The latest Autodesk UK press release claims an independent survey it commissioned reveals that IT - and construction collaboration technologies, in particular - will be the key to the success of the UK house-building industry (a sector currently plagued by a host of uncertainties, not least a d...

CAD Insider Roopinder Tara attended last week's Bentley bonanza in Baltimore (see my post) and, in a post Greener than Thou , has been wondering about how green a CAD company can be when, after all, its design software will be used to create edifices consuming large amounts of natural resources. Ben...

It seems hardly a week goes by at the moment without someone talking about what has (or - more likely - hasn't) changed in the UK construction industry in the ten years since Sir John Egan produced his report, Rethinking Construction. A couple of weeks ago, Building magazine produced a depressin...

In England, Site Waste Management Plans (SWMPs) will become a legal requirement this weekend - from 6 April 2008 - and will affect anyone procuring, designing, planning or managing a construction project costing more than £300,000, plus suppliers to the construction industry, and environmental...

The construction collaboration business formerly known as Citadon has featured on this blog a few times recently (mainly in my excursions into the early history of CTSpace - here). I recently talked to someone who used to re-sell Citadon's ProjectNet solution while at west London-based Rock Con...

In the late 1990s and into the first year or so of the 21st century, the dot.com boom say billions invested in new online ventures across great swathes of industry and commerce. The global architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry was no different. Millions were pumped into new star...

Shadow IT is a term used to refer to those people performing IT functions within an organisation but who are not actually part of the official IT department. It can take many forms - from innocent reliance on advice from the unofficial Excel expert at the next desk, through use of work-aro...

My musings last week (here and here) on CAD-as-a-Service have stimulated some interest, including a SaaSblogs post, and a comment from Rami Hamodah, who, quite rightly, suggests that "offering CAD-as-a-Service is much harder to do than offering business software-as-a-service such as CRM" and wo...

Evan Yares' CAD blog alerted me to a great article by Brian Seitz among the COFES blogs. Brian asks:  Is SaaS the Killer App for the CAD Industry? , suggesting that: "the business model most major CAD vendors operate under - market share and maintenance annuities - is showing its...

Here, at long last, are my final two predictions for 2008 (see numbers one, two and three). 4. Recession to have impact upon the collaboration technology market With gloomy economic predictions almost daily at the moment, it is pretty safe to predict that any UK recession will have impacts upon the ...