Project collaboration tool provider, Cadweb, has produced the "Football Pitch Report," which takes the volume of project information currently stored on Cadweb's servers, lays it out on the ground as if it had all been printed and tells you how many football pitches this would cover.

The report also calculates how many Nelson's Columns high the pile of paper would be if it were piled up, then calculates how many tonnes of paper this would have used and how many trees would have been required to produce it.

There is, of course, a serious point to producing this report. "We are showing what it actually means to be using a Project Extranet in anger as the primary means of project communication, and just how much information is transferred and stored when this is happening" said Francis Newman, Sales and Marketing Director of Cadweb. "We have always believed that unless all the important project information is on the Extranet there is little value to be gained from their use. They become an additional requirement that needs to be fulfilled rather than a replacement for a current task."

The Construction Industry by and large now accepts the usefulness of Project Extranets and as a result their use is developing rapidly. Cadweb is now looking at the next phase of its development which is the creation of benchmarks that can be used by clients to quantify the savings they make from the use of a Project Extranet. 

View the report at www.cadweb.co.uk