Northern Ireland firm FP McCann has won the Small Projects category at Trimble's UK Tekla Awards 2016.

The company will now be entered into the Tekla Global BIM Awards.

The Tekla Awards focuses on projects of all shapes and sizes, which have used Trimble's Tekla software as part of the process for designing and modelling structures, or where the use of Tekla software has aided collaboration.

FP McCann scooped the award for its Development Dock entry, demonstrating a use of Tekla Structures custom components to improve the speed of the detailing process.

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FP McCann Senior Technician, Colin Mackenzie said: "FP McCann has had Tekla for around two years. Development in earnest however began about 10 months ago. As a result, we have grown from a two-man development team to a team with over half a dozen technicians and an additional person managing the demands from the business. The main benefit of using Tekla for this project was the ability to allow detailers to reduce the time spent on projects from days to hours. It also allows for more accurate costing and data management. Now coming into phase two of the development for the dock tools, detailers will have greater control over the automated manufacturing process we are now beginning to employ here at FP McCann directly from the models, ensuring that the business is moving in the right direction for quality and BIM workflows."

(CD/MH)