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Monday, November 9 - 2009

Nakheel selects BIW to help deliver 1 kilometre high tower

  • United Arab Emirates: Tuesday, October 28 - 2008 at 09:50
  • PRESS RELEASE

Nakheel, Dubai's leading property developer, has selected BIW Technologies (BIW) to deliver Software-as-a-Service applications to support design and construction of Nakheel Tower, part of the Nakheel Harbour & Tower development.

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The Nakheel Tower, which will be over a kilometre high, is at the heart of a 10-year development in the Jebel Ali area of Dubai. BIW, who announced a corporate deal with Nakheel in March 2008, has been working with the project team since early 2007.

The Nakheel Tower will have more than 200 floors and approximately 150 lifts. Inspired by Islamic design and geometry, the development also proposes 3,500 hotel rooms, 950,000 m2 of commercial and retail space, and the world's only inner city harbour.

The project team includes architect Woods Bagot, building services engineer Norman Disney & Young and structural engineer WSP. More than 200 individuals, based round the world, have so far been registered as BIW users. This figure will increase significantly once work on the Tower starts.

Chris O'Donnell, Nakheel's Chief Executive Officer, says:
"Working on such huge and demanding developments requires efficient collaboration among multiple teams and organizations. We selected the BIW system for its ability to manage complex collaboration and reporting requirements at Nakheel and with our project teams."


BIW General Manager, Middle East, Dr Asif Sharif says:
"BIW won this project against stiff competition from other vendors by virtue of its team's experience, the track record of its technology in managing mega-projects, and the scalability of its application and SaaS infrastructure."
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About BIW

BIW Technologies (http://www.biwtech.com) 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. Its clients include United Utilities, Sainsbury's, BAA, Crest Nicholson and the UK Ministry of Defence

for more details please contact:
BIW - Paul Wilkinson, BIW head of corporate communications -
tel: +44(0)1483-712620
mobile +44(0)7788-445920,
BIW - Asif Sharif, BIW general manager, Middle East
tel: +971-50-4245287,
Four Communications -
tel: +971-55-985-3375/77
Nakheel - Gemma Mitchell, PR & Communications Executive,
tel: +971-50-654-7652.

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