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Over sixty major energy companies worldwide have used CTSpace solutions to help them achieve greater efficiency, increased collaboration, and stronger compliance either in the project setting or for general company operations. Sample projects and company-wide operations, amounting to billions of GBP in operational costs, are listed in the brochure...

CTSpace solutions enable transportation companies to reduce operating costs, improve efficiency and minimise risk ensuring effective communication of key documents across the supply chain. CTSpace is currently involved in Transport projects worth a total value of over £24 billion...

CTSpace solutions are currently being used on a large number of projects in the health sector, valued at over £2,34 billion. CTSpace provides electronic document management and project collaboration solutions to optimise the exchange and coordination of workflows between asset owners and all other parties associated with the project.

Investment plans for the water industry as a whole are set on a five-year cycle. The latest, known as Asset Management Plan 4 (AMP4) sets the investment plan and efficiency targets for water companies from 2005 to 2010. Together with Balfour Beatty Utilities Limited, Barhale Construction PLC, Biwater Treatment Limited, Black & Veatch Limited, Carl Bro Group Limited and Skanska Aker Kvaerner, Anglian Water have formed the @one Alliance. The Alliance will deliver a large capital investment programme, covering approximately £750 million out of the total £1.4bn AMP4 programme. This programme of work was agreed by Anglian Water, with the water industry regulator OFWAT in 2004, during the regulatory price review process

AMEC Natural Resources exchanges documents and data continually with customers, each of whom may use very different structures, processes and systems. A typical AMEC Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) project manages as many as 100,000 documents and may result in over 2.5 million single document transactions. If each of these transactions were to take 10 minutes this process could consume around 400,000 person-hours.

"The potential of locked-in files" - Effective document management can do more than just save time and money on a new project. Amec’s Jeff Harrison explains how constantly evolving software is helping to unleash creativity in the oil and gas industry.

Aspire Defence is working with the Ministry of Defence to provide 18,000 Army and civilian personnel with a modern living and working environment over the next 35 years. They selected CTSpace's collaboration technology to manage the immense volume of design documentation and correspondence in a timely and accurate way, reducing costs and minimising errors and delays. CTSpace was selected for its ease of use, flexible file structure and effective storage and retrieval.

BT & Crown Castle Roll Out Complex Document Management System in Only Four Weeks to Deliver Huge Project Savings.

Centrica have committed to investing more than £750 million in wind powered generation over the next few years. This will help to meet government targets to tackle climate change by reducing carbon emissions. All the power generated will be supplied to their energy and home services provider, British Gas.  CTSpace technology will streamline the way in which Centrica Engineers and Project Managers handle key information and communicate it to their supply chain throughout the project lifecycle.

Serving the city of Chicago and 40 surrounding suburbs, the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) operates the nation’s second-largest public transportation system. The CTA has approximately 2,000 buses that cover more than 150 routes and 2.273 route miles. Buses provide about one million passenger trips a day and serve more than 12,000 posted bus stops. CTA’s 1,190 rapid transit cars operate over eight routes through 144 stations and 222 miles of track and provide approximately 500,000 customer trips daily.

Housing in the Thames Gateway are is experiencing a major growth surge. More than 20,000 new homes are planned over the next 3-5 years, a significant percentage of which are being designated 'affordable housing'. East Thames Housing Association, together with the developer Bellway Homes is pioneering the deployment of a mixed-use sustainable development which will consist of some 500 homes for sale, rental or shared ownership.

"Optimum Document Management" - With hydrocarbon extraction becoming more technically complex, document management is imperative in ensuring efficient, safe operations. Tim Fleet, CTSpace, and Yuri Klochko, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, reveal how new platforms can optimise workflow, boost productivity and facilitate smooth, effective collaboration. Read the Oil&Gas Agenda press article...

Document control and Collaboration on the design of two coal-fired power stations at Eemshaven and Hamm for RWE - As part of the RWE power station renovation program, the Consult IKS Energy planning department at HOCHTIEF has been awarded the contract for the structural design of two coal-fired power stations. At Eemshaven in the Netherlands, a new coal-fired power station with a gross capacity of 1,600 MW will be erected on a site covering approx. 125 acres. The new facility can be partly fired using biomass and is due to be connected to the grid in 2013. In addition, the power station at Hamm in North Rhine-Westphalia will be upgraded to the most advanced power-station technology with the construction of a dual-block facility.

CTSpace drives London Underground’s Information Management Strategy forward.

