VHSoft Products Endorsed by Mainland Experts

Three construction engineering and project management IT solutions developed by VHSoft Technologies have been reviewed and consequently endorsed by two expert bodies of mainland China iV the Association of Senior Professors and the Guojie Institute of Science and Technology Development on January 12, 2002. The evaluation panel consists senior scholars in the field of construction and information technology from prestigious universities of China, including Tsinghua University and Tongji University. The panel was so impressed by the features and functions of these products that they highly recommend them for boarder application in the mainland China market.

After thoroughly examining VHDrawings? VHStations?and VHBuild.com? in terms of technology innovation and functionalities, the evaluation panel had reached the following verdicts:

VHDrawings is a drawing file management solution specially developed for construction design process. By implementing drawing recognition technology, users can efficiently search and locate any text information within electronic drawing files while no manually input of indexing keywords is needed. Furthermore, it can link various type of descriptive files such as documentations and graphics that are relevant to the drawing file so as to provide a better way to archive and retrieve design files. Users can conveniently access external CAD software from the VHDrawings platform to make necessary modification.

VHStation is an steel reinforcement taking-off software application powered VHSoft's unique artificial intelligent pattern recognition technology. It can process electronic engineering drawings and automatically recognize construction elements such as beam, column and slab and extract numerical information associated with these elements. Based on such information, VHStation can then reconstruct the 3D relationship of all construction elements and accurately calculate total amount of steel reinforcement required to complete the project.

VHBuild is an online construction project management system. Through its the internet based platform, all kinds of electronic project files such as documentations, drawings, contracts and photos can be exchanged between all participating parties in an efficient way. All users are assigned unique project and account access rights. The operation of VHBuild system strictly complies to the internationally recognized information security standard iV BS7799 to maintain highest level of protection. The system can dynamically link all parties involved in construction projects such as developers, administrators, contractors, architects and suppliers together to form a streamline and efficient working environment and lay a foundation for real-time remote project monitoring.

The evaluation panel believed that the above software applications are well positioned in terms of development direction. At current stage, these solutions possess unique technology edges. With further fine turning, they will have great marketing potential. Furthermore, these software will be able to promote the modernization of the construction and project management processes.

The evaluation panel had also provided some valuable suggestions for the future development of VHSoft products. Firstly, the software applications must accommodate the government regulation of mainland China if we want to successfully enter the market. The development of software products must also adopt to the characteristics of software application environment and management styles in the mainland market.

Secondly, VHSoft should select some benchmark construction projects in mainland China to try out and optimized these software. And finally, the software development process can be integrated with human resource training to foster more talents.