Aconex catches train contract

Peter Dinham
Wednesday, 22 June 2011 18:12

IT Industry - Deals

Melbourne-based, global online collaboration solutions provider, Aconex, has won a contract to service Victoria's multi-million dollar regional rail link project, with its web-based system to be used to manage communication and documentation across the project.
Aconex general manager Australia, Steve Brant said the reason for implementing a single collaboration and document control system on the rail project is to 'mitigate potential risks to project objectives caused through inadequate information management process.'

Brant said this includes the 'inability to ensure that all information provided is accurate and authoritative; time wasted following up on documents issued for review and approval; fragmentation of information across multiple systems; and inefficient use of project resources to manage and track information.'

'On complex projects such as this, participants need a comprehensive information record'”and a single source of truth'”to prevent disputes. By providing a neutral collaboration platform that maintains an audit trail of every transaction, Aconex will support efficiency, transparency and accountability on the project.'

The Victorian Government's regional rail link is a major new rail line that the government says will provide capacity for enough extra trains for thousands more passengers across the Melbourne and country rail networks in the peak period. It will separate regional trains from metropolitan trains, for the first time giving Geelong, Bendigo and Ballarat trains their own dedicated tracks through the suburban system from Sunshine to Southern Cross Station, increasing capacity and reliability.

Brant said that during the project's design and construction phases, it's anticipated that hundreds of thousands of drawings, documents and correspondence items will be generated and exchanged between stakeholders, with Aconex enabling the Regional Rail Link Authority and its contractors to access, distribute, track and archive their information in real time, using one central system.