NEWS RELEASE
December 01, 1999
Contact: Leo Schlosberg
(847) 639-2829
HeavyWare.com has been chosen to lead the Catalogs
Working Group, one of six such groups that make up the
larger aecXML Working Group.
HeavyWare.com's Director of Technology,
Ari Gordon-Schlosberg will be leading efforts to
define an industry-wide standard for the exchange of
catalog data in the A/E/C community.
"A whole new world of painless specifying and purchasing
is about to sweep the industry. Soon it will be
possible for architects to browse a catalog and select
items to place in their designs without leaving their
CAD applications. Not only that, but the information
about the components they choose will seamlessly
integrate themselves into their drawings. Using the
power of the Internet and computers to find the perfect
piece for their projects will represent a quantum
leap in the design process. Contrasted with the current
practice of spending hours poring over paper catalogs,
it's like coming out of the Dark Ages of page flipping
and extensive, fruitless searching," said
Gordon-Schlosberg, "And architects are not the only
ones who will reap the benefits. The information that
catalog purveyors have about their products is useful in
the estimation and specification phases of a project as
well."
"What really excites me is integration of our work with the
work being done in the Construction Management Working
Group: the real killer app here is the combination of
pervasive accessible data and wireless communications;
it won't be uncommon for the people installing the
building components to have the same product information
right in front of them that the product vendors
themselves have."
More about aecXML
aecXML is designed to facilitate communications and
e-commerce among the various organizations involved in
A/E/C projects. These include architects, engineers,
contractors, owner/operators, estimators, consultants,
materials suppliers, building product manufacturers and
others. aecXML uses the XML-standard revolution and the
BizTalk Framework to remove the current barriers to
exchanging A/E/C-specific information in electronic
business-to-business conversations.
More about the aecXML Project
The aecXML Project, directed by noted architectural
technology consultant Jerry Laiserin, is a collection of
independent, interested parties whose purpose is to review
and exchange ideas on aecXML's initial
specification. Since its inception in August of 1999, the
aecXML Project has gained interest from 450+ interested
organizations on six continents.
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