Jan 27 2014

HANDS HQ targets construction safety compliance

My latest startup interview looks at a cross-platform health and safety compliance service, Hands HQ.

hands hq logoAnother day, another AEC startup, another Alex. The day after meeting Alex Siljanovski, CEO of BlueRonin (post), I met up with Alexander Green, CEO of HANDS HQ, a London-based startup providing online construction health and safety documentation services.

A construction project manager by background, Alex founded HANDS HQ in early 2013. The company, backed by angel investors, currently works out of the Rainmaking Loft startup hub offices close to Tower Bridge. Pitching (successfully) to potential investors, Alex apparently described HANDS HQ as one of the “least sexiest businesses” they would see, but he argues it is a “value-needed product”.

The company’s core application helps trade subcontractors such as carpenters, bricklayers, plumbers, electricians, HVAC and other equipment and services installers complete accurate risk assessment/method statement (RAMS) documentation. RAMS paperwork is required before operatives from such businesses can enter a live construction site, and conventional Word and Excel templates can be time-consuming to compile, and often incorrect. HANDS HQ streamlines a process that can take an employee two hours and delivers a complete, branded, project- and site-specific document in around three minutes, Alex says.

Cross-platform

The Software-as-a-Service application therefore cuts the the cost of producing risk assessments and method statements by as much as 90%. Being cross-platform, users can access it from desktops, laptops or mobile devices, working from home or site, while commuting or between jobs, and will help subcontractors efficiently manage their documentation across multiple projects and sites.

“I have witnessed first hand the difficulties many construction and trade companies had with compiling site-specific risk assessments and method statements. Often this is due to time, cost and the lack of necessary skills needed to produce what can be fairly complex documents. While many contractors undertake training to gain access to major construction sites, they can often be turned away from site because of incorrect documentation and administration.

“We wanted to create a simple, affordable way for all stakeholders on a job to compile, edit and share their documentation. More paper work wasn’t the answer – a smarter, and more flexible system is needed.”

SME focus

Alex argues that while most contractors appreciate the need for legislation and safe work, in a cost-conscious, low-margin industry like construction, many businesses cannot justify the added expense of recruiting a health and safety consultant. Moreover, in almost all circumstances, he says the contractor on the ground has a much better understanding of the inherent risks involved in their job than anyone else.

The SaaS tool, developed in Ruby on Rails (led by user experience expert and co-founder Jamie Carruthers), caters to its target market by being quick and simple to use. HANDS HQ allows users to repeat standard company information then select the type of work and job-related hazards at the click of a button. A firm can sign up to the service for as little as £25 per month, which will allow them to compile up to three RAMS documents.
Unlimited submissions, and multiple trade documents for builders, will soon be available from £65 per month, and more users can be included for an additional fee, Alex says.

HANDS HQ is developing partnerships with trade associations to help grow its user base, with the Institute of Carpenters about to launch the service to its members. As well as supporting specific trades, the company will extend its services to help small builders, who often manage multiple trades, so that they too can streamline their RAMS document production processes.

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2014/01/hands-hq-targets-construction-safety-compliance/

Jan 24 2014

Basestone targets engineers and SMEs with mobile review tool

Basestone, a tablet application developed by London start-up BlueRonin, enables cost-effective mobile engineering drawing review.

BasestoneThe architecture, engineering and construction market for mobile solutions is expanding rapidly. As I wrote earlier this week (2014: year of AEC mobile?), existing software developers are augmenting both conventional and SaaS applications with mobile tools for site-based activities, while new businesses have also identified this as a market opportunity while adoption of smartphones and tablets continues to grow.

BlueRonin

Yesterday, I met the team behind a startup which has spent a year developing an iPad-based PDF drawing review application called Basestone. The company, BlueRonin, was founded in December 2012 by civil engineer Alex Siljanovski: I also met CTO Simon McCabe and lead software engineer Manual Zapata. Clearly passionate about engineering, Alex had been repeatedly frustrated by the speed and quality of traditional drawing review processes. After undertaking a Masters in Technology Entrepreneurship at University College London, he began to refine his ideas for a simple Software-as-a-Service mobile solution which could be used by engineers in small and medium-sized firms (SMEs).

