Extranet Evolution

If you have visited this blog recently, you my have noticed a lack of updates.

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.

At an in-person London event, UK-based collaboration technology Revizto gave insights on efficiently implementing technologies.

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.

UK Government is aiming to make open, standardised data drive an improved local plans system.

UK tech startup Yeme Tech partners with Esri to improve urban planning to create happier, healthier cities.

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’?

A new interoperability code of practice for technologies, developed in the UK by the GIIG, has been launched.

An interoperability code of practice for technologies in the built and managed environment is set to be launched on Monday 17 April in London.

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.

Part of Hull, UK-based 55 Group, contract change management tech provider Sypro has expanded its offering and teamed up with Trimble Viewpoint.

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.

Judging from its 2022 ‘Glider Gathering’, Glider Technology is fast becoming an influential player in the UK construction technology market.

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 Octo…

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.

Causeway acquires leading provider of connected asset management software and services, Yotta.

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’).

Email management services company MailManager has been acquired by compliance software business Ideagen in a deal worth nearly £30 million.

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.

Planyard offers one place for all project financials management, keeping everything standardised and in sync, with a real-time view of project costs.