Overall winners of Build Qatar Live

Unbelievable news coming through off the web - "Team BIM Academy" (BIM Academy, Cundall, Mott MacDonald, NBS, Ryder Architecture, Turner + Townsend and Colour Urban Design) won the main award for the Build Qatar Live 48 hour competition.

The final design

41 countries took part. In the year of "BIM UK" - it was fitting that a team from the UK took the prize.

NBS played a small part

Read all about it and watch the video blogs at our special Build Qatar website:
http://www.thenbs.com/topics/BIM/articles/buildQatarLive.asp

How Group Chief Executive of ASite Tony Ryan announced the winners...

"The overall winner goes to BIM Academy, congratulations guys. Fantastic, an absolutely fantastic effort – it was just incredible watching you guys work. And the amount of social connectivity and communications that you guys were putting out also – as an aside was incredible. We enjoyed following you."

Final word on the subject - a big up to BIM Academy's George Mokhtar who project managed the bid - nice work George. Now get some sleep.