The company has enjoyed support from international telecoms giant Telefonica through its Wayra startup accelerator programme, which has provided BlueRonin with investment and office space in a building off London’s Tottenham Court Road. The app has been tested by engineers engaged on the HS2 rail project, with pilots for Capita and Crossrail due to start soon (though, scale-wise, these are actually not representative of the product’s envisaged target market).

The company is due to move very soon to new premises in London’s Tech City quarter, and to close a funding round that will help it extend its development activities to include an Android variant of the platform, add construction workflows and build associated business intelligence tools.

Drawing review and feedback management

The app – soon to be available in a closed Beta version from Apple’s AppStore – is slick to use. Upon issue of drawings to the secure cloud-based system, a recipient receives a notification and can open the associated file in the app. This also allows them to add comments and mark-ups to the drawing and – a nice touch – the importance of the amendments can be graded on a severity scale, helping other users quickly understand which items are rated as high priorities.

As with other SaaS construction collaboration solutions, the objective is to ensure team members always have access to the latest versions of designs, to provide a secure audit trail showing who had seen and said what and when, and to aggregate all amendments in a drawing commentary (we discussed ‘social’, threaded approaches to such commentaries as an alternative to traditional notifications – echoing conversations I’ve had in recent months with other startups such as FieldLens – post – and the mobile-oriented GenieBelt and FluidCM – post).

Where it will differ from the sophisticated SaaS collaboration solutions is in its pricing, which Alex says will be pitched at a level attractive to small firms engaged on modest-sized projects which would not normally be managed using a system like 4Projects, Aconex or Asite. More details should be available in February.

BlueRonin’s initial focus on drawings will shift to thinking about building information modelling (BIM). Alex says they will be developing their interpretation of the PAS1192-2 standard and how to relate their gathered data to the corresponding 3D BIM model (given that 2D drawings will increasingly be derived from BIM).

Update (6 June 2014) – Use of the Basestone app by Costain and Skanska on the Crossrail project to red line drawings, snag installations and run safety inspections on site was reported in The Construction Index.

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2014/01/basestone-targets-engineers-and-smes-with-mobile-review-tool/

Jan 21 2014

2014: year of AEC mobile?

As we increasingly access data and application on the move, AEC SaaS vendors will need to embrace the mobile cloud more in 2014.

This morning I read a .Rising US news item predicting desktop traffic would be overtaken by mobile and tablet by July 2014, underlining, yet again, the growing importance of mobile and tablet traffic and the declining role of the desktop device. OK, the research was focused on just 10 websites (and the article stressed the trends for marketing people), but this is just the latest in a long line of articles predicting a shift in how we interface with data and applications.

Increased cloud

Of course, in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) market, we have been engaged in a bigger shift. Since the late 1990s, we have seen a gradual but inexorable rise in the number of projects deploying cloud-based construction collaboration technologies, reducing the reliance on in-house hosted software and data, and moving to Software-as-a-Service. Even Autodesk’s Carl Bass is actively talking about embracing the cloud as a subscription and delivery mechanism for its AEC design and visualisation tools (while others are biding their time).

The AEC shift to mobile devices has been less marked, though, partly due to questions about which platform(s) to support. First Apple’s iPhone and then its iPad grabbed a lot of C-suite attention, but the devices are not cheap (or at least not cheap enough for them to used routinely in the demanding conditions – and low margins – of a construction project), and there is a reluctance by some developers to share the costs of paid-for apps with Apple. Android is seen by many as a more viable alternative as a result. Windows mobile – once dominant in the mid-2000s days of PDAs – is only slowly regaining market recognition; many AEC businesses have invested heavily in Microsoft software and operating systems, so this is only to be expected (there was an interesting discussion on this at Priority1’s conference in December, and it is a recurring debate at COMIT community days).

4MobileMore mobile

Leading AEC design software vendors such as Autodesk and Bentley have expanded their product portfolios to include a growing number of mobile tools capable of integration with their traditional applications, and their move into mobile is paralleled by some – but not yet all – of the AEC SaaS vendors. For example, 4Projects launched its 4Mobile platform last year (Apple in July, Android in October), following the leads of rivals Aconex (iPhone in May 2011, iPad in September 2012, Android in April 2013 – see Aconex blog post), Docia (Android in January 2012, iPhone six months later), and Asite (who launched mobile functionality, branded ‘cMob’, across multiple platforms via its AppBuilder toolset in 2010). Unit4’s Business Collaborator team were talking about mobile support using the parent company’s FieldForce 12 months ago, and peer-to-peer platform provider Newforma had bought a mobile apps developer and launched field apps in 2012 (post). However, others such as Cadweb, for example, remained wedded to the idea of supporting collaboration through a browser interface – though this may not be optimised for field use on touch-screens and there can be internet connectivity issues on-site.

