Oracle Honors Customer Innovation with Oracle Aconex Connect Awards

Oracle has announced the winners of the Oracle Aconex Connect Awards in the Americas. Now in its third year, the global awards honor customers worldwide for innovation in delivering significant construction and engineering projects efficiently and effectively. Winners for the Europe, Middle-East and Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific (APAC) regions were announced separately today.

As the industry matures, so does customer technology adoption and optimization. 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, organizations 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.”

“Aconex is a critical resource for our growing agency where organizational transparency is key,” said Wulf Grote, Capital and Service Development Director, Valley Metro. “Their support means knowing information is always available so we can get it to the right people at the right time.”

Select results from the 2018 Americas Connect Awards winners:

• Austin Commercial cut time spent tracking and reporting RFIs and submittals by 75 percent and reduced the time spent on managing communication flow across their JV by 66 percent.
• Burns & McDonnell previously reduced RFI cycles using Aconex from 3.64 days to 2.35 days and now through cross project standardization that has continued to decrease to an average of just 1.6 days.

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

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

This year a special award was introduced to acknowledge the significant contribution of women to the advancement of technology in engineering and construction.

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

• Aguas Pacífico – Hero Award to Lilian Barrios for Excellence in Process Implementation on a Public Project.
• Austin Commercial – Project Award for Excellence in Project-Wide Collaboration on a Joint Venture (SFO Terminal 1 Boarding Area B Reconstruction).
• Burns & McDonnell – Leadership Award to Patty Sullivan - 2018 Woman in Construction Technology.
• Colorado High Performance Transportation Enterprise – Project Award for Excellence in Process Improvement on a P3 (Central 70).
• Valley Metro – Enterprise Award for Excellence in Process Improvement to Support Company Growth and Hero Award to April Trevett for Excellence in Company-Wide Implementation and Adoption.

Global honorees for the 2018 Oracle Aconex Connect Award include: China Railway Major Bridge Engineering Group Co. LTD, Faithful + Gould (member of the SNC-Lavalin Group), Lendlease, Turner & Townsend Company and VINCI Construction Grands Projets, among others. Read more about selected 2018 Oracle Aconex Connect Awards winners here.