There are a few Bentley ProjectWise users in the UK architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) market (about seven years ago, in my freelance days, I wrote a case study for the UK’s IT Best Practice Programme about how architect Damond Lock Grabowski was using the system). Will the latest news from Bentley see that number …
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May 19 2006
4Projects enjoys doubled profit (2)
An anonymous comment on yesterday's post about 4Projects says: "interesting 4Projects claimed to have made a £590,000 profit in Oct 2004" and points at a BIW press release. I think the confusion may have arisen because the 2004 headline figure included a proportion of 4Projects' profits that were returned to the parent Leighton Group. The …
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May 18 2006
4Projects enjoys doubled profit
Contract Journal reports that UK construction project collaboration provider 4Projects has recorded a £270,000 pre-tax profit in it latest financial results (for the year to 31 March 2005). This compared with a profit fo £130,000 the previous year. Turnover was higher at £2.1m (2004: £1.6m). Finance director Steven Nelson is quoted: "Turnover has risen because …
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May 17 2006
Changes at BuildOnline? (3)
It’s never a dull moment at BuildOnline – every few months, they move things around and change some job-titles. Having made a few changes in October 2005, then again in December, today we noticed from BO’s main website that Stuart Lander had lost his crown as the grand-sounding "President, Americas" (before that he was managing …
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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 14 2006
ITCF 2006 conference (2)
Since my previous post on this subject, I have learned that Paul Castle of Turner & Townsend has confirmed that he will be the principal speaker in the NCCTP afternoon discussion stream session at the ITCF conference on 24 May.
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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 09 2006
ITCF 2006 conference
As members of the event’s headline sponsor, the NCCTP, BIW Technologies (along with 4Projects, Asite, Business Collaborator and Sarcophagus) will be exhibiting at the IT Construction Forum’s 2006 annual conference at the Oval in London on 24 May. Representatives of the same NCCTP members will also be participating in an afternoon stream session focused on …
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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 02 2006
Constructware and Autodesk
At AECCadalyst.com, an article, "Digitizing the Paper Trail", helps explain some benefits of using an online collaboration solution – in this case, Constructware. The final section mentions the recent acquisition of Constructware by Autodesk (see previous post) and gives a Constructware customer’s perspective (Debra Kunce, program director at design agency Schmidt Associates): Reflecting on the …
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