BIW Information Channel is believed to be Europe’s most intensively used web-based collaboration system for the construction and property industries. At 25 May 2003, the total number of users had reached 24,968, from 2808 different companies. The total number of projects was 1272, with a total capital value conservatively estimated at around £11 billion. The total number of drawings hosted was 423,176; the total number of documents stood at 255,052.
Clients include Sainsbury’s, BT, Capital One Bank, housebuilders Crest Nicholson and the Peabody Trust, Marks & Spencer, Manchester Airport, the Ministry of Defence, Ikea, the Welsh Development Agency, Asda, the Wellcome Trust, Kajima and developer Garbe.
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- Project collaboration services from BIW Technologies (www.biwtech.com) were first employed in 1999 on UK construction projects for Sainsbury’s. BIW believes it is the European leader in web-based collaboration systems for the construction and property industry, measured by numbers of users, usage and volume of data.
- BIW Information Channel is a sophisticated web-based supply chain integration technology, designed specifically for construction projects or programmes. Each client is provided with a unique, project or programme-specific website created around a knowledge database. With this, data can be made available securely to every team member – from the earliest concepts, through detailed design, buildability studies, pre-fabrication, construction, maintenance, operation and improvement to the eventual demolition or dismantling of the facility.
- BIW and BIW Information Channel are registered trademarks or trademarks of BIW Technologies Ltd.
