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Financial Times reports: "BIW Technologies ... still plans a £25m to £40m listing on Aim in the first quarter of 2009 of market conditions stabilise."
International property developer The Resort Group selects BIW to support design and construction of two luxury resort developments – Tortuga and Dunas, worth a total of €100m (£82m) – in the Cape V...
BIW Technologies, one of the world’s leading providers of online construction project control software, increased its turnover by 27% per cent to £7.3 million in the year to 30 September 2008, with...
BIW presented the trophy for best mixed use project to the Downtown Burj Dubai project, boasting the world's tallest tower and world’s largest shopping centre, in the Gulf States Building Awards 20...
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 th...
BIW Technologies has made the final shortlist in four award categories for the Construction Computing Awards, organised by Construction Computing magazine. BIW’s web-based collaboration platform ha...
BIW grew its turnover by 24 per cent in the year to 30 September 2007, achieving over £0.5m in profits in the process
From "The Times" Talk yesterday suggested that BIW Technologies, the privately held online provider of software for construction projects, would report, in annual figures next week, that sales ha...
Daily Telegraph -- Dotcom survivor BIW has appointed investment bank Regent Associates on a possible £30m-£50m flotation on the Alternative Investment Market.
BIW announces it is to provide its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) system to support the design and construction of the headquarters of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle.
BIW's blog is intended to help promote discussion of issues relating to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and to sustainability. At BIW Technologies we have been talking about Software-as-a-Service sin...
New build, refurbishment and fit-out contractor Interior Services Group plc (ISG) has signed a new three-year corporate deal with BIW Technologies (BIW) to use its Software-as-a-Service constructio...
The ICT industry has poor green credentials. But, argues BIW CEO Colin Smith, this position can be reversed if companies take a more integrated and thoughtful approach to their ICT provision.
Bovis Lend Lease was shortlisted in the category of the Construction News Quality in Construction Awards 2008, for its efforts to develop a new web-based business management platform in partnershi...
BIW signed a corporate agreement with Nakheel, Dubai's leading property developer, to deliver Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications to manage and deliver Nakheel's development projects througho...
Contractor Primus Build has selected BIW Technologies (BIW) to provide its Software-as-a-Service construction collaboration platform to support existing and future projects.
Davis Langdon manages NEC contract processes online for St John's College 'Triangle' development in Cambridge.
BIW BOOSTS DUBAI HOSTING BIW implements a new locally hosted infrastructure to support its Middle East customers.
Argent and landowners London & Continental Railways and DHL-Exel have chosen BIW Technologies (BIW) to provide its construction collaboration and process management software to support the developm...
BIW Technologies expands its operations by opening a development and support centre in Vadodara, in the Indian state of Gujarat, with the assistance of Quickstart Global.
In an initiative part-led by BIW, the Network for Construction Collaboration Technology Providers (NCCTP) has become a new membership forum within the national construction organisation Constructin...
According to its latest accounts filed at Companies House, BIW turnover in 2006 grew to £4.66m, up from £4m the previous year, while losses were down to £171,000 (from £753,000 in 2005).
Building -- "Construction IT firm BIW Technologies has started to trade profitably for the first time since it was set up in 1999.... BIW has made a profit every month since May last year."
Inverness-based professional services consultancy Synergie Scotland has formed a technology partnership with BIW Technologies (BIW) to use BIW’s web-based collaboration platform to support the coll...
House of Fraser, Britain’s leading retailer of designer brands, agrees a corporate deal with BIW Technologies (BIW) to use BIW’s web-based collaboration platform to streamline the design and constr...
Turnover at BIW Technologies, the UK’s leading provider of web-based construction collaboration software, has grown for the sixth year running, while usage of BIW is growing at over 30 per cent, cl...
Canary Wharf Contractors Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canary Wharf Group Plc, has agreed a three-year corporate deal to use web-based collaboration systems from BIW Technologies (BIW) to d...
By implementing the system early in the scheme and mandating its use by all project team members, Crest Nicholson encouraged user ‘buy-in’ to the BIW web-based collaboration platform at the £350 mi...
Fitzpatrick Contractors has signed a three-year corporate deal with BIW to use its web-based construction collaboration technology on all projects for the next three years. It will also be using BI...
"QSs who use web portals on projects are the biggest cheerleaders for the digital method of delivering projects, according to a new survey." BIW’s Paul Wilkinson, chairman of the steering group tha...
Independent research commissioned by the Network for Construction Collaboration Technology Providers (NCCTP) shows that 74% of clients increasingly favour contractors with experience of using web-b...
