Building today reports that the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' e-tendering system has been used only 50 times in the 15 months since its launch. The institution is said to be ‘baffled’; its executive director Joe Martin remarks: "never underestimate the power of inertia.� Drivers Jo...

Reading PR Week magazine last week, I enjoyed a page of the "top five New Year's resolutions made by the UK's comms professionals". Briefly, these were: Survive the credit crunch Embrace the digital age Win an industry award Find a work/life balance Invest more in CSR All pretty laudible, but I thin...

Fellow Be2camp organiser Martin Brown (here) and I (here and here, for example) have both written several recent blog postings about the AEC sector's adoption of Web 2.0 tools. Martin's post was also picked up by the US-based Construction Software Review blog ( Construction needs to embrace technolo...

The R-word has arrived. In his Brickonomics blog, my good friend Brian Green today talks, not for the first time, about "the recession in construction", which he says "is looking increasingly desperate as the giant commercial sector appears to be heading for a nasty fall". Earlier this year, like ma...

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...

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 ...

Continuing my thinking about some trends for 2008 (see yesterday's post), here's my next prediction.... 3. Collaboration vendors to push SaaS and sustainability Vendors of construction collaboration technologies have generally been pretty upbeat about the contribution their systems ca...