The CITA 20TH Members Meeting, held in the Aviva stadium on Friday 21st May 2010, was a great success. There were 160 people in attendance. The event included presentations from John Whelan (CEO Irish Exporters Association), Jan Gerritsen (Enterprise Ireland), Ken Kennedy (Group IT Manager, John Sisk & Son), and Sean Gallagher (Entrepreneur on Dragons Den and CEO Smarthomes).

The meeting concluded with a tour of the new Aviva Stadium. To read more about this meeting and to access presentations, members can now access the highlights of the presentations on the CITA EIN YouTube Channel.

CITA would like to welcome the following new members to the Alliance:
o Outcam Systems
o McQuillan Architects
o Electromaher Ltd
o SmartBuilder Software
o Print Logistics
o Keogh Consultancy

CITA Ltd. were delighted to be successful in securing grant funding for the period 2010-2011.

For further information on the CITA Skillnet training programme contact Michael O'Donnell at modonnell@cita.ie D Tel: 01-470 4397

On Thursday 25th June 2010 was successful in securing approval for an MSc in Construction Informatics from DIT. This Masters approval is an upgrade to the post graduate diploma in Construction Informatics that CITA received approval for on 18th June 2009. The Construction Informatics programme can now be completed on both a full time and a part time basis. CITA Member Companies can avail of up to 30% discount on the cost of programme modules. Suitable applications should have a minimum of a 2.2 degree in a construction related discipline.

The 9th CITA EIN members meeting took place on Wednesday 21st July. This meeting was the second in a series of promotional meetings on Building Information Modelling and was kindly sponsored by Graphisoft.

The CITA Enterprise Innovation Network team are now concentrating on three categories for potential development by CITA, namely:

1. Construction software applications related to project collaboration, site mobile computing and electronic document management.

2. Information services related to information provision, including product specifications, regulations, standards, including mapping international standards; standards for information exchange; and software information provision.

3. Support Services including technology support services, training services and international marketplace services.

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