2007 BITS Contest Winners

The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) announced the 2007 winners of the Best Information Technology Solutions (BITS) Contest, a competition featuring the newest technology-driven business applications for contractors across America. The award winners, chosen at AGC’s 88th Annual Convention, presented cutting-edge solutions that met their growing information technology needs.

Since its beginning in 2002, the B.I.T.S Contest has evolved into an invaluable resource for helping contractors maximize the benefits of software already on the market as well as showcasing new software developed for contractors.

"These industry-leaders have incorporated the best in creative and innovative technology solutions to common business problems," said AGC CEO Stephen E. Sandherr.

2007 Winners:

• First Place— Holder Construction Company, Atlanta, GA, Building Information Modeling (BIM) entry
  How can you build a building downtown, on a restricted, urban site with an owner, design team and contractor that have worked together before — only faster, better and cheaper, with more teamwork? Use Building Information Modeling (BIM) to enhance teamwork, reduce change orders, field conflicts and risk in constructing a project on a downtown site under a CM–At–Risk Project approach, with a GMP and an accelerated schedule. Take a leadership position to implement technology–enabled–collaboration on a real project and measure results. Use technology without it getting in the way. They were awarded roundtrip airfare for two to AGC?s 2008 Annual Convention in Las Vegas, NV.
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• Second Place— G. W. Mitchell & Sons, Inc., San Antonio, TX, wireless office entry
  The construction wireless office is a complilation of technology devices and services used together to allow a remote site (job trailer) to communicate over the local high speed cell phone network.
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• Third Place— Satterfield & Pontikes Construction, Inc., Houston, TX, Building Information Modeling (BIM) entry
  Satterfield and Pontikes Construction, Inc. (S&P) decided to develop a project utilizing all BIM techniques. Gathering a team of innovative technology users and a forward–thinking architect, S&P set forth to see if a "virtual" project was practical, possible and, more importantly, profitable.
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Other Contestants:

• Adolfson & Peterson Construction
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• The Pike Company
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• The Weitz Company
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Chuck Greco of Linbeck Group, Rick Pate of Pate Landscape, and Richard Rodriguez of McGraw–Hill Construction, served as judges for the presentations.

2005 BITS Contest Winners

2005 Winners:

• First Place— Clancy & Theys, Raleigh, N.C., for Field2Base
  Field2Base is a new wireless technology tool that enabled Clancy & Theys’ field-based superintendent to instantly convey project information to relevant parties via hand–drawn sketches, annotated digital photos, annotated CAD files, automated paper forms or combinations thereof, which saved the company time and increased the quality of communication between the design team and the field superintendent. They were awarded roundtrip airfare for two to AGC’s 2006 Annual Convention in New Orleans, La., and cajun dining for two.
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• Second Place— Walsh Construction Company, Portland, Ore., for Risk Management System
  The Risk Management System was designed to help ensure that the burden of liability is upheld by those responsible, not assumed by the organization contracting the work.
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• Third Place— Ainsworth-Benning Construction, Inc., Spearfish, S.D. for Firesafe
  Firesafe is the upgraded version of HRSIplus, the 2004 Best Information Technology Solution and is a Web–based system allowing Ainsworth–Benning to share HR and safety information with all of their project managers and superintendents.
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Other Videos:

• Introduction— Gary Newell, Collins & Company
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• BITS Winners— Gary Newell, Collins & Company
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Gary Newell, Chairman of the Electronic Information Systems Committee hosted the event and Rick Andritsch, Vice President of Business Development, Voss Jorgensen Schueler Company, Paul Hoffman, Managing Member, Hoffman Construction, and Mike Dunham, Executive Vice President of the Georgia Branch of AGC, served as judges for the presentations.

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