Collaborative Structures Selected as Project Collaboration Host for Construction of New Data Center At Harvard University.Business Editors DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 2000 FirstLine(TM)-Managed Higher Education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. Projects Now Exceed Half a Billion Dollars Visit Collaborative Structures at Booth #115 Collaborative Structures, Inc., the leading host for project communication in the real estate and construction industries, today announced it has been selected to provide web-enabled project collaboration for the construction of a new Data Center at Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. through FirstLine, its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. . The addition of the Harvard University contract brings the total amount of FirstLine-managed construction projects in the higher education industry to more than a half billion dollars. Collaborative Structures made the announcement at SCUP-35, the Society for College and University Planning's 35th Annual International Conference and Expo, where the company is demonstrating its latest version of FirstLine. SCUP-35 is being held in Denver at the Adam's Mark Adam's Mark is a chain of five upscale hotels in the United States. The chain was founded in the early 1970s by Fred Kummer and the chain is currently owned by HBE, Inc., which was also founded by Kummer. Hotel from July 15-19, and is expected to attract more than 1,000 attendees from all types of colleges, universities, and related organizations. FirstLine is a secure web-based application See Web application. that enables project construction teams to communicate and transact business, 24 hours a day, regardless of where they are located. Through FirstLine, team members can easily create, exchange, comment on, and store all project documents. This maximizes the effectiveness and efficiency of project-wide communication and creates a standard for accountability for all team members. "There are a number of key factors which make online communication attractive to the education market," stated John D. Macomber John D. Macomber (born January 13, 1928) in Rochester, New York is the principal of JDM Investment Group and was the President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States from 1989 to 1992. He was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Co. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and founder of Collaborative Structures. "The saving of time, money, paperwork and aggravation in managing large-scale construction projects is particularly important in an academic environment. Realizing this, Collaborative Structures is focused to provide the most efficient path to managing schools' and universities' large-scale construction." Examples of FirstLine-managed projects include: -- Harvard University Data Center -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, Media Lab expansion (see enclosed press release) -- Northeastern University Northeastern University, at Boston, Mass.; coeducational; founded 1898 as a program within the Boston YMCA, inc. 1916, university status 1922, fully independent of the YMCA 1948. Parking Garage, Residence Hall, and Health and Science Center -- Duke University West-Edens Link Residence Hall extension -- Dartmouth College Fairchild Science Center renovation/addition -- Vanderbilt University Renovation and addition to Jacob's Hall, the school's engineering building. -- University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at Irvine Parking Garage -- Stanford University Escondido Village dormitory -- California Polytechnic Institute Parking Garage "I would really never want to do another project without Collaborative Structures' FirstLine," stated Catherine Dunklau, Facility Planning at CalPoly. "Posting RFRs and managing papers has been a dream because I'm not afraid of losing anything. The customer service and the upgrades that Collaborative Structures has provided in the last year have been wonderful as well." Collaborative Structures provides web-based project communication hosting that facilitates the exchange and management of information for project management teams in the real estate and construction industries. FirstLine, its initial product offering, has set the industry standard for helping teams enhance productivity and achieve significant cost-savings through increased access, organization and exchange of information. Founded in 1996 by construction industry leaders, Collaborative Structures is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. |
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