Category: Vendors

New CFO at Aconex

The Australian reports that construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex has selected Andrew Eddy to be chief financial officer. He was previously finance group general manager at packaging company Amcor, and corporate treasurer at Orica, a global supplier of explosives and blasting technology.

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Website woes

Last week was a bit of a nightmare. The main BIW corporate website, www.biwtech.com, suddenly became unavailable due to a server problem at the hosting company used by our website designer (important note: the production servers delivering BIW’s collaboration applications are, of course, totally separate – with a different company, Attenda – and have remained online throughout). The hosting company …

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Aconex court case – latest

Somebody asked me today if the Aconex dispute with one of its shareholders had been resolved (see previous post). The answer is no, at least not yet. Court hearings were held on 9, 10, 12, 15 and 16 October, and the next hearing is scheduled for 2 November. A final ruling may, therefore, still be some …

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Bricsnet raises $13m

US AEC and property solutions vendor Bricsnet has announced that “existing investors have approved implementation of a $13 million capital investment plan” (reports AECcafe.com). According to its news release, Bricsnet intends “to use the funds to enhance product development and services, and to extend its leadership in the growing market for retail, corporate and public sector …

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Email or extranet?

Despite the protestations of some Crackberry addicts who can’t leave their email alone, extranets are a far better way for people to collaborate on documents online. Rick Mosenkis of Trichys Workzone clearly shares the same view: read his The Email Alternative: Using An Extranet For Online Document Sharing. (I especially liked his point: “With an …

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Collaboration vendors on awards trail – 2

Just over a week since my post mentioning the second running of the Construction Computing Awards 2007, I have just received an email from the organisers saying that online voting for the shortlisted candidates is now under way. Looking at the shortlists from a construction collaboration technology viewpoint, almost every NCCTP member is represented somewhere …

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4Projects 2006 results

Keeping my records up-to-date, I checked on the financial results of UK construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects for the year ending 31 March 2006 at Companies House. It seems I was a little over-optimistic about my April 2007 guess-timate for its performance…. Instead of reaching £2.7m turnover, it managed £2.291m, up 10% from its 2005 …

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IT and sustainable construction

On 16 October, I am speaking at the EMCBE Expo 2007 Construction Conference at Rockingham in Northamptonshire, on the theme of Sustainability: the IT contribution. This regional event includes a presentation regarding the UK government’s “Draft Strategy for Sustainable Construction”, and in prepararing my contribution, I had a look through the document to see what it …

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Collaboration vendors on awards trail

Last Friday, I was honoured to present the ‘Integration and Collaborative Working’ award – sponsored by BIW [my employer] – at the Constructing Excellence London and South-east England awards dinner, held in central London. The winner, by the way, was the Dartford Team (including the Highways Agency, Costain, Jacobs and Mouchel Parkman) for the A2/A282 junction improvement …

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Asite stops the rot

After three years of gradually dwindling turnover, UK-based construction collaboration technology vendor Asite looks like it has started to reverse the decline, mainly due to healthy revenues earned in the Middle East. Today’s Stock Exchange announcement of its interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2007 show gross revenues up 19% to £0.854m (from …

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