Construction Tech: (R)evolution in progress
If you have visited this blog recently, you my have noticed a lack of updates. Due to pressure of other work, I was struggling to write regular posts. And a growing voluntary commitment to the UK BIM Alliance (now known as nima) also meant I had to be careful about commentary on technology vendors who Continue reading The post Blog on hold (possibly permanently) appeared first on Extranet…
Former UK BIM Task Group head Mark Bew, also co-founder of the PCSG consultancy business acquired by Bentley Systems in 2020, has stepped down as CEO of Bentley s Cohesive group. The opening day of Bentley Systems Year In Infrastructure 2023 event in Singapore has seen several new senior executive appointments. Inevitably that also means some Continue reading The post Mark Bew steps down as…
At an in-person London event, UK-based collaboration technology Revizto gave insights on efficiently implementing technologies. Today, Extranet Evolution is at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London, attending a briefing to learn more about Revizto, an integrated collaboration platform for architecture, engineering and construction. According to a nearby banner stand, Revizto provides a…
Thanks to mobile apps such as Buildiro, Skrap and now TeekIt, London streets are increasingly busy with deliveries of equipment and materials to construction sites, large and small. In late 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, ExtranetEvolution wrote about Skrap, a northwest London-based startup that was aiming to transform waste skip and construction equipment hire services Continue reading The post…
UK Government is aiming to make open, standardised data drive an improved local plans system. Legislation will ensure data is delivered in consistent formats, and make some data publicly available and reusable. In June, I attended a Manchester conference, Digital First (previously Digitech) the Crown Commercial Service s annual technology showcase. My presence at the Continue reading The post…
UK tech startup Yeme Tech partners with Esri to improve urban planning to create happier, healthier cities. It is the latest in a long line of community engagement or consultation platforms. Pioneering Yorkshire-based tech startup Yeme Tech has a strapline about humanizing data . It aims to improve urban planning for towns and cities by helping Continue reading The post Yeme Tech s CDP aims to…
Autodesk Forma is positioned as a cloud-based platform that will unify workflows for those that design, build and operate the built environment, but could those users also end up caged ? Earlier this month (see its 8 May 2023 news release) and ahead of Digital Construction Week in London, Autodesk unveiled the first set of capabilities Continue reading The post Autodesk launches Forma appeared…
A new interoperability code of practice for technologies, developed in the UK by the GIIG, has been launched. As previewed in EE (13 April 2023), Delivering Valuable Data: An Interoperability Code of Practice for Technologies in the Built and Managed Environment was launched at the Institution of Civil Engineers in Westminster on 17 April 2023. Continue reading The post Interoperability code of…
An interoperability code of practice for technologies in the built and managed environment is set to be launched on Monday 17 April in London. Poor interoperability of information has been a perennial problem for professionals in architecture, engineering, construction and asset operation and maintenance for decades. When I wrote my book, Construction Collaboration Technologies: An Continue…
Asite has made its first major acquisition under CEO Nathan Doughty, buying one of the UK s most innovative independent construction software developers, 3D Repo. Independent London, UK-based Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration technology developer Asite has announced (5 April 2023) the acquisition of 3D Repo, also London-based, and a pioneer in cloud-based BIM collaboration software.…
Part of Hull, UK-based 55 Group, contract change management tech provider Sypro has expanded its offering and teamed up with Trimble Viewpoint. Sypro expand contract range At the recent UK Construction Week 2022 in Birmingham, I had a brief catch-up with Simon Hunt, CEO of Hull, UK-based Sypro. His company was established some 15 years Continue reading The post Sypro expands in the SaaS contract…
The UK BIM Alliance s change of name to nima and its focus on whole life information management should also encourage wider thinking about long-term easy access to and use of information. It is now just over a month since the UK BIM Alliance publicly launched its new identity, becoming nima (see the official announcement). The Continue reading The post New-look nima underlines UK focus on…
Judging from its 2022 Glider Gathering , Glider Technology is fast becoming an influential player in the UK construction technology market. UK-based SaaS construction technology provider Glider Technology has come a long way in just a few years. On 2 November 2022, I attended the company s first (pandemic-delayed) user conference.* Its Glider Gathering was held at Continue reading The post Glider…
Updating Extranet Evolution over the past 12-15 months has become a very irregular activity, mainly due to pressure of other work (some fee-earning, some pro bono such as voluntary work for what was until recently the UK BIM Alliance, now since 4 October 2022 nima ). However, I am planning to resume more Continue reading The post Resuming Extranet Evolution blogging appeared first on Extranet…
Dublin, Ireland-based Evercam has raised a total of €8m investment to help it further grow its presence in Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific. As previously covered in EE (read April 2020 post: Evercam : site imagery, AI and BIM), Dublin, Ireland-based company Evercam provides cameras for construction sites to provide regular feeds of images that can also Continue reading The post Evercam…
Causeway acquires leading provider of connected asset management software and services, Yotta. In June 2021, Causeway, the Buckinghamshire, UK-based construction technology group, secured a £120 million (c US$166m or €139m) investment to fund strategic acquisitions and accelerate its organic growth strategy to digitally connect the construction supply chain through further development of its cloud…
UK main contractor Kier Construction has selected Procore as its field and quality management solution (but not it seems as its corporate common data environment ). According to recent articles on the CIOB-backed BIM+ website and on The Construction Index, UK contractor Kier Construction has chosen the Procore Software-as-a-Service platform as its field and Continue reading The post Kier picks…
Email management services company MailManager has been acquired by compliance software business Ideagen in a deal worth nearly £30 million. The architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) sector has long been heavily dependent on email correspondence, despite the opportunity to move some communications to alternative workflow and document collaboration platforms. One business solution that…
Raildiary has capitalised upon its domain experience and expertise to deliver tools specific to the needs of personnel working in a highly regulated and also intensely commercial market. Manchester, UK-based Raildiary is a railway industry-specific cloud-based data collection and reporting platform utilising mobile and web technologies. On-site data is captured in line with the UK s Continue…
Planyard offers one place for all project financials management, keeping everything standardised and in sync, with a real-time view of project costs. Estonia-based Planyard is targeting contractors with a cloud-based budget management tool for contractors. Traditionally, this was a field largely managed by locally-held Excel spreadsheets. And where companies manage multiple parallel projects,…