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construction project By Erik Johansson ] that really counts in the construction industry, Another new process area Skanska supports control over direct procurement spending is especially during these challenging times,” with ENOVIA is a collaboration interface where achieved thanks to this approach. Minimizing management with ENOVIA added Hannu. customers can electronically authorize waste by more accurately planning material construction project invoicing by reviewing purchases also supports Skanska’s objective Skanska’s operations in cover construction services, residential Skanska’s ENOVIA solution is comprised of a Progress during fall 2009 project progress directly in ENOVIA. This to be the number one green construction and and commercial project development and public-private partnerships. project-hub and a cost-forecasting process “It has been a positive surprise for us that we speeds up cash flow, decreases capital used project development company in the world. Marketplace challenges require the construction industry to be more integrated into it. “With ENOVIA, we are able have been able to expand the use of the PLM and improves transparency towards customers innovative and competitive with respect to time, predictability and cost. to provide better transparency, which leads to platform to so many various areas,” said by taking customer dialogue to a new level. “With these investments, Skanska will definitely improved decision making and project control,” Hannu. “During the fall of 2009, we digitized come out from the global economy’s recent n a sector where sharing information is In February 2008, Technia signed an agreement said Hannu Hakkarainen. several of our old workflows and streamlined Future downturn as a company that creates more critical, the use of «siloed» IT solutions in with Skanska to implement ENOVIA in the some key business processes. In the area of In the future Skanska plans to link more PLM value for its customers. We still have the same Ithe construction industry gave rise to company. As a result, Technia and Skanska Fast implementation and risk management and reliable production functionalities with BIM information in ENOVIA V6. innovative spirit and drive that Rudolf Fredrik situations where information created in one deployed next-generation project support immediate benefits we have created some new types of cross “This will allow us to gain even more efficiency Berg had more than 100 years ago when business function could not be used by another. for the construction industry. The ability to In just four months, Skanska was able to go live functional digitized processes that are supported and to continue on the selected to “simplify he established Skanska by pulling together In order to increase transparency and improve collaborate throughout the entire Skanska with document management functionalities. with the ENOVIA platform.” The reliable production and modernize,” commented Hannu. “The innovations from other industries and creating decision making and project control, Skanska value chain from customer, design partners, Overall implementation with project hub and process is a new process that includes a lot of long-term objective is to fully utilize BIM- business out of that,” concluded Hannu ­­­­­ •) Finland wanted to support its construction site contractors all the way to suppliers helps renewed cost-forecasting took a little more interaction and pro-active collaboration with information in our key processes and to continue stakeholders with business-role based access Skanska shorten lead times and enforce best than a year. Already Skanska has gained subcontractors. Previously a manual process, collaborating with our customers, design partners, For more information: to project, document and approval information. practices, leading to more industrialized several benefits. “Transparency of product the risk management process has now been suppliers and subcontractors. This, however, www.skanska.com “Our strategy is to simplify and modernize business processes. “With ENOVIA, information information has improved dramatically. By having streamlined with the help of ENOVIA. “With requires further re-thinking and harmonization [email protected] our business processes, information and tools,” is always updated,” declared Hannu. a better grasp of document control and project these processes we improve production of some of our core processes, which is high said Hannu Hakkarainen, Director of Enterprise “About 1200 users are impacted by the related information we improved efficiency and reliability and obtain a better view of each on the corporate agenda as well.” One of the More about Technia Architecture in Skanska IT Nordic. solution.” have more satisfied customers,” said Hannu. first steps toward change was to establish the project,” said Hannu. Technia is one of the leading suppliers of “The first indication of customers seeing Skanska Global BIM Competency Center. Product Lifecycle Management Solutions benefits is illustrated by an increase in the use for creating and managing product infor- The Gårda project in , Sweden of building information during the construction “In 2010 and 2011 we plan to better integrate mation throughout the product’s lifecycle. Snöflingan (Snowflake) in Stockholm, Sweden phase (BIM). Sharing this information gives our the procurement process in the design, planning Technia, with more than 110 employees, customers better visibility into the construction and forecasting processes that are already is a strategic partner of more than 200 companies. It has offices in Stockholm, process.” supported by ENOVIA V6,” described Hannu. Gothenburg, Helsinki and Oslo. Technia’s “Integrating these processes is a serious boost customers include: , Elcoteq, There have been immediate benefits in more to efficiency. Construction companies that ESAB, Danaher Motion, GE Healthcare, traditional areas of construction project mana- invest in developing cross functional process Marioff, Metso Paper, Mölnlycke Health gement as well. The amount of “loss making support are really providing added value to their Care, , Perkin Elmer LifeSciences, projects” have decreased dramatically during customers when the upwards scalability is Proximion, , Sectra Mamea, and first months after go-live. “That is something expected.” More fact-based visibility and Sony Ericsson.

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