BIW SHORTLISTED FOUR TIMES IN CONSTRUCTION COMPUTING AWARDS 2008

Third successive year of nominations

22 September 2008

BIW Technologies (BIW) has made the final shortlist in four award categories for the Construction Computing Awards, organised by Construction Computing magazine. Online voting for the awards - at www.constructioncomputingawards.co.uk - will close on 10 November, with the winners announced at a London dinner on 20 November.

BIW’s web-based collaboration platform has been shortlisted for the following awards:

• E-commerce product of the year
• Business IT service provider of the year
• Document and content management software of the year, and
• Product of the year

BIW chief executive Colin Smith says: "This is the third consecutive year that BIW has been nominated. I hope thousands of construction industry IT users grab the opportunity to vote for their favourites. This is a rare opportunity for vendor organisations like BIW to learn which products and companies are highly rated by their end-users and customers."

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More information from:

BIW:

• Paul Wilkinson, BIW head of corporate communications – 01483 712620 or mobile 07788 445920
• Colin Smith, chief executive, BIW – 01483 712620

Construction Computing:

• Josh Boulton, Event manager – 01689 616000

Notes to editors:

• 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.
• 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, 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, Gleeds and developers Argent, Nakheel, Land Securities and Ballymore.
• BIW is a registered trademark of BIW Technologies Ltd.