Tech Innovator Award winner announced

Quantm is the winner of the 2006 Tech Innovator Award for software that has innovatively applied computing power to civil engineering, in a way that cut project times dramatically.
CADwire.net, the leading information site for the CAD, AEC, GIS, EDA and PLM industries, today announced Quantm the winner of its 2006 Tech Innovator Award. The Quantm system was designed to support road and rail planners through the complex process of corridor selection and alignment alternative analysis, taking into account terrain, geology, geometric criteria, engineering and environmental constraints, community values, and construction costs. 'Our system for route alignment selection addresses the challenges faced by the conventional approach to transportation route planning,' said Len Bettess, manager of Business Development and Engineering in the USA for Quantm.

'By integrating the large amounts of environmental, engineering, cost and community data into a single three-dimensional analysis, Quantm's system allows project teams to explore all reasonable alternatives quantitatively.' Rick Stavanja, vice-president of Cyon Research and editor-in-chief, CADwire.net commented: 'While there were many worthy nominations for the CADwire.net Tech Innovator Award this year, we found that Quantm's software innovatively applies computing power to the world of civil engineering, in a way that cut project times dramatically.

The Quantm system is the first technology tool I have seen that automates the complex, manual, and very human process of choosing, analyzing and selecting routes for new roads.' Quantm, a Trimble company, was founded in 2000 to specifically develop a route-alignment-selection application.

Over the past five years it has been successfully applied on more than 40 road and rail projects across the USA, along with many others in Canada, France, Spain, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Indonesia and China.

For more information visit: (www.quantm.net).

The award will be presented during the COFES 2006 event in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, April 20-23, 2006.

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