided. Today I got a bland reply: "Thank you for your feedback regarding the Businesslink.gov.uk website. "We are conscious of the fact that there are limited UK web resources with regard to extranets, however we …

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Nov 21 2005

Aconex joins NCCTP

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, Vendors
21 November 2005

Australian-founded Aconex has become the latest construction collaboration technology provider to join the UK trade body, the NCCTP, according to a brief announcement on the latter’s website. The site also now features a short Aconex case study, but it concerns a project undertaken in Australia not in the UK. Given that Aconex has been active …

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Nov 18 2005

Autodesk ROI research revisited

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Books, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
18 November 2005

[Apologies: this is a long-than-usual post] A week after the Construction Computing Show in London, I finally got round to flicking through a copy of Construction Computing magazine that I picked up there. It incorporates an issue of CAD User magazine wherein I saw a now familiar face: Mark Ellis, business manager of Autodesk Collaboration …

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Nov 15 2005

NCCTP Conference, London – impressions

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
15 November 2005

Having been involved in the organisation of today’s NCCTP conference in central London, I am slightly biassed, but I think it was the best event of its kind that I have been to. More than 90 people came to the Radisson Hotel in Portman Square to learn more about construction collaboration technologies (AKA extranets) in …

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Nov 14 2005

Looking forward to the NCCTP Conference tomorrow

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Marketing, People issues, ROI/benefits, Vendors
14 November 2005

The NCCTP’s first conference, entitled ‘Making collaboration pay’ is being held tomorrow at the SAS Radisson Hotel in Portman Square, central London. We expect around 85 attendees at the event, and it should be a fascinating conference, combining plenary and workshop sessions. There will be speakers from national representative organisations, such as Constructing Excellence and …

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Nov 11 2005

Contract Journal IT survey

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, Vendors
11 November 2005

Contract Journal reports that ‘Four out of five construction firms plan increased IT spend’, according to a CJ study of 500 people conducted with Causeway Technologies. It gives a fairly positive view of construction’s attitude to IT, with some 79% saying their firms were increasing their IT spend. Process efficiency and compatibility with existing systems …

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Nov 09 2005

Construction Computing Show, first day

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Marketing, Vendors
9 November 2005

Met lots of familiar faces during the first day of the Construction Computing Show at the Barbican in London – not least because BIW is sharing a stand with its fellow NCCTP members. Gave a lunchtime seminar presentation with Duncan Mactear of 4Projects which seemed to go well. Pushed the NCCTP conference a bit – …

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Nov 08 2005

Cadweb say “Death to folders!”

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Vendors
8 November 2005

There are new developments afoot at Cadweb. Its latest news release quotes extensively from an Economist Technology Quarterly article which predicts the end of the nested directories of folders and files familiar to many computer users. Instead, it seems we will have built-in powerful search engines, ‘tagged files’ and ‘smart folders’. With version 7 of …