August 20, 2009 - FreightTrain® Brings Home the Gold at the 2009 Constructech Vision Awards in Chicago
Chicago, Ill. – Aug. 20, 2009 – The Chicago heat did not keep away some of the country’s biggest names in construction and technology, when Constructech magazine hosted the 4th annual Technology Day and the 10th Annual Vision Awards at the Crowne Plaza O’Hare hotel. Also in attendance were architectural and engineering firms, corporate owners, facility management companies, government agencies, and land developers who shared a combined interest in the latest innovations that technology is bringing to the construction site. By evening, the setting evolved from town hall forum to a formal banquet hall, where the Vision Awards ceremony honored companies involved in commercial, heavy construction and residential as well as their technology enablers, the businesses who have provided the tools to reach outstanding goals.
McCarthy Building Companies Inc. was in attendance, nominated for their distinguished results at Kaiser Permanente Hospital at Downey, with FreightTrain online construction management software as their enabling technology. The project was the first ever to use FreightTrain technology from start to finish and was completed in 2008, a phenomenal 106 days ahead of schedule and more than $47million below budget. For Builder/GC Commercial Construction projects in the +$500 million budget range, the top category for project scope, McCarthy secured a Gold trophy and FreightTrain triumphantly joined them on the stage.
“We are proud to have earned a Gold Medal for our first Construction Vision Award,” said Bill Clemenson, president of Healthcare Technical Services and creator of FreightTrain. “The Internet is changing and improving how we build buildings. Inspections, architectural punches, and the entire Construction QC process, can now be hosted on the internet, where it can be monitored, measured and managed by the entire project team. This is what FreightTrain does.”
For more information on how to get on track with FreightTrain contact Alexandra Conn aconn@consulthts.com or visit our website www.freighttrain.com
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Chicago, Ill. – Aug. 20, 2009 – The Chicago heat did not keep away some of the country’s biggest names in construction and technology, when Constructech magazine hosted the 4th annual Technology Day and the 10th Annual Vision Awards at the Crowne Plaza O’Hare hotel. Also in attendance were architectural and engineering firms, corporate owners, facility management companies, government agencies, and land developers who shared a combined interest in the latest innovations that technology is bringing to the construction site. By evening, the setting evolved from town hall forum to a formal banquet hall, where the Vision Awards ceremony honored companies involved in commercial, heavy construction and residential as well as their technology enablers, the businesses who have provided the tools to reach outstanding goals.
McCarthy Building Companies Inc. was in attendance, nominated for their distinguished results at Kaiser Permanente Hospital at Downey, with FreightTrain online construction management software as their enabling technology. The project was the first ever to use FreightTrain technology from start to finish and was completed in 2008, a phenomenal 106 days ahead of schedule and more than $47million below budget. For Builder/GC Commercial Construction projects in the +$500 million budget range, the top category for project scope, McCarthy secured a Gold trophy and FreightTrain triumphantly joined them on the stage.
“We are proud to have earned a Gold Medal for our first Construction Vision Award,” said Bill Clemenson, president of Healthcare Technical Services and creator of FreightTrain. “The Internet is changing and improving how we build buildings. Inspections, architectural punches, and the entire Construction QC process, can now be hosted on the internet, where it can be monitored, measured and managed by the entire project team. This is what FreightTrain does.”
For more information on how to get on track with FreightTrain contact Alexandra Conn aconn@consulthts.com or visit our website www.freighttrain.com
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