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Build London Live Award Winners announced!

09 July 2008 Author: Build London Live

Build London Live was a tremendous success. 10 teams from 5 different continents participated in this 48 hour online collaborative design event. More than 300 observers used Asite's online collaboration platform to watch the different steps of the design and the Build London Live website had 49,327 hits on the 26th of June alone! More...

Taylor Woodrow selects i-MO to support Contract sites

19 June 2008 Author: COMIT

One of COMIT's demonstration projects "Intelligent Mobile Office" has led to take-up of this device by Taylor Woodrow Construction.

This collaborative project between Electronic Media Services, Jackson Civil Engineering and Shepherd Construction has led to the development and production of a device that addresses a key problem in today's industry - The rapid delivery of data and voice services to construction site project offices. COMIT are continuing their work in this area though t... More...

User Acceptance of Mobile IT Project - Request for Participation

17 June 2008 Author: Neill Pawsey - COMIT

End user acceptance of technology has been identified by both COMIT and FIATECH (a US based consortium and COMIT partner) as a critical factor affecting the success and failure of mobile IT projects. Both organisations are seeking to better understand how to effectively overcome user-centered barriers to successfully implementing technology related to usability, training and change management. More...

COMIT Appoint new Programme Manager

09 June 2008 Author: COMIT

The COMIT Steering Group are pleased to announce the appointment of Neill Pawsey as the organisations' new Programme Manager. This is a very positive move for the Community and will enable faster progression of projects and help to leverage the best possible value for COMIT members. More...

FIATECH LAUNCHES PROJECT AIMED AT DEVELOPING CORE TECHNOLOGY COMPETENCIES

03 June 2008 Author: Danette Ward - FIATECH

AUSTIN, TX, May 28, 2008 - FIATECH has initiated a new project to identify unique post secondary educational institutions' programs and catalog instructional techniques used to teach design and construction technology. The project will be led by Allan Chasey, Ph.D., P.E., from Arizona State University and will include industry input. By identifying innovative and successful industry and academic programs that currently exist in academic institutions, these programs can be used to assist and expa... More...

RFID In The Construction Industry Interview With Fran Rabuck, Bentley Systems

01 June 2008 Author: RFID Solutions Online

RFID Connections interviewed Fran Rabuck, Director of the Real Time Asset Lab for Bentley Systems. Fran is the Team co-champion for the Smartchips research projects within FIATECH, a consortium of companies involved in the construction industry. More...

New Member - Barhale joins COMIT Community

23 May 2008 Author: COMIT

COMIT welcomes a new member to its community. Barhale is a leading civil engineering and infrastructure services contractor in the UK, with an annual turnover in the region of £120M. The company provides a broad range of quality services including construction and refurbishment of client owned assets with a significant input into feasibility and design to facilitate value engineered solutions for below ground infrastructure such as pipelines and cables and above ground structures including water... More...

Egan 10th Anniversary - Drinks Reception - House of Commons - 20th May 08

20 May 2008 Author: Constructing Excellence

The Egan 10th Anniversary Drinks Reception was held at the House of Commons on 20th May. Sir John Egan gave a rivetting speech outlining his view on the Construction Industry 10 years after his famous report. Click below to read the transcript More...

RFID White Paper: ABCs of RFID, Understanding and Using Radio Frequency Identification

12 May 2008 Author: Silicon.com

Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) is one of the fastest growing and most beneficial technologies being adopted by businesses today. Adoption of this Automatic Data-Collection (ADC) technology has recently been fueled by the establishment of key standards, retailer and government mandates, improved technology performance and falling implementation costs. RFID offers great value for many industries and applications. However, misperceptions about what RFID is and what it can do pose obstacl... More...

RFID in Construction

17 April 2008 Author: Constructech

FIATECH, www.fiatech.org, Austin, Texas, is sponsoring the Smart Chips project, which investigates RFID (radio frequency identification) technologies that can be adapted for field construction and operations and maintenance applications. More...

FIATECH The Big Easy Way!

07 April 2008 Author: Adobe

The Fiatech Technology Conference delivered once again. For those of you who are not familiar with Fiatech or more importantly have not joined Fiatech need to engage. I attend and sit through countless presentations that identify the issues that the industry currently faces, but what continues to impress me about this organization is it is delivering solutions for its members and giving a direction to the technology companies as it relates to standards. More...

Mobile Technology in Construction 2007

06 December 2007 Author: Mary-Lou Nash

More and more construction companies are taking up the opportunities offered by mobile technology. On this note, Peter Cunningham, Director of Constructing Excellence and The IT Construction Forum, opened the 2007 Mobile Technology in Construction conference which focused largely on the work supported by COMIT, Construction Opportunities for Mobile IT. More...