Tag: collaboration

May 09 2013

Learning BIM at the Bentley Crossrail Academy

The Bentley Crossrail Academy is developing and promoting BIM best practice in the £15.9 billion London project’s supply chain that will be shared by other UK mega-projects. Recently, Iain MisKimmin (senior industry consultant at Bentley Systems UK, manager of its City of London-based Information Management Academy, and also one of the leading lights of COMIT), …

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Apr 16 2013

Collaborative design management – still evolving

The development of the World-wide web during the 1990s started a technology change across architecture, engineering and construction and facilities management that continues to this day. For an often geographically-dispersed, multi-company project delivery team, the ability to send messages and associated attachments electronically was attractive, but email was not the magic bullet that design teams …

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Apr 11 2013

Idox acquires Artesys to grow McLaren EDMS operation

Artesys logo

Idox Group, the parent company of engineering document control and construction collaboration and CAFM business McLaren Software, has today announced the £2m (€2.4m) acquisition of French engineering document management (EDMS) specialists Artesys International. Founded in 2000, based in Rennes, Artesys provides engineering document control solutions and applications supporting the efficient and safe operation of processing …

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Feb 26 2013

BricsCAD announces Chapoo integration

chapoo-Bricscad

Relaunched in November 2012, the Ghent, Belgium cloud-based project information and collaboration platform Chapoo (formerly Vondle) will now be available to users of BricsCAD CAD software through an upcoming product release. Users will be able to open a .dwg file from a project on the Chapoo service, and to download and upload .dwg files from and to Chapoo …

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Feb 20 2013

DesigningBuildings: a wiki in progress

DesigningBuildings article on architectural ironmongery

I have been interested in the potential use of wikis in the construction industry since the early 2000s, and have long regarded them as collaborative tools, with people collectively creating and improving content. Wikipedia is, of course, the most well-known wiki project (one of several from the Wikimedia Foundation). I am a long-time Wikipedian, and …

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Feb 19 2013

16 reasons why nobody yet dominates the construction SaaS collaboration sector

Despite widespread adoption of SaaS-based construction collaboration platforms and wider acceptance of SaaS, no company has achieved real dominance across any major regional, national or vertical AEC market. Why? [Warning: this is a longer-than-usual post!] By revenues and (notwithstanding recent restructuring) by manpower, Aconex is the biggest player in the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) based construction collaboration …

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Feb 18 2013

Aconex restructuring

Aconex, 2005-2012

Australian SaaS construction collaboration vendor Aconex is restructuring to reduce overheads at its Melbourne head office. Readers’ comments on previous blog posts, including one about Australian SaaS collaboration vendor Aconex and its 2012 annual results (Aconex growing revenues again), and – more recently – my reflections on the 4Projects acquisition got me looking at recent Aconex activities.* …

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Feb 14 2013

Kahootz – targeting generic collaboration in public sector

A Google Alerts pointed me to a recently posted SlideShare presentation about project extranets from Berkshire, UK-based Kahootz. The business highlights how the architecture, engineering and construction industry has been using online collaboration for a decade or more, and urges more organisations to follow suit. However, Kahootz is not aimed expressly at the AEC sector …

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Feb 07 2013

Reflections on the 4Projects acquisition

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 …

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Feb 06 2013

UK exclusive: 4Projects acquired by US ERP vendor ViewPoint

Richard Vertigan

Sunderland, UK-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology vendor  4Projects has been acquired (for an undisclosed amount) by Portland, Oregon-based financial systems vendor Viewpoint Construction Software. Almost exactly a year after I talked to Viewpoint executives about their aspirations for the US enterprise resource planning software company (see ERP vendor Viewpoint viewing collaboration space), the 4Projects acquisition was announced to …

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