Category: Legal

May 23 2008

Hawthorn Glen v Aconex – settled out of court

By Paul Wilkinson in Business/Financial, Collaboration, Legal, Vendors
23 May 2008

After months of acrimony and several days of expensive court hearings, the case brought by Hawthorn Glen, a major shareholder in Australia-based construction collaboration vendor Aconex, against the company and its joint managing directors Leigh Jasper and Rob Phillpot has been settled out of court. The Federal Court of Australia earlier today made a brief order: …

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May 16 2008

Tender points

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Collaboration, Internet, Legal
16 May 2008

Reading the latest construction weeklies, Construction News has a column (not yet online) from Neil Jarrett of the Collaborative Working Centre explaining how collaborative working will address the problem of bid-rigging, advocating open book cost management (to give greater visibility of real costs and make it difficult for contractors to benefit from collusion) and frameworks (to …

bid-rigging, Collaborative Working Centre, Construction News, Contract Journal, frameworks, Humphrey Lyttelton, logo, Neil Jarrett, OFT, OGC, open book cost management, tender, The Foreman

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May 16 2008

The Hard Way

By Paul Wilkinson in Business/Financial, Collaboration, Legal, People issues, Vendors
16 May 2008

Joint Aconex MD Leigh Jasper has been interviewed by Jodie O’Keefe for the April/May issue of Australian Anthill magazine (a magazine focused on fast-growth companies). The feature, The Hard Way, says Aconex “now employs over 300 people servicing 4,950 projects in 65 countries” (including Romania). Considering Aconex has still yet to conclude a lengthy legal dispute …

Aconex, Australian Anthill, Hawthorn Glen, legal dispute, Leigh Jasper, VCs

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May 15 2008

BuildingSMART 2008 conference programme revealed

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Legal, People issues, Sustainability
15 May 2008

The programme for the 2008 London international BuildingSMART conference has been published. The one-day event – enticingly (ha, ha!) entitled “The STAND-INN Route to Sustainability and Value for Money in Construction and FM using BIM/IFCs” – is to be held again at the RIBA in London, on Wednesday 25 June. The day includes: sessions on …

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Apr 20 2008

UK bid-rigging scandal

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Blogs, Business/Financial, Legal
20 April 2008

Before I went on holiday, there was speculation about how many companies would be identified by the UK’s Office of Fair Trading as being involved in construction bid-rigging (see Contract Journal for some background). On Thursday, it was revealed that 112 companies had been accused of rigging thousands of public sector contracts worth billions of pounds, including …

Balfour Beatty, best value, bid-rigging, blogs, Carillion, collaborative working, Constructing Excellence, frameworks, lowest price tendering, Office of Fair Trading, partnering, smartphone, whole life costing

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Apr 04 2008

Site Waste Management Plans and collaboration platforms

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Legal, SaaS, Sustainability
4 April 2008

In England, Site Waste Management Plans (SWMPs) will become a legal requirement this weekend – from 6 April 2008 – and will affect anyone procuring, designing, planning or managing a construction project costing more than £300,000, plus suppliers to the construction industry, and environmental regulators ie: local authorities and the Environment Agency. Awareness of the …

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Mar 27 2008

Aconex twist = non-event

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Legal, People issues, Vendors
27 March 2008

Further to my recent post about reopened legal proceedings involving Australian-based collaboration technology vendor Aconex and its two joint MDs, it seems that last week’s hearing was a bit of a non-event. After the hearing on 19 March, the Notice of Motion filed by Aconex shareholder Hawthorn Glen on 27 February 2008 was dismissed, but any decision on costs relating to …

Aconex, Australia, collaboration technology, Hawthorn Glen, shareholder

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Mar 14 2008

Aconex shares row – another twist

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Legal, Vendors
14 March 2008

From time to time, I have a quick look at the Federal Court of Australia website to see if the case of Hawthorn Glen Pty Ltd -v- Aconex Pty Ltd, Rob Phillpot and Leigh Jasper has been resolved. Regular readers will know that construction collaboration business Aconex and its MDs have been engaged in a protracted …

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Feb 29 2008

FTP security hole

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Internet, Legal, SaaS
29 February 2008

Particularly in the early days of marketing construction collaboration technology solutions, we used to get occasional suggestions that online solutions were unnecessary as “our IT department has set up an FTP site for us to manage all that file-sharing”. Hopefully, those days are long gone, but for any construction businesses that may still be contemplating reliance …

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Dec 14 2007

Hawthorn Glen v Aconex – latest

By Paul Wilkinson in Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Legal, Vendors
14 December 2007

Just two days ago, in the context of collaboration vendor Aconex‘s 2007 financial results (post updated today to include some additional information from Aconex), I said there had been some court activity in mid-November relating to the Hawthorn Glen Pty Ltd v. Aconex Pty Ltd shares dispute. I now know that these hearings, on 15 and 16 November, related to an …