“Web-based construction collaboration technologies such as BIW Information Channel are becoming increasingly widely used in today’s projects,” says Paul Wilkinson, BIW head of corporate communications. “Many industry people want to know more about how to apply the technologies, but they can be wary of events which comprise a series of ‘sales pitches’ from technology vendors.
“The NCCTP’s conference is refreshingly different. There are no vendor presentations or case studies. The accent is on educating and informing delegates. It offers perspectives on the differing demands of clients, contractors and consultants, and new insights on collaboration in the aerospace industry and in the US construction market.”
Making Collaboration Pay, the NCCTP’s first annual conference will take place at the SAS Radisson Hotel in London on 15 November 2005. For further information or to register for the conference visit http://www.ciria.org/conferences_151105.htm.
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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 customers include United Utilities, Sainsbury’s, BAA, housebuilders Crest Nicholson and the Peabody Trust, Marks & Spencer, the Ministry of Defence, the Wellcome Trust, O2, Mace, Bovis Lend Lease, Kajima and developers Land Securities and Garbe.
- BIW and BIW Information Channel are registered trademarks or trademarks of BIW Technologies Ltd.
