Over sixty major energy companies worldwide have used 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...

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

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

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.

AMEC Natural Resources exchanges documents and data continually with customers, each of whom may use very different structures, processes and systems. A typical AMEC Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) project manages as many as 100,000 documents and may result in over 2.5 million single document transactions. If each of these transactions were to take 10 minutes this process could consume around 400,000 person-hours.

"The potential of locked-in files" - Effective document management can do more than just save time and money on a new project. Amec’s Jeff Harrison explains how constantly evolving software is helping to unleash creativity in the oil and gas industry.

Aspire Defence is working with the Ministry of Defence to provide 18,000 Army and civilian personnel with a modern living and working environment over the next 35 years. They selected CTSpace's collaboration technology to manage the immense volume of design documentation and correspondence in a timely and accurate way, reducing costs and minimising errors and delays. CTSpace was selected for its ease of use, flexible file structure and effective storage and retrieval.

Centrica have committed to investing more than £750 million in wind powered generation over the next few years. This will help to meet government targets to tackle climate change by reducing carbon emissions. All the power generated will be supplied to their energy and home services provider, British Gas. CTSpace technology will streamline the way in which Centrica Engineers and Project Managers handle key information and communicate it to their supply chain throughout the project lifecycle.

Investment plans for the water industry as a whole are set on a five-year cycle. The latest, known as Asset Management Plan 4 (AMP4) sets the investment plan and efficiency targets for water companies from 2005 to 2010. Together with Balfour Beatty Utilities Limited, Barhale Construction PLC, Biwater Treatment Limited, Black & Veatch Limited, Carl Bro Group Limited and Skanska Aker Kvaerner, Anglian Water have formed the @one Alliance. The Alliance will deliver a large capital investment programme, covering approximately £750 million out of the total £1.4bn AMP4 programme. This programme of work was agreed by Anglian Water, with the water industry regulator OFWAT in 2004, during the regulatory price review process

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.

"Optimum Document Management" - With hydrocarbon extraction becoming more technically complex, document management is imperative in ensuring efficient, safe operations. Tim Fleet, CTSpace, and Yuri Klochko, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, reveal how new platforms can optimise workflow, boost productivity and facilitate smooth, effective collaboration. Read the Oil&Gas Agenda press article...

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.

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.

CTSpace drives London Underground’s Information Management Strategy forward.

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.

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.

"Tame the paper tiger" - Today’s oil and gas projects often involve multiple partners and thousands of pages of documentation. Clyde Smith of Mustang tells World Expro how enterprise-wide document management systems can optimise workflow, cut costs and act as the glue that holds a rapidly expanding company together...

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.

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.

"Documents that bridge the gap". CTSpace was featured in World Expro Magazine’s September 2010 Issue. The leader in upstream analysis covers the global leader in meeting the content management requirements of the top upstream companies. The article details the increased importance of document management systems with full engineering functionality as government oversight of the upstream industry strengthens internationally; addresses how CTSpace in particular stands as the surest response to increased requirements, with the depth, quality, and variety of its solutions; and provides a case study of the Moroccan oil refining company SAMIR using CTSpace to manage documents and workflows as it expanded and retooled its operations.

Strabag is the 7th largest European general contractor, with €12.8bn revenues in 2010. They are the lead contractor on the €100m construction of ‘Highlight Business Towers’ in Munich, Germany, designed by the internationally renowned architects Murphy / Jahn. The international project team has identified numerous benefits from adopting CTSpace’s on-demand collaboration solutions.

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.

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.