Category: Future

May 04 2007

Autodesk sustainability survey at Think 07

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Future, Marketing, People issues
4 May 2007

The recent Think 07 exhibition and conference event in London was used by Autodesk as an opportunity to canvass the opinions of visitors to the event on sustainability. The results are reported by Cadalyst (SURVEY: Better Collaboration, the Right Tools and Technology are Key to Sustainable Design). Of those questioned, 61% said that sustainability was now …

Autodesk, Cadalyst, sustainability, Think 07

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May 04 2007

A look at BuildingSMART

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet
4 May 2007

After my day at the BuildingSMART conference in London last month, it was interesting to read AECcafe.com‘s fairly detailed look at what the BuildingSMART Alliance is doing. It’s also quite topical as there have been a few news stories about software vendors (eg: Nemetschek, Bentley) achieving IFC compliance.

BuildingSMART, IFC, interoperability, Nemetschek

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Apr 25 2007

Asite 2006 financials

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Future, Vendors
25 April 2007

Much earlier than in previous years, the latest annual results from UK-based collaboration vendor Asite have just been released (view Stock Exchange announcement). The gradual downward slide in Asite’s turnover shows no sign of abating (see previous posts on interims and 2005 results; this is not a ‘dip’ in sales, as Hemscott reports). Turnover for …

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Apr 24 2007

Google spreadsheets (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet
24 April 2007

Last June, I blogged about Google’s new web-based spreadsheet application but bemoaned the lack of graphs, etc. The gap has been filled, at least partially. Docs and Spreadsheets now has a charting function – a bit rudimentary compared to Microsoft Excel, but a step forward nonetheless. Tags: Google spreadsheet charts

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Apr 24 2007

Wi-fi? Why worry?

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, Telecoms
24 April 2007

Watching the local BBC television news bulletin last night, there was a brief story about the new City of London Wi-fi network, but the reporter couldn’t help but link it to a weekend news report about health concerns associated with wi-fi networks. Fortunately, such fears have been put into context in another BBC article, Wi-fi? Why …

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Apr 19 2007

BuildingSMART Conference, London

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues
19 April 2007

I attended the BuildingSMART conference in London yesterday and, as with many UK construction IT events these days (and despite the presence of significant delegations from Scandinavia and the US), found myself meeting a few familiar faces. Asite people, including CEO Tony Ryan and technical director Nathan Doughty, were there in force to support a demonstration of their …

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Apr 17 2007

BIM – realistically, still over the horizon

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

AECcafe.com has reprinted a couple of interesting articles from AIArchitect by Michael Tardif, both on the subject on Building Information Modelling (BIM): Faith-based BIM (originally published 27 October 2006) BIM 2011: A Five-year Forecast (5 January 2007) BIM “not yet” The first article starts by echoing an argument I made in my book in that, despite …

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Apr 10 2007

United Construction IT (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Extranet/CDE, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues
10 April 2007

Last month’s update regarding the United Construction IT umbrella group has been quickly followed by an announcement from two of the UK organisations involved: the Construction Industry Computing Association (CICA) and its parent, the NCC. According to NCC’s Michael Gough, there has been: “a complete rethink of CICA’s offering and business model to ensure that we continue …

AEC, CICA, Construction Industry Computing Association, extranet, UK, United Construction IT

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Mar 30 2007

Ecospace

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, Vendors
30 March 2007

UK trade publication, Building, says: “A big complaint about collaboration tools is that everybody is familiar with a different system, which means companies have to spend time and money training their staff when they start a new project.” It goes on to report that UK collaboration vendor Business Collaborator is working on Ecospace, a €12m (£8.1m) …

AEC, Business Collaborator, collaboration, Construction, Ecospace, extranet, UK

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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 …