A major redevelopment of the TEVA UK Eastbourne pharmaceutical packaging site will use the-project.co.uk document control system to manage the build. The redevelopment includes several phases of work over a three year period including the construction and fit out of a new three storey packaging hall and laboratory building; construction of a new two storey building to provide restaurant and office facilities. In addition the existing laboratory and packaging facilities will be improved and...

The £18 million road linking Kirkintilloch to the M80 motorway in East Dunbartonshire will be built using the-project.co.uk extranet solution to exchange project information between all the parties involved with the development.

The road will relieve congestion in Kirkintilloch by diverting traffic away from the town centre, while also opening the town up to opportunities as it becomes more accessible to new businesses wanting to set up in the area. It is hoped that around 1,000 new...

The-project.co.uk collaboration service is being used by the University of Bedfordshire on phase 1b of the multi-million pound redevelopment of the university buildings which will include the building of a new Campus Centre, right in the heart of the Luton campus. This central building will act as a base for a whole range of student services, which will be easily accessible to all of our students. This huge £70 million modernisation will take place over a number of years, and phase one is...

Sarcophagus is supplying the “Central Project Information Hub” for Tesco’s Project Surge. The aim of the project, valued at around £7 million, is to reduce energy consumption by 10% across all store types. The system will be used to provide a flow of accurate information will allow the team to match actual energy usage against the energy profile for the site. Elite will then carry out adjustments, remotely or by visiting site to rectify the excess energy use or wastage.

Sarcophagus Ltd where selected to supply their extranet service the-project.co.uk for the construction of the Scottish Centre for Regenerative Medicine (SCRM). The £54 million project will provide a world class centre for research into medical therapies for diseases of the blood, bone, brain and liver. This includes research into motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis and liver cirrhosis. This will be the signature building of the Edinburgh BioQuarter.

Source: Sarcophagus

Sarcophagus would like to welcome our latest new client HGP Architects to the-project.
HGP Architects, founded in 1968, has a proven track record for innovative design coupled with a fast and considered response to their clients' needs, in the pursuit of value-added buildings.

“By using the-project.co.uk we are able to collaborate effectively and efficiently with all members of our team. It will allow us to speed up the design process, reduce...

Source: NCCTP

In late 2005, the NCCTP commissioned an independent survey of users of its members’ collaboration systems – or ‘project extranets’. The research was undertaken by Benchmark Research, a market research agency with extensive experience in both IT and construction-related markets in the UK.

During April and May 2006, Benchmark conducted 272 telephone interviews with individual users of UK solutions from 4Projects, Aconex, Asite, BIW...

Source: Sarcophagus

I read with interest the article on e-tendering and the apparent slow uptake (Why is the pen still mightier? QS News, 30 June). I agree whole heartedly that email or CD is not the way to go when considering e-tendering and this may be why so few people have tried it. However, as providers of eTenderer.com, an online procurement package, we are experiencing good take up of the system and have developed our system to comply with the RICS guidelines.

In...

Source: Sarcophagus

eTenderer the successful online procurement solution from Sarcophagus Ltd. has been updated to be the first product of its type to comply with the RICS e-tendering guidelines. Version 2.0 will be launched on the 10th May to a discreet audience of selected clients and will be publicly launched at the ITCF (IT Construction Forum) event on the 24th May.

eTenderer allows each stage of the tendering process, from pre-qualification to tender award to be...

Source: Sarcophagus

Sarcophagus Ltd, the Online Construction Collaboration provider launched their Key Performance Indicator module for www.the-project.co.uk at the London IT in Construction event on the 18th May.

The module which was developed in conjunction with ASDA is integrated into their project collaboration portal called www.the-project.co.uk. It is designed to provide project performance feedback via selected members of the project team across a series of...

Source: Computer Active (issue 182)

Despite the obvious importance of doing so, backing up emails is actually a rather tricky thing to do. Most programs keep emails hidden away in obscure folders and, even if you are able to locate these folders, it is notoriously difficult to retrieve individual messages.

MsgSave has the ability to save individual messages or groups of messages to the hard disk, allowing you to archive them to CD. Each message is saved as a .msg file...

Source: WindowsXP Made Easy

Why run the risk of losing all of your saved messages when disaster strikes? Why don’t you take few minutes to make a back-up of your email for added security?
For many PC users, the Internet has become an invaluable tool in the home office. Indeed, the facility to link a PC up with an incalculably huge network of computers that spans the entire globe has travelled beyond the realms of hyperbole and into the remit of day-to-day necessity.
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