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Cadweb Helps Defense Estates to Victory
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May 2006
At this year’s Building awards Defence Estates won the award for ‘Integrated Supply Chain of the Year’ for their management of the housing refurbishment project on behalf of USAF. Cadweb was cited as being a major contributor to the success of the project which was finished in half the time with the expected cost reduced significantly.
In their comments to explain why they were so impressed with the performance of Defence Estates to award them the prize the judges said;
“In this category, the crack team that emerged victorious was the one that applied military precision and masterminded impeccable tactics to conquer some extremely challenging projects.
The Ministry of Defence's procurement agency won this reward in recognition of the military precision with which it tackled a seven-year, £150m project to refurbish about 1400 UK homes for the United States Airforce's personnel and their families, and another to do up 606 houses at RAF Lakenheath. The scale of the task was ideal for training the industry's standard scratch team into a unit of crack professionals. This was achieved with the help of Mansell, which marshalled the consultants and suppliers with such efficiency that the USAF's houses were finished in half the time and slashed the expected costs. The team's tactics included using a procurement co-ordinator for the first time ever and using the Cadweb project management system for the first time on a MoD job.”
“We are very pleased to have been involved with this large project. We have worked very closely with Mansells and DE to manage the information flows which has obviously made a material difference to the financial outcome and programmed completion for the client. This project is a good illustration of the magnitude of the improvement that Cadweb can bring to the financial performance of a project. ” Said Francis Newman Director of Cadweb
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For further information please contact Francis Newman on 0208 964 5040.
Notes to Editors
- Founded in 1995 Cadweb is the longest and oldest, established project extranet provider in the UK. Cadweb is now recognized as the de facto market leader in it's field with a long and growing list of blue-chip clients. Project Extranets provide an internet based central searchable repository for project information whereby project data can be stored and retrieved by all members of a construction project.
- Cadweb.net provides an internet based, central, highly searchable repository for all project information, whereby project data can be stored and retrieved by all members of a construction project.
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