The explosion in use of smartphones and tablets in the last five years has also spawned a profusion of point solutions from smaller developers, particularly in areas such as site inspections and defects management (aka snagging or punchlists). Last year, for example, as well as Priority1, I wrote about GenieBelt’s GenieInspect (post), Accede (post), SmartBuilder1 and GoReport (post); and there are also SnagR (post), Snag List (post) and iSnag (post), among others. This morning, I also saw an article in Quality in Construction listing nine applications for site inspection, including Autodesk’s BIM360 Field (formerly Vela), GenieBelt, SnagR, Latista, Inspect2Go, PlanGrid, Canvas, Bluebeam and FluidID.

Integration?

I expect we will see the mobile area grow in importance in 2014, and I hope we will also see a shift away from stand-alone point solutions towards integration and reuse of information within wider collaboration applications (building information modelling, BIM, is encouraging greater consideration of re-use of asset data throughout the life of a built asset, and this will need to encompass mobile tools). As mentioned, some (4Projects, Aconex, Asite, Autodesk, etc) are already well advanced, while the apparent laggards still have time to catch up.

Only last week I noted the new Conject CEO Ralf Händl specifically mentioned mobile devices as something the company would be rolling out in 2014. This has been something largely absent from the company’s portfolio since it led the way – as BIW – in launching a PDA-based defects management application, integrated with its core SaaS application, in 2006. The German arm of business has developed an iPhone application, but this wasn’t internationalised and rolled-out to the former BIW customer base after the acquisition. Meanwhile, its main domestic competitor Think Project! launched iPhone and Android mobile applications last summer.

Update (22 January 2014) – It seems that when I write about mobile solutions, it prompts other firms to get in touch.

For example, I have just heard from Sydney, Australia-based vendor WebFM whose core product OMTrak enables customers to create operation and maintenance manuals online (similar to the Grazer business acquired by Aconex in June 2012). Alongside its manuals module, it offers a site works module which provides defects management, with an iPhone app available from the Apple AppStore (when I looked it was, unfortunately, “currently undergoing an emergency fix”).

I was also reminded by fellow industry IT watcher Randall Newton about California, USA-based mobile solutions provider IMSI/Design and its iPhone/iPad delivered TurboSite field reporting products. Upgrades to TurboSite Pro and TurboSite Plus have just been released, with new BIM and 3D section display capabilities added to to the Pro app, while both options allow users to add maps to drawings and, for the first time, to mark up 2D PDF files with playable video that is directly inserted into the portable document format.

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2014/01/2014-year-of-aec-mobile/

Jan 14 2014

4Projects joins BIM forces with Solibri UK

Solibri logo4projects - a viewpointcs company4Projects, the Sunderland, UK-based SaaS collaboration technology provider (and subsidiary of Viewpoint Construction Software), has announced it is partnering with Solibri UK, the British outpost of the Finland-based software company that provides BIM model validation, QA and interrogation software. The news release says the partnership will:

“provide the UK building and construction markets an end-to-end BIM solution that enables validation and co-ordination of models with a scalable model collaboration infrastructure. Both 4Projects and Solibri solutions work with open BIM standards and their combination further demonstrates that reliable and comprehensive BIM workflows are being achieved using models from a variety of BIM authoring software.”

Matthew Harris, senior VP of strategy and corporate business development, says:

“The 4Projects collaboration solution provides project teams with a configurable Common Data Environment (CDE) that acts as the BIM workflow engine, enabling the entire project supply chain to ensure that the right BIM data is made available to the right people at the right time. By partnering with Solibri UK, we are able to provide project teams with a solution for both model validation/co-ordination and model collaboration.”

David Jellings, MD of Solibri UK, says:

“Effective adoption of BIM requires more than just a single solution…. AEC users can benefit from the flexibility of open standards based platforms which save time, money and resources. In working with 4Projects we have found a partner that supports our beliefs and works to ensure the delivery of real value to the industry.”

