Intergraph® Icon Awards Honor Innovative Industry Leaders

Awards recognize exceptional application of enterprise engineering and geospatial technologies

 

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 16, 2009 – Intergraph® named today the recipients of the 2009 Icon Awards, the company’s most prestigious customer distinction recognizing visionary companies and organizations that have innovatively used Intergraph’s enterprise engineering and geospatial software to bring significant benefits to their business or industry.

The Icon Awards were announced in Washington, D.C. during the opening keynote ceremonies of Intergraph 2009.  The guest keynote speaker for Intergraph’s international users’ conference was esteemed broadcast television anchor and author Tom Brokaw.

The 2009 Icon Award winners are: Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), a fully integrated nuclear technology and service provider; Enersource Hydro Mississauga, an electricity distribution company for the city of Mississauga in Ontario, Canada; Istituto Geografico Militare Italiano (IGMI), a national institution that produces digital cartography and provides integrated geospatial data to the Italian government; Saipem, an Italy-based turnkey contractor in the oil and gas industry; SINOPEC Engineering Incorporation (SEI), a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corp., China’s largest petrochemical producer and crude oil refiner; and Surrey Police, a metropolitan London police department.

 “Since Intergraph began 40 years ago, our driving force has always been innovation,” said Intergraph Chairman, President and CEO Halsey Wise. “The six 2009 Icon Award winners today demonstrate how Intergraph’s technological innovation is helping our customers in truly powering our future.”

“The advancements that these companies have made to drive productivity and efficiency in the industries they serve is truly profound.  It is a great honor for all of us at Intergraph to recognize these outstanding industry leaders today at Intergraph 2009,” said Intergraph Chief Operating Officer Reid French.

Icon Award Winner Profiles

When AECL needed a company whose solutions could enable it to complete projects on time as well as on budget, it chose Intergraph. By using Intergraph’s SmartPlant® 3D design software, AECL was able to more quickly design its Advanced CANDU Reactor, a reactor so safe and efficient that it can continue operating at full power operation even during refueling. Together, Intergraph and AECL are working to deliver carbon-free power for the future while also striving to meet the need for electricity today.

To meet the energy demands of its customers, Enersource Hydro Mississauga, an Ontario-based utility, manages its Smart Grid infrastructure and operations with Intergraph command-and-control software.  This technology allows Enersource to operate its entire electric grid from a single computer console. Enersource’s unified command-and-control environment, accomplished through the use of Intergraph solutions, provides easy-to-visualize actionable intelligence allowing for quick detection and remediation of outages and other possible issues.

Italy’s national mapping agency IGMI, which provides mapping products used by the Italian military for both domestic and international operations, utilizes Intergraph mapping solutions to streamline and automate its map production and to assure quality. Chosen in part for its high-level geographic data production, Intergraph technology played a critical role during the 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Torino when IGMI relied on it to provide digital geospatial cartography.

Saipem, a renowned global energy services provider and a leader in the oil and gas industry, relies on Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise solutions for its onshore, offshore and drilling projects. Recognized for its prowess in surmounting technical challenges in hard-to-operate areas, Saipem is another industry leader that, together with Intergraph, is defining the future of engineering today.

SEI, a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corp., specializes in engineering, procurement and construction management and supervision, technical consultation project management and technical services, along with other sectors within the oil and gas industry.  In the last 50 years, SEI has completed more than 1,000 refining units, petrochemical plants and utility facilities in China, and is currently No. 1 among the country’s top 100 engineering companies and design institutes. SEI selected SmartPlant Enterprise solutions for their advanced technology and open database structure that would allow them to increase productivity and accelerate the pipeline, refinery and utility infrastructure projects necessary to meet the demands of the world’s fastest growing economy.

To increase the effectiveness of the 9-9-9 emergency call system, Surrey Police, which protects the nearly 1.1 million residents of the southeastern England county bordering London, sought to expand call handling with a customer contact center. Surrey Police chose Intergraph public safety incident management and reporting solutions, which protect 1 in 12 people in the world, to aid in the development of the center which answers 36,000 calls per month. Since the Intergraph technology was been implemented last year, the department experienced significant reductions in the number of crime calls and efficiency savings.

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About Intergraph
Intergraph is the leading global provider of engineering and geospatial software that enables customers to visualize complex data. Businesses and governments in more than 60 countries rely on Intergraph’s industry-specific software to organize vast amounts of data into understandable visual representations and actionable intelligence. Intergraph’s software and services empower customers to build and operate more efficient plants and ships, create intelligent maps, and protect critical infrastructure and millions of people around the world.

Intergraph operates through two divisions: Process, Power & Marine (PP&M) and Security, Government & Infrastructure (SG&I).  Intergraph PP&M provides enterprise engineering software for the design, construction and operation of plants, ships and offshore facilities. Intergraph SG&I provides geospatially-powered solutions to the defense and intelligence, public safety and security, government, transportation, photogrammetry, utilities, and communications industries. For more information, visit www.intergraph.com.

John Deaver
Executive Director, Corporate Communications
+1.404.751.2570
John.Deaver@Intergraph.com

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