MAN Diesel is the world’s leading provider of large-bore diesel engines for marine and power plant applications. The company has gained the largest order in its history with a total order volume of around €750 million the order to work with the French energy giant Electricité de France (EDF). The French energy company has set MAN the task of constructing three diesel power stations as well as additional engine supply in its overseas Départements Réunion, Guadeloupe and Martinique. The contract means that all French Departments that are not on the European mainland will be supplied with electricity from MAN Diesel engines.

Morgan Ashurst, previously AMEC, created the 'inspirED' joint venture with InnisFree and Equion, to bid for one of the UK's largest PFI schools project for South Lanarkshire Council. The contract for the delivery of 17 new and 2 refurbished secondary schools, and the provision of estate management services over the 30-year concession period, is valued in excess of £290million.

Mustang has established a worldwide reputation for quality engineering design and project management services to the upstream oil and gas, process plants, pipeline, automation and control, and process and industrial industries. Performing with energy, innovation, excellence and quality, Mustang provides a full range of services from engineering and construction management of offshore structures and onshore production facilities to design and inspection of pipeline projects.

"Tame the paper tiger" - Today’s oil and gas projects often involve multiple partners and thousands of pages of documentation. Clyde Smith of Mustang tells World Expro how enterprise-wide document management systems can optimise workflow, cut costs and act as the glue that holds a rapidly expanding company together...

In February 2008, MVV Energie AG completed the ‘revitalisation’ of its head office building in Mannheim. The Group refurbished its administrative tower in order to meet the latest fire prevention and building codes and standards, and renovated its ‘Neckarvorlandgebäude’ building. The head office complex now boasts an impressive new conference centre and a state-of-the-art office layout with standardised workspaces. The project managers explored a number of new avenues, particularly in terms of energy-saving methods.

NNE is a leading supplier of engineering and construction services to the worldwide pharmaceutical and biotechnological industries. The company’s technical competencies span engineering, construction, validation, start-up optimization, reconstruction for product development and production plants, laboratories and more. A subsidiary of Novo Nordisk A/S, NNE has functioned independently since 1991, and is headquartered in Denmark with subsidiaries in China, France, Switzerland, Sweden and the United States.

For more than 60 years, the Odebrecht Group has been a leading global player in the construction of large-scale projects - including buildings, dams, thermoelectric plants, hydroelectric plants, nuclear and petrochemical complexes, refineries, resorts, subways, highways, railroads. bridges, airports and irrigation systems. The company has nearly 200 subsidiaries and affiliates in 14 countries, and has been named one of the world’s largest international contractors by Engineering News Record.

Created in 1997, RFF is responsible for managing and upgrading the French railway network. As the owner of the national network, RFF manages all existing infrastructure as well as all projects and operations that take place on the rail network. As part of this role, it is responsible for easy time controls and quality of projects.Managing the construction of a new high-speed rail link – the Ligne à Grande Vitesse Rhin-Rhône, RFF was looking for a technology solution to help control and coordinate the project....

"Documents that bridge the gap". CTSpace was featured in World Expro Magazine’s September 2010 Issue. The leader in upstream analysis covers the global leader in meeting the content management requirements of the top upstream companies. The article details the increased importance of document management systems with full engineering functionality as government oversight of the upstream industry strengthens internationally; addresses how CTSpace in particular stands as the surest response to increased requirements, with the depth, quality, and variety of its solutions; and provides a case study of the Moroccan oil refining company SAMIR using CTSpace to manage documents and workflows as it expanded and retooled its operations.

Strabag is the fourth largest construction firm in Germany and the largest in Austria. They are the lead contractor on the €100m construction of ‘Highlight Business Towers' in Munich designed by the internationally
renowned architects Murphy/Jahn. The international project team has identified numerous benefits from adopting CTSpace's on-demand collaboration.

Sunderland ARC is an urban regeneration company founded by English Partnerships, One NorthEast and Sunderland City Council. The remit is to deliver the physical regeneration of large areas within the city of Sunderland. The company is part of the government sponsored Urban Renaissance aimed at transforming the economic and social life of cities.  The ARC will invest more than £1billion in the regeneration of the city over the next 15 years.   This includes over 300 hectares of brownfield land, more than 3 million sq ft of commercial, retail, leisure and civic space and more than 3,000 housing units.

Founded in 1998, The McIntosh Group (TMG) provides process innovation consulting and architecture services to corporate, commercial and other clients that rely on developing, expanding, renovating and acquiring buildings to meet their business objectives. TMG works with some of the nation’s top office supply and electronics retailers, restaurant concept franchisers and management companies to deliver building openings as promised, thereby supporting their ability to meet shareholder expectations.

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