My view
David Jellings has been an active proponent of open BIM for some years, and I saw him talk at a BIM event in March 2012 where there was also a presentation about 4Projects’ 4BIM research initiative. Since then, 4Projects has continued to invest in its BIM capabilities, remaining focused on open technologies and a vision of a toolset that can be accessed through a standard web browser. The company has also been clear that it will not develop all the required capabilities itself, but will work with ‘best of breed’ partners whose expertise and experience is complementary to its own – 4Projects interim MD Steve Spark mentioned Solibri when he spoke at the MCS Priority1 user conference I attended last November.

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2014/01/4projects-joins-bim-forces-with-solibri/

Jan 10 2014

4Projects is recruiting

4projects - a viewpointcs companySaaS construction collaboration vendor 4Projects has been busy recruiting new people to its UK-based operation over the past 11 months or so, following its acquisition by US ERP provider Viewpoint in February 2013.

Much of the investment to date has been in strengthening the software development team, and the latest changes see Richard Pavey, formerly of Autodesk and, most recently, structural steel fabrication software specialist AceCad, taking on a new role as director of development (EMEA). Former CTO then VP product development Andy Ward now rejoices in the title of global enterprise architect.

Steve SparkBetween them, they have strong backgrounds respectively in construction industry-specific software and in enterprise-strength SaaS applications. I talked to interim 4Projects MD Steve Spark (post – right) about the appointments today and he said Andy would be helping Viewpoint make a transition to wider support for SaaS as the product portfolio begins to converge.

Investing in people

However, these appointments are only the tip of the iceberg. 4Projects has just appointed a new HR manager who is tasked with recruiting at least 20 more people over the next year (the business is moving from Sunderland into new premises in central Newcastle later this month).

Steve told me the development team would grow further, and there would also be opportunities for BIM sales people, for ‘sales engineers’ (a brief that includes pre-sales as well as post-sale consulting), for technical support staff and various other roles including specialists in networks and quality assurance. Recent expansion of its partnerships programme (December saw an Indian outpost, for example) will also see appointment of a new territory manager to spearhead growth in a new geography, Steve said.

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2014/01/4projects-is-recruiting/

Jan 09 2014

Ralf Händl takes over at Conject

Ralf HändlLast week, on 1 January 2014, Dr Ralf Händl, 53, took over as CEO of the Anglo-German SaaS construction collaboration technology provider Conject. This followed the decision by Colin Smith to stand down from the role (see my 4 November 2013 post).

Ralf Händl has a PhD in economics and extensive knowledge in the global construction and real estate industries, having served as a board member of Suttgart-based consultancy Drees & Sommer, and holding executive and management positions in German construction companies such as Bauer, Walter Bau and Bilfinger. He has also worked as a Conject consultant for some years assisting with its international expansion.

He takes over at an interesting time, and will have to juggle the competing demands from customers in different markets moving at different speeds. For example, UK watchers of the company will be looking forward to release of its BIM Design Review functionality, but BIM is only part of the company’s challenge. It is also planning a UK launch of its Software-as-a-Service FM platform this year, and in November 2013 it launched cloud-based earned value management functionality to add further weight to its commercial project control capabilities.

Update (17 January 2014) – Ralf Händl outlines his view of the Conject business in an interview blog post on the Conject blog. He says his priority will be to focus the company and its people “even more strongly toward the market and customers”. He believes the group’s biggest strength is its all-round expertise with respect to products covering just about every aspect of the plan, build and operate life cycle, but recognises it needs to work on marketing products better:

In discussions with our customers we often notice that there is insufficient awareness in the market of our new developments and extensions to the existing product portfolio.

In 2014 Händl says we can expect the international roll-out of a new cloud-based Conject FM applications, more functional enhancements in Project Control, increased functional support for Building Information Modelling (BIM) – where the company has lagged behind competitors in providing BIM capabilities – and he finishes with a mention of mobile devices – again something we’ve seen delivered by other SaaS vendors, but mobile apps are largely absent from Conject’s portfolio of products outside mainland Europe.

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2014/01/ralf-handl-takes-over-at-conject/

Dec 30 2013

Aconex: revenues up but expansion increases losses

Aconex reports growing revenues, but expansion increases losses for year to June 2013.

