Over sixty major energy companies worldwide have used Sword 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 USD in operational costs, are listed below...

Sword CTSpace solutions enable transportation companies to reduce operating costs, improve efficiency and minimize risk ensuring effective communication of key documents across the supply chain. Sword CTSpace is currently involved in Transport projects worth a total value of over $40 billion...

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.

Document control and Collaboration on the construction of 3 turnkey diesel power plants for EDF
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 $1.073 Billion 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.

Document control and collaboration on High-Speed Lines projects, worth over $15 billion - Created in 1997, RFF is responsible for managing and upgrading the French railway network. As the national network’s owner, RFF manages all existing infrastructure. Moreover, RFF project manages all operations that take place on the rail network. As part of this role, it is responsible for cosy, time controls and quality of projects.

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.

Lakes Entertainment Inc. develops, finances and manages American Indian – owned casinos across the U.S. The company currently has management contracts with five American Indian tribes in California, Oklahoma and Michigan for eight casino sites, and it recently announced plans to develop a company-owned casino resort project in Vicksburg. Mississippi.

Lakes also owns approximately 61 percent of WPT Enterprises Inc. (NASDAQ: WPTE), a separate, publicly held media and entertainment company principally engaged in the development, production and marketing of gaming-themed televised programming, including the World Poker Tour television series, the licensing and sale of branded products and the sale of corporate sponsorships.

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.

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.

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.

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 Sword CTSpace’s on-demand collaboration solutions.

AMEC Paragon is AMEC’s hub for oil and gas operations based in Houston, Texas, providing engineering, materials management, and construction management services to the oil and gas, pipeline, and midstream industries.

Specialities include onshore and offshore production facilities, offshore platforms, onshore and offshore pipelines, floating production systems, and subsea systems.

AMEC Paragon has completed more than 4,000 projects in 30 countries for over 260 clients.

Just 10 miles west of downtown Miami, Florida International University (FIU) is in the middle of a building boom. A dozen or more building projects have been initiated on the 350-acre campus within the last two years.

When Pollyanne Johnson joined the FIU Facilities Management Department as senior project manager, she was surprised to find a lack of a computer-based program management system. And with so much construction underway, she realized the school needed a much better method of keeping track of the myriad projects in order to provide more accurate, timely reporting to the university administration.

URS Corporation, an engineering services company based in San Francisco, is currently overseeing the multi-project renovation of the Richmond International Airport in Virginia. Among the construction projects underway are road improvements, terminal expansion, improvements to runways and aprons, the construction of parking garages, an administration building, concourse expansion and even an environmental wetlands delineation project.

In a recent assignment - a major expansion program at San Francisco International Airport, expected to be concluded by late 2001 - F.E. Jordan employed the Paragon Program Management System to provide construction management for the $400 million program. It
included construction of the $120 million United Airlines concourse boarding area, and construction of the $52 million North Field cargo facility. Another part of the project was a $240 million elevated roadway and bridge ramps that included the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) transit bridge running from the Ground Transportation Center at the International Terminal, across US-101 on the periphery of the airport to the terminus of the BART extension to the airport.

The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has allocated an estimated $2.6 billion to seismically retrofit five Northern California toll bridges, including the Bay Bridge, plus the Vincent-Thomas Bridge that spans the Port of Los Angeles, and the Coronado Bay Bridge in San Diego. Nowhere in the world have bridges as structurally complex as these been seismically reengineered to withstand the structural harm posed by potential earthquakes that are a constant threat to this state.

The Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) moves more than 200,000 people a day on light rail, buses, and vans across a 700-square-mile service area that includes 13 member cities. To accommodate this demand, now and in the future, more than 50 miles of new light rail lines, rail stations, transit and transfer stations are now being constructed as part of an expansion program that DART says is the largest light rail expansion program in North America.

The East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBM UD) operates an extensive water works system that supplies water to approximately 1.3 million residents of Northern California’s Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. With pipelines, filter plants, pumping stations, and reservoirs spread across a 325-squaremile area, EBM UD faces the daily challenge of staying on top of the construction and maintenance responsibilities associated with keeping water flowing to its customers.

Sword CTSpace solutions are currently being used on a large number of projects in the health sector, valued at over £2,34 billion. Sword 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.