San Francisco, USA – July 29, 2010 – Sword CTSpace Products VP Tim Fleet will deliver a presentation on the successful cases, potential uses, and discernable limitations of SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) or internet-hosted information management solutions in nuclear builds at the NIRMA 2010 Conference in Summerlin, Nevada. Mr. Fleet’s 3:45 p.m. August 16^th technical session titled, “Does the cloud have a role to play for information management in the nuclear new built era?” will note the drastic improvements SaaS has on inter-project communication, at the same time addressing compliance concerns and on-premise IM alternatives.

Brentford, UK – July 27, 2010 – Sword CTSpace client STRABAG was one of the project leaders on the €436 million Limerick Tunnel in Ireland, a four-lane, fifteen-bridge, 10km-long roadway that will serve primarily as a bypass of Limerick and as a connector of the cities of Galway and Cork. STRABAG completed a subterranean tunnel and provided the equipment for the construction of a 965 meter-long tunnel, the centerpiece of the project, using FusionLive for their document management and communication enhancement needs. Once voted the “European PPP-Deal of the Year 2006,” the Limerick Tunnel was completed within four years, two months quicker than expected, and its grand opening was attended by the Prime Minister of Ireland.

Summerlin, Nevada - July 6, 2010 - The Nuclear Information and Records Management Association (NIRMA) is the nuclear industry’s leader in information management. Since 1977 NIRMA has been uniquely qualified to provide guidance to commercial and Department of Energy (DOE) facilities in the areas of quality records programs, regulatory compliance activities, electronic records initiatives, document management technologies, and knowledge management issues.

Interview of Product Director Tim Fleet on page 9, in the "NIRMA looks to the future" section, on the theme, “Does the Cloud have a role to play for information management in the nuclear new built era?” . Tim Fleet will give a compelling presentation (technical session #19) on this theme, at the NIRMA 2010 Information Management Conference, Summerlin, Nevada on August 16.

Offshore Technology International (2010, Volume 1) - Finally a supplier of collaboration and document management applications for the construction industry is taking a customer centric view of how solutions should be supplied. Sword’s latest range of applications, "Fusion", have been developed through taking the industries viewpoint of considering not only function, but form and finance also. Having initially brought together some of the best engineering and construction applications into the same stable, i.e. the bringing together through acquisition of BuildOnline, Citadon CW, Cimage & Novasoft, Sword decided to take a fresh and different approach. Before embarking on an exercise to simply extract the best of each of these applications into a best in class application portfolio, Sword decided to take a broader look at the requirements of the industry by putting themselves in their customers’ boots! ....

Brentford, UK - May 17, 2010 – Sword CTSpace, a global provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications for the construction and engineering industries, is launching its brand-new “Engineering Collaboration” online community. It allows those involved in developing, implementing or working with engineering and construction collaboration technologies to report news, share and debate ideas and to promote the benefits of collaboration solutions. People from the engineering and construction sector and related industries will be able to view and participate in discussions. Conversely, engineering and construction collaboration technology developers will be able to draw attention to themselves and their industries and interact with potential clients. The website is located at www.engineering-collaboration.com ...

Sword CTSpace helps major refinery company increase its productivity

Brentford, UK – May 12, 2010 – Sword CTSpace’s FusionEnterprise for IBM FileNet P8 will be the subject of a customer testimonial by the Moroccan refinery company SAMIR at a session of the IBM IOD EMEA 2010 Conference in the Rome Marriot Park Hotel Wednesday May 19 11:45am-12:35pm (Room TBA). SAMIR, a public company with a staff of 1100 and $3.2 billion turnover in 2009, currently operates at a capacity of 6.5 MT/year (under expansion to 8.2 MT/year)...
 

Brentford, UK – May 7, 2010 – Sword CTSpace’s project collaboration solution FusionEnterprise for IBM FileNet P8 will be featured at the IBM IOD EMEA Conference in Rome on May 19-21, 2010. Sword CTSpace’s presentations will consist of live demos at their kiosk (#95, in the Industry Solutions section) and a compelling product overview and customer testimonial in sessions at the Rome Marriot Park Hotel. FusionEnterprise for IBM FileNet P8 leverages the generic FileNet framework and adds powerful document management and collaboration workflow features to support engineering projects of all sizes and complexities...
 

