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DOWNTURN BURJ DUBAI WINS BIW-SPONSORED AWARD Software-as-a-Service pioneer boosts its Middle East profile at major industry event in Dubai 17 November 2008 
(L - R: England rugby union international Neil Back, Mr Ahmad Al Matrooshi, UAE Managing Director, Emaar Properties, BIW's Asif Sharif, and event compere David Foster from TV network Al Jazeera)
BIW Technologies' general manager Middle East, Asif Sharif, was delighted to present the trophy for best mixed use project to the Downtown Burj Dubai project, which boasts the world's tallest tower and world’s largest shopping centre, on Thursday 13 November 2008. Organised by Building magazine and endorsed by the Emirates Green Building Council, the inaugural Gulf States Building Awards highlighted the most exceptional projects across the six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates). BIW sponsored the "Mixed use project of the year" category of the Awards, which were presented at a glittering ceremony at the Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai. In front of over 600 people, Dr Asif Sharif of BIW presented the award to Mr Ahmad Al Matrooshi, UAE Managing Director of Emaar Properties, representing the Downtown Burj Dubai project. The project was acclaimed for the epic scale of its vision and the high quality of the development so far: It takes vision of a truly global scale to deliver a project of Downtown Burj Dubai's scale and breadth. Not only is Emaar building the world's tallest tower at Burj Dubai, it is also throwing in the world's largest shopping centre, too. So large is the project that it has its own tram system, a 6km line with 10 stations ferrying visitors to and from its various attractions. The project's quality and high profile has already made it the most prime real estate in town – how many other schemes can boast a structure that is recognised around the world before it is even complete?
The other finalists in this category were: the Aspire Tower, Doha, Qatar; Dubai Festival City; Dubai Marina; Durrat al Bahrain in Bahrain; and the Palm Jumeirah, in Dubai. For Dr Sharif, the event was an opportunity to raise the profile of BIW Technologies in the eyes of many of the region’s major clients, contractors and consultants: "BIW's sophisticated project control platform is already widely used on major mixed use developments in Dubai. This sponsorship will have boosted recognition of the BIW brand across the Middle East region."
- ends - More information from: Notes to editors - Project collaboration services from BIW Technologies 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 Nakheel, Argent, Land Securities, Ballymore, Dandara and Garbe.
- BIW is a registered trademark of BIW Technologies Ltd.
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