Mar 02 2015
UK-based Rapiere’s cloud-hosted software “calculates embodied carbon, whole-life energy use, and creates live cost models and comparisons” Rapiere, “a unique system designed by the industry for the industry and [representing] the next generation carbon, energy and cost modelling platform for the built environment which runs in the cloud” is being launched at this week’s Ecobuild …
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Aug 04 2014
A clutch of broken link alerts, a website now longer accessible, emails bouncing…. It seems that west London, UK-based construction collaboration technology provider, Cadweb, has ceased trading, weeks after UK rival Woobius did the same. Cadweb crash Formed in 1995, Cadweb launched its first commercial product in 1998 (I wrote an IT Best Practice Programme …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2014/08/cadweb-goes-bust/
Apr 22 2014
As I have, over the years, noted ISO27001 certification achievements for Conject (February 2006), Cadweb (April 2007), Aconex (December 2011), and Kykloud (August 2013), among others, it seems only fair to mark a similar milestone for Munich, Germany-based SaaS construction collaboration technology provider think project!. It has just announced achievement of the information security certification, …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2014/04/think-project-achieves-iso27001-certification/
Aug 02 2013
Love Construction is a campaign that has been slowly developing since the 2 July launch of the UK Government’s latest construction strategy. Its origins lie in an editorial written by Construction News editor Rebecca Evans who argued that it was time for industry people to have their say in how the industry is perceived. The …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2013/08/why-i-loveconstruction/
Jul 11 2013
Sunderland, UK-based SaaS construction collaboration technology vendor 4Projects, has announced the release of its first app, 4Mobile. The app is free to download for current 4Projects customers on an Apple iPad or iPhone (an Android app will be released later this year). Mobile project team members will then be able to access and share 4Projects …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2013/07/from-4projects-4mobile/
Feb 07 2013
Having had a couple of days to research and reflect on yesterdays’s announcement of Viewpoint’s acquisition of 4Projects (post) and to discuss it with industry friends, I thought I’d try to sum up a few strands. Deal background While Viewpoint CEO Jay Haladay was somewhat coy about the the funding and terms of the deal …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2013/02/reflections-on-the-4projects-acquisition/
Jun 20 2012
Cadweb launches new website Founded in 1995, London-based Cadweb still positions itself as the longest-established provider of project extranet services in the UK. It has just launched a new website – mainly a new ‘look and feel’, as most of the written content has hardly changed – while its latest June news release concerns a …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2012/06/construction-collaboration-vendor-news-round-up-june-2012/
Dec 06 2011
An Aconex news release popped up in my Google Alerts, announcing that the Australia-based construction collaboration technology provider has achieved ISO27001 certification – the highest international standard for information security management – for its operations in Australia. This achievement puts Aconex on a par with other vendors who have achieved ISO27001 accreditation, including early movers UK-based …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2011/12/aconex-certified-to-iso27001/
Aug 25 2011
August is an unforgiving month for PR efforts, particularly in the UK. Journalists, readers and bloggers (including me – northern Spain, very nice!) go on holiday, publications miss an edition or two, or have fewer pages, and fewer people visit websites. In case you missed them, kudos, then, to these SaaS construction collaboration technology vendors …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2011/08/august-collaboration-a-quick-pr-round-up/
Jun 12 2011
There seems to be dearth of positive news among the the leading UK-based construction collaboration vendors. A glance at their website news sections would have you wondering if they are still active, still winning work or still developing new applications. Excepting Aconex‘s international news and one or two client stories from 4Projects, there is a distinct …
Permanent link to this article: https://extranetevolution.com/2011/06/is-no-news-bad-news/
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