Category: Future

Oct 25 2007

Software incompatibility bar to interoperability

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Future, Internet
25 October 2007

In the US, McGraw-Hill Construction has just published its Interoperability SmartMarket Report, providing insight into the interoperability of AEC software applications and platforms (see news release) – a key issue given that “interoperability costs add 3.1% to a typical project budget” (not dissimilar to previous US estimates – eg: back in 2004,a NIST report estimated …

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Oct 25 2007

Australian collaboration technology research

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, People issues, ROI/benefits, SaaS
25 October 2007

An article, Zavanti to analyse use of collaboration technology by the Australia Construction Industry, on Australia’s infolink website says that Zavanti (formerly Powyr) has launched a market research project designed to investigate the use of construction collaboration technologies and project extranets by the Australian construction industry. It says the study, conducted by John Lowry from …

Australia, construction collaboration technologies, extranet, John Lowry, market research, NCCTP, Zavanti

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Oct 19 2007

Facebook and BIW comparison

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Legal, Marketing, People issues
19 October 2007

I had an interesting message from a BIW user and EE blog reader via Facebook. She made an interesting comparison (partly in relation to the email-type application embedded in BIW’s collaboration platform): “This morning I … had this thought that Facebook is similar to BIW in a way. FB is heavily emphasizing usage of ‘team-mail’ (if …

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Oct 17 2007

IT and sustainable construction – 3

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, Sustainability
17 October 2007

I spoke at yesterday’s EMCBE Expo 2007 Construction Conference in Rockingham, Northamptonshire, on the theme of Sustainability: the IT contribution (see previous post). Due to time constraints (more about that in a moment), I couldn’t use all the material I intended. I had brought with me a press cutting from Sunday’s Observer newspaper of this …

BIW Technologies, collaboration, Construction, EMCBE, Expo 2007, Observer, paper, sustainability

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Oct 04 2007

IT and sustainable construction – 2

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Future, Internet, People issues, Sustainability
4 October 2007

While I was writing yesterday’s post, an email discussion about the Draft Strategy had begun among Constructing Excellence ‘s Collaborative Working Champions (of which I am one of the latest tranche). I volunteered to start work on a paper to form part of a collective response to the consultation document (we have until 30 November …

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Oct 03 2007

IT and sustainable construction

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, ROI/benefits, Sustainability, Vendors
3 October 2007

On 16 October, I am speaking at the EMCBE Expo 2007 Construction Conference at Rockingham in Northamptonshire, on the theme of Sustainability: the IT contribution. This regional event includes a presentation regarding the UK government’s “Draft Strategy for Sustainable Construction”, and in prepararing my contribution, I had a look through the document to see what it …

BIW Technologies, Cadweb, collaboration, Construction, EMCBE, ePin, Expo 2007, sustainability, Union Square

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Sep 24 2007

NEC case study in “Building”

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Legal, People issues, Vendors
24 September 2007

Last week I mentioned the NCCTP supplement to Building magazine (published Friday 14 September). After a slight delay due to technical problems, the whole supplement is now viewable online. I noticed a small coincidence between the supplement and the main magazine. The latter included a lengthy piece by Davis Langdon‘s Simon Rawlinson: “Procurement – Target …

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Sep 20 2007

NCCTP at Constructing Excellence members’ convention

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Marketing, Vendors
20 September 2007

The NCCTP was introduced as the latest membership forum within Constructing Excellence at yesterday’s Members’ Convention in London (see post), and half the NCCTP members were represented by staff at the event (4Projects, Aconex [no fewer than five of their people!], Asite and BIW). I also had a long chat with Karl Williams of the …

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Sep 17 2007

Novedge interview

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

I was flattered last week to be interviewed by Franco Folini of the Novedge blog, keen to know my thoughts about how construction collaboration technologies might be employed on AEC projects in the future and examine some of the issues affecting adoption. The finished interview is now online here.

collaboration, Construction, extranets, Franco Folini, Novedge

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Sep 07 2007

More SaaS stuff

By Paul Wilkinson in Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
7 September 2007

Further to yesterday’s posting (and also my 16 July note), ASPnews.com has published two further articles from Julie Craig in its series on software-as-a-service (SaaS): The SaaS Steamroller (14 August) underlines the challenges traditional software vendors face if looking to re-engineer their businesses to become SaaS providers, while Weighing the Pros and Cons of SaaS …