Category: Internet

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 …

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

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 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 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

UK CAD managers survey 2007

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Functionality, Internet, People issues
14 March 2007

Last March, I wrote about Evolve Consultancy‘s UK CAD Managers Survey 2006 (see Email used to issue 65% of CAD information). The 2007 edition has just been published, but as I can’t afford £199 for the full results, I will have to make do with the main headline findings summarised in the news release. No …

CAD, email, Evolve Consultancy, extranets

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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, …