How good are extranets?
Building (25 August 2006) 
"It may seem that project extranets are an accepted part of project best practice, but not everyone’s using them and not everyone likes them. Sonia Soltani weighs up the pros and cons," and talks to several BIW customers, including Gleeds, Fitzpatrick and Bovis Lend Lease. Full Story...

What’s going on within Bovis Lend Lease
Contract Journal (16 August 2006) 
"Bovis became famed for Hummingbird, our earlier project collaboration tool, but for the past 18 months we have been moving further ahead by developing Intouch, in partnership with BIW.… We did an assessment of potential partners and BIW was in the best position to satisfy what we were looking for." Full story...

QSs back web portals
QS News (28 July 2006) 
"QSs who use web portals on projects are the biggest cheerleaders for the digital method of delivering projects, according to a new survey." BIW’s Paul Wilkinson, chairman of the steering group that commissioned the study for the Network for Construction Collaboration Technology Providers (NCCTP), described the results as a "strong commitment to a technology that only really emerged five or six years ago". Full Story... 

Building Awards 2006: Entrepreneur of the Year
Building (6 April 2006) 
BIW Technologies won the 2006 Building Awards 'Entrepreneur of the Year' category, being described as a "firm that seems intent on wiping paper use out of the industry altogether". Full Story...