BIW Technologies’ first national one-day user conference, held at The Oval conference centre, London, on Tuesday 16 May 2006, and attended by over 100 people, was “a great success,” said BIW CEO Co...
The Network for Construction Collaboration Technology Providers (NCCTP) has commissioned an independent survey of users of its members’ collaboration systems – or ‘extranets’. The research will be ...
BIW wins the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ award in the industry's 2006 "Oscars": the Building Awards. Organised by "Building" magazine, the Building Awards are the UK construction industry's premi...
BIW Technologies’ web-based construction collaboration technology has become the first application of its kind to be hosted on a system compliant with the stringent new global information security ...
The user-base of BIW Technologies’ web-based construction collaboration technology grew at a record rate during 2005.
BIW TECHNOLOGIES EXPANDS REGIONAL OFFICE Friday, December 02, 2005 Following a period of significant growth, continued investment in its UK software development, product support and help-desk team...
BIW Technologies (BIW) has passed another milestone in adoption of its web-based construction collaboration system, or ’project extranet’. The total number of registered users reached 50,000 on 26 ...
The UK’s first book focused on construction project ‘extranets’ has been written by BIW Technologies’ head of corporate communications Paul Wilkinson. “Construction Collaboration Technologies: The ...
Demonstrations of BIW’s latest, intuitive, easy-to-use individual and team processes have prompted one experienced designer to say they put BIW Technologies “light years ahead of the competition”....
BIW has delivered the first NCCTP training courses in online project collaboration for Ireland’s Construction IT Alliance (CITA). The first two one-day courses were run at the offices of Paradigm T...
Gleeds has been using BIW Information Channel's online tendering functionality. Peter Dampier says: "150 contracts have since been run through the package, everything from a £250,000 deal to a £40m...
BIW Technologies (BIW), the UK’s leading provider of web-based construction collaboration systems, is one of five firms shortlisted in the ‘Building Entrepreneur of the Year’ category of the 2005 B...
Recent and impending growth in staff numbers due to several new client successes has prompted construction collaboration technology provider BIW Technologies (BIW) to relocate its head office from ...
Mace’s delivery of the Wellcome Trust’s new landmark London headquarters building was supported by the use of internet-based collaboration technology from BIW. Careful implementation and a continue...
Construction professionals could have generated enough construction drawings to create a tower more than a kilometre high if they had not been using the BIW collaboration system, says BIW.
An Anglo-American partnership is to deliver new collaborative functionality to users of BIW. BIW Technologies has signed a two-year $0.5 million (£275,000) agreement with Web4, a division of Calif...
BIW users have published half a million drawings and documents in a year, and are now publishing a thousand drawings every day. The five millionth login landmark has just been passed.
The latest version of BIW Technologies’ web-based collaboration platform features a new user interface that is easier to use and enables key processes to be completed more quickly and with fewer cl...
For clients Legal & General and Stanhope, Bovis Lend Lease's delivery of a £24m office development at 95 Queen Victoria Street in the City of London, EC4, supported by the BIW construction collabor...
More than a million drawings and documents have now been published via the BIW collaboration service, says BIW Technologies. Underlining its claim to have Europe’s most intensively used collaborati...
Project collaboration software provider BIW Technologies has come up with what could be the answer to the perennial gripe of slow download times from the web. It seemed that broadband was the answe...
Construction represents a tenth of UK GDP. This year 20% of all UK construction projects and up to 40% of those over £10m are predicted to use project collaboration tools. In response to this, the ...
BIW Technologies (BIW), the European market leader in web-based collaboration services for the construction and property sectors, has passed another milestone in the use of its service. During Sept...
The latest version of BIW Technologies’ web-based collaboration technology now offers the option of a fully integrated tendering system.
Independent research by e-business consultancy Compagnia confirms "BIW are the market leaders". BIW Technologies (BIW) has a 26.4 per cent share of the UK market for construction collaboration sys...
BIW Technologies (BIW) recorded the three millionth user log-in to its BIW collaboration service in June 2003. This landmark comes just over eight months after BIW passed the two million milestone...
The latest release of BIW Technologies’ web-based collaboration technology features a completely new approach to creating and managing ‘workflows’. The collaborative process management (CPM) toolse...
BIW RAISES THE STANDARD Tuesday, January 28, 2003 Continually improving its software to maintain its lead over the competition, BIW Technologies has just launched a new version of its web-based co...
BIW collaboration technology is now used by over 20,000 people, from 2500 companies, on more than 1000 projects, worth around £9bn. BIW Technologies (BIW) has registered some 10,000 new users of it...
O2 UK, has appointed international construction consultancy Gleeds to provide an integrated package of management, design, procurement and other related services for the refurbishment of 92 high st...
