Infrasoft's Arenium Chosen by UK's Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council to Demonstrate Technology Innovation on $26M South Stockton Link Road Project

Beverly, Massachusetts - February 11, 2002 - Infrasoft Corporation, a global supplier of IT solutions for civil engineering, today announced it received its first order for Arenium? collaborative engineering software and services from Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council (SBC), which is similar to a DOT (Department of Transportation) in the United States. The Stockton-on-Tees Borough is one of the UK's growing industrial regions surrounding two metropolitan areas, Newcastle and Gateshead. Arenium is the only web-enabled product in the marketplace allowing companies to leverage multi-site or multi-company workforces to bring civil projects to market faster. The groundbreaking product's client/server architecture enables dispersed teams of civil engineers to efficiently create, share and access project data via LAN, WAN or the Internet -- from design to final asset.

The Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council is planning to use Arenium collaboration technology on several multi-million dollar projects, including the high profile $26M South Stockton link road project. This civil design project is being highlighted by the council as part of the British government initiative Movement For Innovation (M4i) to demonstrate innovative processes in construction. The Council uses Infrasoft's award-winning MX software products for civil engineering applications in road design and renewal.

"Arenium is exactly the solution that we have looking for," states Richard McGuckin, an engineer on the Highway design team at Stockton Borough Council. "On a typical project, our team consists of up to ten people including designers, surveyors and contractors, all working on the same design model. To date, we have shared information manually, distributing the data around the collaborators by courier, as drawings, schedules or digitally on CD-ROM. This method has been fraught with difficulties. It is almost impossible to check that all team members are working from the latest versions. Updating everyone simultaneously each time a change is made is an administrative nightmare. In the past, this meant design issues were not resolved in the most efficient way, and that we had less than perfect control of versioning and document history."

The Council cites that Arenium will eliminate these complex administrative issues through real-time sharing of three-dimensional designs by all members of the project team, regardless of location. "Using Arenium, we will be able to reduce design times and get projects completed faster. We also see Arenium as being the environment to control and allow collaboration on other documents used in the wider process of project management, such as MX and AutoCAD drawings, and contract documentation including design specifications, bills of quantities and engineering notes. On the South Stockton link road, we aim to reduce design time by 20 percent," concludes McGuckin.

"Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council is the ideal Arenium customer," states Rick Fiery, president and CEO of Infrasoft Corporation. "Our market research pointed definitively to the fact that civil engineering firms are struggling with the laborious and inaccurate process of sharing and manually updating civil designs. Arenium makes new and updated design data immediately available to the project team, in a controlled manner, during the entire span of the project. Arenium's collaborative engineering capabilities will enable SBC managers to match available staff and their specialized skill sets to each phase of a project. Key personnel can work together whether they are located in the same building, at different sites, or even geographically remote from the project. It is easy to visualize the benefits? from a drastically shortened project development cycle to improved quality and productivity?leading to a much improved bottom line for the client."

About Infrasoft Corporation 

Infrasoft is a global supplier of IT solutions for the civil engineering marketplace. The company develops award-winning software for government and consulting engineers involved in road design and renewal, site development, and rail engineering. Arenium, a breakthrough Collaborative Engineering solution, is the only web-enabled product in the marketplace allowing companies to leverage multi-site workforces to efficiently create, share and access project data via LAN, WAN or the Internet ? from design to final asset. Infrasoft technology runs within the three most popular environments - Windows, AutoCAD and MicroStation. Infrasoft distributes its products in more than 60 countries via a global network of distribution partners. The company has offices in the United States, UK, The Netherlands, India and Australia. For more information, Infrasoft can be reached at 1-877-INFRASOFT 

www.infrasoft-civil.com

 

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