Category: Internet

May 17 2006

BIW user conference 2006

No posts yesterday as I was managing the BIW user conference at the (fantastic) Oval conference centre in London. Previously, we used to run a series workshops for small groups (15-20 or so) at the BIW offices; this year, we decided to do one big event to promote greater interaction between users and with BIW …

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May 12 2006

Aconex selected for train station development (2)

Earlier this week, I received an email asking that I remove some content from one of my posts in early March regarding a train station project at London’s White City with which UK contractor Costain was involved. I promptly and prominently published a correction immediately underneath the original post, apologising and explaining that the inaccuracy …

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May 11 2006

Wi-fi access, again (2)

I keep returning to this topic. Latest stimulus is Peter Cochrane’s blog at Silicon.com where he provides his Guide to finding wi-fi. (By coincidence, this post was written at lunchtime in a hotel lobby in Dublin using a low(ish) cost wi-fi connection (five Euros for an hour) provided by Jury’s Inn; it was later updated …

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May 08 2006

WSP “driven by what our clients want”

The latest "Contract Journal" company profile (see Cyril Sweett on BIW in late March and Rok set on in-house capability in January) features consultancy business WSP. On the project collaboration tools question, Andy Scott, global IT director says: "… Internally, we have IBM TeamWorkplace and Microsoft Sharepoint. Externally, we’re driven by what our clients want …

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May 08 2006

Ajax and CAD

A few months ago, I posted about Ajax (Extranets to embrace Ajax?, 2 December 2005 – Ajax stands for ‘Asynchronous JavaScript and XML’, by the way), wondering if it might form part of the interfaces of construction collaboration solutions. Last week, courtesy of AECnews.com, I read an article, Ajax comes to CAD, which describes an …

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May 04 2006

CRM: Hosted vs packaged

A Silicon.com article weighs up the pros and cons of hosted applications by reference to the CRM market. I am encouraged by its talk of "greater acceptance of applications hosting as companies warm to outsourcing" – if this is happening in the CRM arena, particularly among small or medium-sized businesses, then companies may also warm …

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May 02 2006

BE Avanti

Last Friday I attended the spring meeting of members of Constructing Excellence‘s Building and Estates Forum (BE), chaired by the excellent Vaughan Burnand. During the day BE chief executive Don Ward announced that BE was looking to take over the running of the Avanti programme. Avanti’s funding by the DTI has just about run out, …

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Apr 27 2006

Meridian Prolog and Adenium DFS

I was initially a bit puzzled by Meridian Systems’ latest news release. It has announced that its technology partner, Adenium Systems, has developed a document management and fulfillment product that integrates with Meridian’s Prolog software: "Adenium’s Document Fulfillment System (DFS) enables scanning and indexing of a high volume of drawings, plans and other project documents, …

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Apr 26 2006

Autodesk applies to trademark DWG

I’d never considered a file format suffix as something worthy of a trademark, but it seems Autodesk is claiming DWG as a trademark, according to Evan Yares. What next: PDF™, DOC™, XLS™?

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Apr 25 2006

Google calendar

I sometimes find it difficult to reconcile my work, social and domestic commitments, particularly when my wife (Helen) and I have to juggle responsibility for taking and collecting our two children from school and after-school club (plus, in my daughter’s case, Brownies and Woodcraft Folk too). Microsoft Outlook has been OK as a personal calendar …

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