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 BIW TO SPONSOR GULF STATES BUILDING AWARDS 2008
Software-as-a-Service pioneer to boost profile in Middle East region 17 July 2008 BIW Technologies, one of the world’s leading providers of online construction project control software, is to sponsor an award in the inaugural Gulf States Building Awards. BIW is sponsoring the "Best mixed use development" category of the Awards, which are to be presented at a ceremony at the Madinat Jumeirah in Dubai on Thursday 13 November 2008. Organised by Building magazine and endorsed by the Emirates Green Building Council, the Awards will highlight 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). The awards will recognise significant achievements in sustainability, innovation and overall project excellence, underline the growing importance of the Gulf to UK construction, and highlight the region’s leading role in construction around the world. According to BIW chief executive Colin Smith, the sponsorship decision followed two years of growth in its operations in the Gulf States: "BIW has opened a Middle East operations office and, having secured several substantial clients in the region, including a five-year corporate adoption with Dubai's largest property developer Nakheel, established a hosting facility in the region in 2007. "Sponsoring an award will help boost recognition of the BIW brand in the Middle East region, and the mixed use category is particularly applicable to our business, given the widespread use of the sophisticated BIW process management platform on projects of this kind."
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- Project collaboration services from BIW Technologies (www.biwtech.com) delivered on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) 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 SaaS-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 UK Ministry of Defence, the Wellcome Trust, Mace, Bovis Lend Lease, Kajima, Gleeds and Fitzpatrick, and developers Nakheel, Land Securities, Ballymore, Dandara and Garbe.
- BIW is a registered trademark of BIW Technologies Ltd.
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