Brentford, UK – May 3, 2010 – Sword CTSpace, a world leading provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications to the construction and engineering industry announced that they will be working with Hochtief to aid the structural design of two new power stations for RWE by providing their Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, FusionLive. As part of the RWE power station renovation programme, the Consult IKS energy planning department at HOCHTIEF has been awarded the contract for the structural design of two coal-fired power stations. RWE is investing more than €4bn in both facilities....
 

World Expro (March 2010) - Effective document management can do more than just save time and money on a new project. Sword CTSpace’s Tim Fleet and Amec’s Jeff Harrison explain how constantly evolving software is helping to unleash creativity in the oil and gas industry.

San Francisco, USA – April 7, 2010 – Sword CTSpace is releasing today FusionLive, the latest addition to the Fusion family of products which provide a unique combination of on premise and cloud based content management solutions to the engineering and construction industries.

Brentford, UK - March 18, 2010 - Sword CTSpace, global provider of project document control and collaboration solutions for the design, engineering and construction of capital-intensive projects, today announced that they will be working with EDF Polska on all their sites in Poland.

Brentford, UK - February 1, 2010 - Sword CTSpace, a global provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications for the construction and engineering industry, announced today that they will be working with STRABAG on the project “Tanzende Türme” (dancing towers) in Hamburg, Germany.

Brentford, UK – January 22, 2010 – Sword CTSpace, a global provider of document management and collaboration workflow applications for the construction and engineering industry, interviewed representatives from some of the world’s leading Hydropower companies (SNC Lavalin, EDF, ABB, Atkins Ltd., etc.) at the HYDRO 2009 event in Lyon, France on October 28, 2009.

The consensus opinion from these representatives was that though hydropower has shortcomings in the cost and length of its projects, the industry expects to gain the most from the extraordinary rise in demand for “green” energy sources as the safest and most proven form of renewable energy. Many stressed that the primary challenge for the industry is the necessity to strengthen the lines of communication on its projects in order to reduce project cost and length, thereby making its projects more attractive to investors.
(Videos of these interviews can be accessed at http://www.youtube.com/swordctspace#p/c/C629CF8FB0B89654)

Coteba, the engineering and construction group selects SwordCTSpace to facilitate project management and collaboration on the ‘Les Halles’ project in the centre of Paris.

Vinci construction is again with SwordCTSpace on the management of documents and work collaboration on their latest project; the new ‘Yacht club de Monaco’ conceived by the architects Norman Foster (England) and Alexandre Giraldi (Monaco). SwordCTSpace will implement their internet hosted, Saas solution for the project.

SwordCTSpace, global provider of project document control and collaboration solutions for the design, engineering and construction of capital-intensive projects, today announced that DWI Hamburg selected its solutions to manage the refurbishment and rehabilitation of the of the historical Hamburg Post Office Headquarters “Oberpostdirektion”.

GCC is calling upon SwordCTSpace to help optimise document management and work collaboration on the construction of the new Police barracks for the "Gendarmerie Nationale" in Lyon (France). The project will be run on as a public-private partnership and SwordCTSpace will be implementing their Saas based solution.

BUILDONLINE, ALWAYS ON TOP OF THINGS!
Increasing costs pressure and more and more complex construction projects necessitate tighter and more transparent management of the construction sites. The answer to it is BuildOnline - a concept developed by STRABAG SE to optimise information management in companies. The project aimed at constructing a new power plant MPP3 has been developed with the use of this tool as the 300th on the list.

This acquisition is expected to bring a new dimension to CTSpace who will benefit greatly from Sword Group's established international presence and proven experience of providing high added-value technology solutions to a world-wide customer base.

Building for success

STRABAG, one of the leading international providers of construction services, has extended its use of CTSpace’s business process management and collaboration solutions. This will help STRABAG manage the development, design, construction and maintenance of its worldwide construction projects.

BuildOnline may be slightly smaller than IBM, but it has adopted its strategy of taking over document management firms . Last month the UK outfit, which provides collaboration software for project teams , merged with US rival Citadon .