Publications

IT Intelligence

IT Intelligence is a briefing, first published in our e-news or insITe, designed to explain the opportunities and pitfalls presented by the use of IT in construction firms. To download past articles or to receive the e-news, you need to register with this site.

Knowledge Management - new kid on the block or old news? (September 2006)
Empower your supply chain through effective use of IT (March 2006)
Life Cycle Costing (LCC) Calculations - assessing the software (March 2001)
Underground infrastructure - buried or lost? (January 2006)
Mobile solutions for construction (December 2005)
What lies beneath? (December 2005)
Data Storage Overload - Data Management Conundrum (November 2005)
Are IT vendors listening to the construction industry? (October 2005)
How can construction clients benefit from better IT?(September 2005)
10 tips on how to effectively market your company online (February 2004)
10 tips what to look for when using or selecting Project Management (PM) tools (February 2004)
Are you using IT and the Internet in the optimal way? (February 2004)
Do you know how to fast-find the information you need on the web? (February 2004)
Electronic documents with pen and paper? (February 2004)
Is Virtual Reality as essential in construction as it is in games? (February 2004)
Is the "Electronic Reverse Auctions" Framework supported by OGC going to kill UK construction? (February 2004)
Managing content or just managing documents? (February 2004)
Mobile, wireless and remote, but is construction there yet? (February 2004)
Web traffic statistics – fact or fiction? (February 2004)
Corporate e-learning –revolution or torture in corporate training? (August 2003)
IT or not IT? – many SMEs wonder… (August 2003)
Systems managing e-learning - what's involved (August 2003)
Another approach to software interoperability (July 2003)
"Cooking", "bugging" or online marketing (July 2003)
10 useful things to know when you are switching on your PC (July 2003)
3D intelligent object technology: the software considerations (July 2003)
A different look at the Knowledge Management in construction (July 2003)
Broadband dymistified (July 2003)
Buying materials online empowers construction - fact or fiction in the UK? (July 2003)
CRM - Customer Relationship Management - do we really need software to deal with our customers? (July 2003)
Copyright - are you breaking the law? (July 2003)
Handhelds - new fashion statement or useful tool for construction? (July 2003)
How to speed up your Internet performance - practical tips (July 2003)
How to trick your search engine into selecting the information you need (July 2003)
IT security - Trojans attack (July 2003)
IT security - genuine concern or expensive gibberish? (July 2003)
Is your supply chain a chain around your neck? (July 2003)
Keyboard lost - welcome Tablet PC (July 2003)
Let's bow to the Gods of the Internet (July 2003)
Make IT pay (February 2004)
Online bidding - controversy or welcome practice? (July 2003)
Paperless office or still sifting documents? (July 2003)
Power of Outlook - don't only send and receive but also manage your e-mails(July 2003)
Spam, spam and more spam... (July 2003)
Storing your electronic data off-site - what to watch out for! (July 2003)
Technology attempts to "resolve" KM (July 2003)
Tender, bid, auction - and all online - should construction industry embrace or reject? (July 2003)
The future is bright, the future is learning online (July 2003)
What can your PDA do what a mobile phone cannot?(July 2003)
Digitally signed - fact or future? (June 03)
E-everything for construction - but what's in it for my company? (June 2003)
Extranets for all (June 2003)
IT acquisition in your company - a shopping list or a strategy? (June 2003)
Is your company's Intranet just an expensive toy? (June 2003)
New generation of company websites and their masters (June 2003)
Online forum or against (June 2003)
Project Collaboration (June 2003)
Project Collaboration Online ( June 2003)
Upwardly mobile construction(June 2003)
The quest for interoperable software (June 2003)