Melbourne, Australia-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor Aconex reported revenues up 18% in the year ending 30 June 2013. The business, now increasingly establishing itself in the USA, grew from Au$44.3m in 2012 to global revenues of Au$52.6m (£28.4m or US$46.8m). The company’s EBITDA showed a loss of Au$8.89m (c. £4.8m or US$7.9m) compared to 2012′s $3.27m loss (post).

This was the second successive increase in revenues following the Global Financial Crisis ‘plateau’, though the rate of growth is clearly less steep than before the recession. The loss is the biggest in Aconex’s reported history, though subsequently restated losses have been higher.

Aconex Revenues Profit/Loss December 2013

Expansion

According to Aconex’s annual report, the revenue increase was a result of continued business expansion across key customer markets and new product offerings (including Aconex Field for mobile field inspections and issues management [post], and Aconex Smart Manuals for the handover of operation and maintenance documentation at project completion [post]; there was no significant mention of its e-tendering operation Bidcontender – post). The company reports that it is now developing a BIM (Building Information Modelling) solution to help customers manage big data in processing multi-dimensional models and data files in a collaborative project environment. This BIM solution is being beta-tested by several key customers before its official launch in Q4 FY14 (April-June 2014).

Operating expenses increased by 36%, from $34.0m in 2012 to $46.1m in 2013 – reflecting, Aconex said, continued investments in product development, as well as sales and marketing for key customer markets, particularly the Americas region. This contributed to the EBITDA loss, while cash flows from operations and investment activities were (Au$6.9m) compared with Au$1.1m for 2012.

“The year-over-year change in EBITDA loss and cash flows primarily reflected the Company’s initiatives to increase sales and marketing activities in key growth markets. In addition to the Americas, these include Asia, the Middle East and Australia and New Zealand (ANZ).”

No breakdown of revenues by region is reported this year (in 2012 revenues were heavily dependent on Aconex’s domestic market in Australasia, which accounted for roughly half of its income).

To put Aconex’s revenues in context, its 2013 total is almost double that of German and UK-based SaaS vendor Conject, which in May this year asserted it was the second largest SaaS vendor in the architecture, engineering, construction and operator space.

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2013/12/aconex-revenues-up-but-expansion-increases-losses/

Dec 23 2013

BIM: Why should clients be bothered?

This blog post was an opinion piece for Constructing Excellence‘s December 2013 e-newsletter. Its author is Benedict Wallbank of SmartBIM Solutions (part of Graphisoft), who has contributed to recent CE and ThinkBIM events (the piece doesn’t seem to be more widely available, but I felt it should be).

Ben Wallbank chairs ThinkBIM session in Leeds, December 2013

It is still a commonly held opinion that Building Information Modelling (BIM) affects only design and construction teams and is not something about which the construction industry client need be concerned. If BIM were just about increasing efficiency, reducing waste, reducing carbon consumption, better quality of information, collaboration and promoting truly integrated design and delivery solutions solely during a building’s design and construction (and it is indeed all of these!) that might be the case.

The UK Government has taken measures to ensure that the adoption of BIM process by the construction industry as a whole takes place . It could be argued, therefore, that the private sector client should just sit back and reap the benefits of more competitive tender returns from the supply chain. However, only 20% of the cost of a facility relates to its design and construction. The remaining 80% of a building’s cost resides in its operation .

Achieving savings after a facility has been completed, therefore, has a disproportionate effect on its lifetime cost (a 5% saving in operation equating to a 20% saving on the cost of construction).

The key to being able to drill into these operational costs lies in the delivery of consistent and structured digital asset information, this is then usable by the owner-operator for post-occupancy decision-making. This deliverable needs to be clearly defined by the client in requests for proposals (RFPs) and appointment contracts. Some clients, particularly those that retain a long-term interest in their facilities, have understood this. In the UK the government has taken a leading role in ensuring that they will be provided with consistent asset information on publicly procured projects. The government client specifies the information set to the supply chain using an established international model: COBie. COBie was created to provide a means by which the faculties industry can communicate information about facilities, enabling clients to take full and responsible ownership immediately on building handover.

Although those delivering government procured projects are more obviously and immediately affected by the new strategy, astute players within private client groups have realised that as the wider industry adopts these new technologies, they too will benefit from reduced cost and risk. Private sector clients who retain responsibility for their assets (those investing in PFI/PPP type projects for example) are actively redefining their deliverables to include asset information. This information can only be produced efficiently by generating most of the data from a Building Information Model.

