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NAKHEEL SELECTS BIW TO HELP DELIVER OVER 1 KILOMETRE HIGH TOWER SaaS specialist selected by iconic developer for Nakheel Tower 27 October 2008  Nakheel, Dubai’s leading property developer, has selected BIW Technologies (BIW) to deliver Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to support design and construction of Nakheel Tower, part of the Nakheel Harbour & Tower development. The Nakheel Tower, which will be over a kilometre high, is at the heart of a 10-year development in the Jebel Ali area of Dubai. BIW, who announced a corporate deal with Nakheel in March 2008, has been working with the Nakheel Harbour & Tower project team since early 2007.
The Nakheel Tower will have more than 200 floors and approximately 150 lifts. It will be the centrepiece of a major 270 hectare development, Nakheel Harbour & Tower, providing homes and offices for more than 55,000 people, including another 40 towers ranging in height from 20 to 90 floors. Heavily inspired by Islamic design and geometry, the development also proposes over 3,500 hotel rooms and over 950,000 m2 of commercial and retail space, the world’s only inner city harbour, and large expanses of green spaces, including canal walks, parks and landscaping. The project team includes architect Woods Bagot, building services engineer Norman Disney & Young and structural engineer WSP. More than 200 individuals – in locations including Australia, the USA, Japan and the UK, as well as the United Arab Emirates - have so far been registered as BIW users. This figure will increase significantly once work on the Tower itself starts. Chris O’Donnell, Nakheel’s Chief Executive Officer, says: “Working on such huge, complex and demanding developments requires efficient collaboration among multiple teams and multiple organizations. We selected the BIW system for its ability to manage complex collaboration and reporting requirements at Nakheel and with our project teams.”
BIW General Manager, Middle East, Dr Asif Sharif says: “BIW won this project – which predated our corporate deal - against stiff competition from other vendors by virtue of its team’s experience, the proven track record of its technology in managing mega-projects, and the scalability of its application and SaaS infrastructure. For valued customers like Nakheel, we also have a UAE-based hosting facility and a 24/7 dedicated global helpdesk to help ensure high levels of service. We are delighted to have such a prestigious project in our portfolio.”
- ends - More information from: Notes to editors About BIW
- In March 2008, BIW announced that it had signed a corporate agreement with Nakheel to deliver Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to manage and deliver Nakheel’s development projects throughout the United Arab Emirates. The Tower project was one of several schemes that predated that agreement.
- 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. It is supporting projects in more than 20 countries across Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Australasia. BIW opened an office in Dubai in 2006 and a base in India in October 2007.
- BIW Technologies Middle East is based at 7th Floor, Dubai World Trade Centre, PO Box 9204, Dubai, UAE.
- The BIW platform is a sophisticated web-based supply chain integration technology, designed specifically for construction projects or programmes. Each client is provided with a unique, web-based project or programme-specific environment 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 UK Ministry of Defence, the Wellcome Trust, Mace, Bovis Lend Lease, ISG, Kajima, Gleeds and Fitzpatrick, and developers Argent, Land Securities, Ballymore, Dandara and Garbe.
- BIW is a registered trademark of BIW Technologies Ltd.
About Nakheel Harbour & Tower
- Nakheel Harbour & Tower will be Dubai’s capital – there is nothing like it in Dubai. At the core of the Nakheel Harbour & Tower development is a tower more than a kilometre high and the world’s only inner city harbour. Nakheel has focused on creating a true community – a location for working, relaxing and entertaining and for art and culture.
- In line with its role in shaping the city’s future and creating some of the world’s most iconic developments, Nakheel has taken its inspiration from Islamic design and geometry.
- Nakheel is inspired by the Islamic principles: inclusion, innovation, diversity, excellence, growth and progress to create not just the building and design of Nakheel Harbour & Tower, but also its community.
- It is a precinct that minimises car use and maximises train, bus and water transportation. A complete transportation hub blends into the harbour area with metro transportation combined with a unique water transport interchange, with Abra & Dhow station links.
- The development includes canal walks, parks and gardens, and landscaping which will also contribute to wellbeing and increased outdoor activity for those communities. It will have the largest public promenade in Dubai.
- Nakheel Harbour & Tower is a sustainable, compact precinct offering an alternative lifestyle built on walkability, choice of transport, variety of public and open spaces including sky gardens, and “living” bridges.
About Nakheel
- Nakheel is one of the world's largest privately held real estate developers, and a key player in realising the vision of Dubai for the 21st century: creating a world class destination for living, business and tourism.
- Nakheel is developing an iconic portfolio of innovative landmark projects in Dubai, and now in key markets around the globe, across a range of sectors - residential, commercial, hotels, retail, and leisure. Nakheel's projects are conservatively estimated to be worth US$80 billion. Upon completion Nakheel's waterfront projects will have added more than 1,000km of shoreline to Dubai's coastline.
- Nakheel's Dubai portfolio currently includes Nakheel Harbour & Tower, Palm Jumeirah, Palm Jebel Ali, Palm Deira, The World, Waterfront, The Universe, Jumeirah Islands, Jumeirah Village, Jumeirah Park, Jumeirah Heights, The Gardens, Discovery Gardens, Ibn Battuta Mall, Al Furjan, International City, and Dragon Mart.
- Nakheel is a key entity within Dubai World. Dubai World is one of the world's largest holding companies and supervises a portfolio of businesses and projects for the Dubai government across five continents and more than 100 countries.
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