Tag: Construction Manager

Oct 17 2014

Why the UK BIM toolkit is a key building block

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, BIM, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Sustainability, Vendors
17 October 2014

The BIM ‘Digital toolkit’ should help UK firms, including SaaS vendors, adopt and then export BIM skills, practices, procedures and standards and apply them in other markets. Just as sustainability saw an explosion in ‘greenwash’ – sometimes spurious claims about the ‘greenness’ of various products or services – so building information modelling has seen frequent …

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Nov 05 2010

A first look at EADOC

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
5 November 2010

I recently did a GoToMeeting session with Eric Law of EADOC to get a clearer understanding of this US-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration platform. The system is mainly aimed at construction project teams operating in north America, and has been around since early 2006 (I first wrote about the business in late 2007). It was developed, …

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Aug 20 2010

Asite’s Appbuilder and Platform-as-a-Service

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Future, Mobile, SaaS, Vendors
20 August 2010

UK-based construction collaboration software developer Asite is looking to emulate Salesforce‘s Force.com Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering by creating a platform to host construction-related applications built using its Appbuilder development framework. This is the latest development in the competitive world of construction collaboration technology, but is likely to be quickly emulated by Asite’s key rivals. Background Ten …

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Mar 11 2010

Top 10 Construction IT trends

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Functionality, Future, Internet, Marketing, People issues, SaaS, Telecoms, Vendors, Web 2.0
11 March 2010

This is the original draft of an article I wrote that has just been published in the March 2010 issue of Construction Manager magazine (link to digital edition), alongside a bigger feature looking at the new generation of construction collaboration platforms (including Woobius, Collabor8online and SliderStudio‘s StickyWorld – all of which I’ve recently talked about …

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Jul 09 2009

Clouds UK: a new name and a competitive offering

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Business/Financial, Collaboration, Extranet/CDE, Functionality, Marketing, SaaS, Vendors
9 July 2009

Earlier this week, I had afternoon coffee in London with Andy Newsham and Alison Day, joint chief executives of York-based Clouds UK. This is the new name of what used to be a construction-oriented software-as-a-service business that I previously knew as e-constructionmanager.co.uk. The rebranding reflects the wider range of services now offered by the company, …

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Jan 29 2009

Few architects Tweet, even fewer QSs

By Paul Wilkinson in AEC, Collaboration, Future, Marketing, SaaS, Web 2.0
29 January 2009

Yesterday, in my short overview of the Web 2.0 practices of the main UK architecture, engineering and construction trade weeklies, I said that Architects’ Journal only appeared to have one Twitter user. Today, it seems almost the whole architecture profession has been somewhat slow to try out Twitter too. Over the past couple of weeks, …