BIW Technologies (BIW) recorded the two millionth user log-in to its service on 10 October 2002. It is now believed to be Europe’s most intensively used web-based collaboration system for the const...
BIW Technologies (BIW), the European market leader in web-based collaboration services for the construction and property industry, has reached another milestone in the use of its service. In mid-Se...
The £160 million (250m Euro), 235 acre shopping and leisure complex, ‘Madrid Xanadu’, under construction by US developer Mills Corporation in Madrid, is being managed using the collaborative workin...
Crest Nicholson is using the BIW project extranet on its £200 million Park Central transformation scheme in Birmingham. The ten year project in the city centre will create 1,400 homes and in excess...
The European arm of Kajima, one of the world’s five largest contractors, has agreed a four-year deal, potentially worth £1 million, to employ collaboration systems from BIW Technologies (BIW) as it...
The Peabody Trust, London’s largest charitable housing trust, is using the BIW project extranet in two major regeneration schemes at King’s Cross and Southwark which will create 154 refurbished uni...
Sainsbury’s Property Company, the property arm of leading UK retailer Sainsbury’s, has agreed a three-year, £1.5 million deal with BIW Technologies, the collaboration web services provider. Sainsbu...
Leading consultant Citex Consulting reviewed the collaboration products on offer, and concluded that BIW's web service came out on top. A leading UK construction, property and facilities managemen...
"I visited BIW Technologies .... Their product evolved from a 1994 UK government research program that explored the power of collaboration through portals. The firm's Deputy Chairman is Sir Michael...
A 300,000 square foot, four-storey, state-of-the-art warehouse at Hatfield for online grocer Ocado is being built using BIW Technologies' web-based supply chain management system. Design work under...
BIW Technologies reaches a milestone in the use of its service, passing the 10,000 users landmark.
ISG, the support services group, has formed a strategic partnership with BIW Technologies (BIW), the UK market leader in collaboration systems. Already using BIW's information technology on a £33 m...
Kajima used BIW’s system to speed up design and build of a new superstore for Asda in North Wales during 2000, and went on to use it with other fast- track projects.
"Some of the UK's biggest companies are now using a system which streamlines project management and data sharing."
BIW Technologies (BIW), is providing its web-based collaboration service to the team managing the ‘Cornerstone’ headquarters project for the medical charity, The Wellcome Trust. Architect Michael ...
Using a project extranet on a small civil engineering project
BIW Technologies (BIW) has won its first public sector contract for the redevelopment of the Ministry of Defence (MOD) Andover North site. The prime contractor, Citex, will be using BIW's supply ch...
Attenda Ltd, Europe's first provider of Total Managed Hosting today announced that the leading UK provider of online collaboration technology for construction projects, BIW Technologies (BIW), has ...
BIW Technologies (formerly Building Information Warehouse) has launched a new version of its collaboration technology, offering significant additional benefits to clients and users. BIW has also mo...
BIW was used to help manage drawings and other documents during the fast-track delivery of Capital One Bank’s new European HQ in central Nottingham.
Building Information Warehouse, the leading UK provider of online collaboration technology for construction projects, has secured a further £3 million investment. The investment, in return for an e...
BIW voted best project extranet solution at a Construction Plus conference in March 2001
Construction Plus research concludes: "The leading project collaboration tool currently in the UK is the Project Information Channel from the Building Information Warehouse."
"Contract Journal" says: "Building Information Warehouse offers management support services backed by sophisticated software technology for a straight fee."
"BIW's dedication to research and development places it at the forefront. The provider is offering 3D web-enabled objects and is able to link manufacturers' object to CAD models." Richard McWilliam...
Gleeds, the international management and construction consultant, has formed an alliance with application service provider Building Information Warehouse to create a pan-European e-procurement syst...
Sir Michael Latham DL, author of the 1994 joint government and industry report Constructing the Team, is to join the board of Building Information Warehouse (theBIW.com), provider of supply chain i...
BIW sets up head office at 10 Lower Grosvenor Place, Victoria, London SW1
BIW is formed by Colin Smith, Bill Flind and Andrew Boaden
"Rethinking Construction" (1998) calls for an integrated project process
Combining the notion of a project database with new web-based browser programs, BIW's SaaS solution evolved and was tested on two projects, for BAA and Sainsbury. Internet technology provided the m...
The Building Information Warehouse – probably the UK construction industry's first portal – launches in early 1995.
Sir Michael Latham’s report "Constructing the Team" (1994) advocated partnering approaches for construction projects.
George Stevenson secures UK Department of the Environment support for a research project that became the Building Information Warehouse
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