Oracle Honours Customer Innovation with Oracle Aconex Connect Awards

Oracle has announced the winners of the Oracle Aconex Connect Awards in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region. Now in its third year, the global awards honour customers worldwide for innovation in delivering significant construction and engineering projects efficiently and effectively.

As the industry matures, so does customer technology adoption and optimisation. These customers, who have demonstrated exceptional results using Oracle Aconex products, are at the forefront of embracing digital transformation to improve outcomes for all project participants. They typically see this positive change through greater process efficiency, project-wide visibility, and new insights helping to drive more informed business decisions and continuous improvement. 

“The winners of the Oracle Aconex Connect Awards continue to demonstrate the powerful combination of forward-looking technology and strategic vision,” said Leigh Jasper, Vice President, Aconex Strategy and Operations, Oracle Construction and Engineering. “Through strong leadership coupled with enterprise planning, organisations can significantly improve processes in key areas such as field performance and project controls, safety and quality. Ultimately, this translates to what everyone in the industry wants to do – improve operability and meet growth objectives.”

“Through the implementation of Aconex, Turner & Townsend has been recognised as the market leader in realising benefits and best practices of technology standardisation on projects,” said Zheng Choo, Principal Consultant of Technology, Turner & Townsend.

Select results from the 2018 EMEA Connect Awards winners:

• CODAH utilised BIM and Oracle Aconex to cut RFI cycles in half and reduce large file exchange time to just 2-3 minutes, a 10th of the time it used to take on the Digital City and Normandy Management School project.

• Faithful + Gould achieved 1.5x faster data analysis on project schedule performance for their client, using Oracle Aconex and Oracle’s Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management in addition to their own Dynamic Insight solution. Additionally, they reduced report creation by 99 percent, from 3-5 days, to just a few minutes, providing up-to-date project information when needed and enabling better project decisions.

• Horizon used Oracle Aconex to achieve a 25 percent improvement in operational efficiency through communication management enhancements across the project.

• Pingat implemented Aconex Connected BIM. They cut model distribution time by 75 percent and reduced both RFIs and scope changes by 20 percent by being able to share the models across the team including with the client.

• Turner & Townsend Company implemented Aconex for their client and cut model review cycles by 92 percent, taking just 3 hours on average, on their BIM project. For another client, they uncovered between £80 and £120M in potential revenue from vacant space by using Aconex as a common data environment in a property management implementation.

Aconex customers were nominated for the Oracle Aconex Connect Awards in three categories: 

• Hero Award – championing change in projects to minimise risk and save costs
• Project Award – collaborating effectively across project teams for successful delivery
• Enterprise Award – standardising best project practices across enterprise portfolios

Below is a full list of 2018 Oracle Aconex Connect Awards winners in the Middle East:

• AECOM GLOBAL – Hero Award to Estman Datu Mamadra for Excellence in Project Set Up.
• ALYSJ JV – Aktor – L&T – Yapi Merkezi – STFA – Al Jaber – Project Award to Gold Line Metro – Qatar for Excellence in Collaboration on a Megaproject.
• SsangYong- Besix JV – Project Award to The Royal Atlantis Resort and Residences for Excellence in Project Quality and Hero Award to Erin O’Herlihy for Excellence in Innovative Configuration.
• Faithful + Gould – Company Award to Excellence in Cross Project Ecosystem Integration and Hero Award to Alejandro Lopez for Excellence in Implementation – Open Systems Integration.
• Manateq – Company Award for Excellence in Process Efficiency to Improve Schedule Adherence.
• National Authority for Tunnels – Company Award for Excellence in Technology Leadership by a Government Entity.

Global honorees of the 2018 Oracle Aconex Connect Awards include: Burns & McDonnell, China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group Co. LTD and Lendlease, among others.