Category: Future

Mar 29 2007

From SaaS to ‘Webware’

By Paul Wilkinson in Blogs, Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
29 March 2007

Following on from my previous post (about defining BIM), my favourite Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) blogger, Phil Wainewright has identified a new alternative term for SaaS. In So long SaaS, welcome webware, Phil also links to a new Webware website, and, as “SaaS is a throwback to the past”, gives the older term “a couple years at most”. One slight complication is …

on-demand, Phil Wainewright, SaaS, Webware

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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 26 2007

Wikis and AEC collaboration

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, People issues, ROI/benefits, SaaS
26 March 2007

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is the starting point of a contributed article to AECbytes.com. In Enterprise Wiki: An Emerging Technology to be Considered by the AEC Industry, Ondrej Kalny likens the information-sharing approach of BIM to the wider need for collaboration within a typical AEC project team, using a ‘hub and spokes’ diagram that will …

AEC, BIW, collaboration, Construction, extranet, Feilden Clegg Bradley, intranet, knowledge management, Ondrej Kalny, wiki
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Mar 26 2007

Use of BIM

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future
26 March 2007

In an article, Use of BIM, at AECcafe.com, Susan Smith writes about the difficulty in assessing how widely Building Information Modelling (BIM) is used. She says: “Many vendors would have the public believe that BIM is used in an enormous number of occasions…” but “It is difficult for vendors to qualify where BIM is being …

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Mar 23 2007

Uniting Construction IT

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, Marketing
23 March 2007

Last September (see A co-ordinated approach to construction IT in the UK), I mentioned an initiative to create a more coordinated approach to managing IT interests in the UK AEC industry. You can now read about United Construction IT on the website of ConstructIT for Business (one of the organisations competing for our attention). It talks about creating “one …

AEC, Avanti, BRE, BSRIA, CICA, CITE, COMIT, Construct IT for Business, Constructing Excellence, IAI, ICE, ITCF, NCC, NCCTP, UK, United Construction IT
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Mar 14 2007

SaaS boom to continue

By Paul Wilkinson in Future, Internet, Marketing, SaaS
14 March 2007

“According to Gartner, the market for SaaS applications grew by 26 percent last year, from $5 billion in 2005 to $6.3 billion in 2006. The consulting firm expects demand for SaaS to continue growing at a 25 percent compound annual rate over the next five years, to $19.3 billion by 2011. Most of those …

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Mar 14 2007

DWF v PDF v other formats

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet
14 March 2007

In my book, I devote a short section to discussion of the file formats commonly used in construction collaboration. A more comprehensive overview of the subject is given in David Harrison’s Stress-free blog, in an article entitled Why Autodesk should ‘Open’ DWF. David extends the analysis beyond my basic comparison of DWF and PDF formats; …

2D, 3D, BIM, CAD, contract, David Harrison, DWF, IFC, JCT, PDF, Stress-free, trust
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Mar 02 2007

Viewing design visuals (2)

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues
2 March 2007

Having looked at collaboration for viewing marketing collateral, etc, I have just read a fascinating AECbyte by Lachmi Khemlani. In Exploring Second Life and its Potential in Real Life AEC, she describes her (or her avatar’s) first steps into Second Life – the online virtual reality “alternate” world. She describes how one US architectural firm, …

AEC, AECbytes, BIM, CAD, collaboration, Second Life

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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

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 …