All IT and computing articles – Page 8
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FeaturesSuccess is all about keeping up standards
How do we stop our project data disappearing into a black hole of organisational chaos?
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FeaturesA good looking package
Architect Jonathan Reeves has been putting the Architecture Edition of Maxon’s Cinema 4D visualisation program through its paces, and he is impressed
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FeaturesGet the best out of your BlackBerry
My practice has issued me with a BlackBerry. I have not been able to put it down — but all I have been doing is check to see what’s happening at work.
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FeaturesMaking the model project
Edinburgh-based practice Gilberts invested in a Z Corp rapid prototyping machine to turn cad images into physical models. A year on, the architect and an engineer discuss the process and the dividends it has brought
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FeaturesSizing up the file sending options
I often need to send large files and packages to people I am working with. Email leaves a lot to be desired, and sometimes there just isn’t time to burn a CD/DVD and post it. Can you recommend an alternative method?
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FeaturesGet round growing pains
When Jefferson Sheard Architects needed to automate some basic administration tasks, it chose Rapport 3 from Cubic Interactive. Installed over a year ago, it has expanded with the firm.
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FeaturesFreeware secrets
How do I minimise my capital outlay while remaining licensed for software?
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FeaturesProgress at your fingertips
Hazle McCormack Young has replaced its own 15-year-old Excel-based project management tool with PH-media’s ProjectMinder. PartnerJohn McCormack explains how the system won the practice over
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FeaturesCollaboration lag
There is always room for improvement, but so much energy has been ploughed into design packages over the last couple of decades that, it could be argued, architects have everything they need.
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FeaturesSoftware to manage projects from the centre or the edge
In January’s eArchitect, Bentley’s Joe Croser forecast this year would be one of collaboration. This month he elaborates — and his arch rival, Autodesk’s Pete Baxter, responds.
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FeaturesAstudio shows how small practices with top-end kit can take on large, complex jobs
Since leaving Aedas, Richard Hyams has been putting together his own technology-based, highly collaborative practice. David Littlefield met him
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Bentley Architecture takes 3D to a new dimension
By taking advantage of a licence-exchange programme, ADP found itself with a copy of Bentley Architecture 3D tool. IT director Marc Thomas describes what it does