MIT Selects Collaborative Structures' FirstLine as the Project Communication Host for Media Lab Expansion -- $100M Building Project.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2000 Contract Underscores Collaborative Structures as the Leader for 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. Market Collaborative Structures, Inc., the leading host for project communication in the real estate and construction industries, was today awarded the contract for project communication hosting for the MIT Media Lab This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. expansion. Collaborative Structures' 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. , FirstLine, is a secure, high performance Internet application where every authorized member of the construction supply chain can communicate and transact business. The MIT Media Lab is widely regarded as the home of the most wired people in the world. The planning and construction of the Okawa Center for Future Children - the Media Lab's new home - was to be executed in a cutting-edge, collaborative fashion. The new complex will roughly double the size of the Lab's current space. A seven-story building, which will be approximately 100,000 net square feet of laboratory, office, and meeting space, will be adjacent and connected to the current Media Laboratory structure on MIT's East Campus. The new building is scheduled for completion in 2003. "We did a careful review of all of our options, and Collaborative Structures was the clear winner," stated Susan Personette, project manager for MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology . "We have a fast moving project with team members from all over the world. Our architect, Fumihiko Maki Fumihiko Maki (槇文彦, Maki Fumihiko) (born Tokyo, September 6, 1928) is a Japanese architect. After studying at the University of Tokyo he moved to the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and then to Harvard Graduate School of Design. from Japan, is particularly concerned about craftsmanship and team communication. The Media Lab is highly sophisticated and demanding, and they are concerned about the most effective use of information technology. For us, that was clearly Collaborative Structures. No other company offered this winning combination of intuitive use, powerful linking of documents, and extensive people support for our global team." "We're delighted to be working with a team with the demands and technical sophistication so·phis·ti·cate v. so·phis·ti·cat·ed, so·phis·ti·cat·ing, so·phis·ti·cates v.tr. 1. To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly. 2. of the MIT Media Lab," said 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. of Collaborative Structures. "Our focus has always been on the business and people needs of the team, and then on leveraging the technology. This contract affirms our approach to serving Owners on large, complex projects." The original outline of the Media Laboratory was formed in 1980 by Professor Nicholas Negroponte Nicholas Negroponte (born 1943) is an architect and computer scientist best known as the founder and Chairman Emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab. He is the younger brother of John Negroponte, current United States Deputy Secretary of State. and former MIT President Jerome Wiesner Jerome Wiesner (Jerome Bert Wiesner) (May 30, 1915 – October 21, 1994) was an educator, a science advisor to U.S. Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, an advocate for arms control, and a critic of anti-ballistic-missile defense systems. , growing out of the work of MIT's Architecture Machine Group, and building on the seminal work A seminal work is a work from which other works grow. The term usually refers to an intellectual or artistic achievement whose ideas and techniques have been adopted or responded to in later works by other people, either in the same field or in the general culture. of faculty members in a range of other disciplines (from cognition and learning to electronic music and holography). It officially opened its doors for business in the Wiesner Building, designed by I.M. Pei, in 1985. In its first decade, much of the Laboratory's activity centered around abstracting electronic content from its traditional physical representations, helping create now-familiar areas such as digital video and multimedia. Recent Lab accomplishments have included advancements in wearable computing, toys to think with, perceptual audio models, quantum computing, and more. The success of this agenda is now leading to a growing focus on how bits meet atoms: how electronic information overlaps with the everyday physical world. The Laboratory pioneered collaboration between academia and industry, and provides a unique environment to explore basic research and applications, without regard to traditional divisions among disciplines. The Laboratory currently has approximately 170 sponsors, including such entities as the US Federal Government, The National Science Foundation, Sun Microsystems, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Telekom Berkom GMBH, Viacom International and Johnson & Johnson. 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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