Of course, not all construction clients have long-term interests in their assets; developer clients commission many projects. Ultimately, all the developer clients need worry about is selling or letting a new development. Why should a developer client bother asking for BIM deliverables? Just as potential tenants have, in the last few years, understood that better sustainability ratings have a beneficial effect upon running costs and have factored this into their purchase decisions so it also seems likely that they will also quickly realise that good quality structured data for the management of assets will do likewise. Those clients employing teams capable of delivering this structured data will therefore have secured a sales advantage over those who are not.

There are also other advantages to be gained by the client through BIM process and consistent project data. Models can be analysed from feasibility stage and tested more accurately than under 2D processes to approve the outline business case. BIM can also provide increased programme (4D) and cost (5D) certainty at an earlier stage than under traditional process providing a degree of comfort to the developer not currently available. Importantly, consistent digital data across a portfolio will also allow the client to compare project outcome data from project to project in a far more detailed and accurate way than previously possible.

In the longer term BIM may also enable a wider variety of project procurement models to be considered for example facilitating true “open book” information providing greater trust and certainty to Construction Management contracts.

Given these factors the question might be better rephrased: Can a client afford to ignore BIM?

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2013/12/bim-why-should-clients-be-bothered/

Dec 20 2013

4Projects partner network extends to India

4projects - a viewpointcs companySunderland, UK-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects has continued its international partner programme since the company’s acquisition by US ERP provider Viewpoint in February. The latest deal (news release) will see 4Projects expand use of its project and BIM collaboration tools in the Indian construction market, supported by local partner TULS Management. TULS CEO and founder Vaibhav Satpute says:

“TULS Management looks forward to offering the project and BIM collaboration tools that 4Projects has to offer, providing key stakeholders of the Indian construction and power sectors the solutions they need to bring efficiencies, improved productivity and cost savings to their projects. 4Projects is a proven leader in the construction collaboration space and TULS Management prides itself on partnering with those companies whose commitment to customer service and value mirrors our own.”

I looked at 4Projects international partnering initiative in August 2012 after the company had helped launch Project Collaboration in Australia. It then also had resellers in Denmark, the Netherlands, South Africa, Hong Kong and the Czech Republic. I had lunch with 4Projects international partnerships manager David Cordier in October 2013, soon after he had been recruited from Excitech. He says:

“As we continue to grow our International Partnership Program; finding the right partner whom can provide local knowledge within a specialised sector is fundamental to the continued success of 4Projects.”

There is a large potential market for online construction collaboration tools in India, though many projects remain heavily reliant upon traditional paper-based communication processes (I discussed the market potential in India earlier this year with a local software developer TransBit Technologies; post). India has also been a popular base for software development operations (still used by Asite and formerly used by BIW, now Conject). Other SaaS vendors have established local operations or partnerships too; for example:

  • Aconex has marketed its platform in India since the mid-2000s
  • Docia identified a local partner in Chennai in 2011
  • In August 2013, Asite signed a five-year deal with Bangalore-based contractor Synergy

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2013/12/4projects-partner-network-extends-to-india/

Dec 16 2013

Coming soon: Conject BIM Design Review

ConjectChristmas greetings from the Woking, UK office of SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor Conject this year have included an e- newsletter from UK MD Steve Cooper. In it, he writes about some customer highlights from 2013 and gives some news of product development initiatives to support BIM in 2014 (presumably these were the features discussed at Conject’s private user event in September):

One of the first areas we have focused on is the design review process around model files. Most design teams are stretched for resources, therefore, we have gone back to the drawing board to design a new suite of capabilities to enable teams to use technology to improve their design management process. CONJECT will be announcing availability of its new BIM Design Review solution in early 2014….

He says this application will offer the following:

  • Information Required Schedules
  • Out of the Box design review processes
  • Model uploading & downloading
  • Version control
  • Model viewing & navigation
  • Model comparisons
  • Ability to launch a process (eg: an RFI) from a model view

EVM

The newsletter also devotes a section to Earned Value Management (EVM) which has been a prominent subject on Conject’s blog in recent weeks. Following the launch of its cloud-based EVM functionality at a Project Controls event in November, Conject’s sales director Duncan Kneller has outlined the history of EVM, and promises more on the same subject.

Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2013/12/coming-soon-conject-bim-design-review/

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