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Modulaire Group | June 28, 2021
Modulaire Group, Europe's and Asia Pacific's leading infrastructure services business specialising in modular services, is delighted to announce that its shareholders have agreed to sell the company to investment funds controlled by Brookfield Business Partners L.P.
Brookfield is buying Modulaire from its owners, who include investment funds controlled by TDR Capital LLP ("TDR"), a prominent private equity company headquartered in the United Kingdom. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2021, subject to customary regulatory and competitive approvals.Brookfield Business Partners is the publicly traded flagship company of Brookfield Asset Management, a leading worldwide alternative asset manager with over $600 billion in assets under management.
Modulaire has evolved to become the largest supplier of modular services and infrastructure in Europe and Asia Pacific under TDR ownership. The Group's experienced management team has improved the company by focusing on four strategic objectives: granular branch-level performance management, continual efficiency improvement, disciplined capital deployment, and a targeted acquisition strategy.
Modulaire is anticipated to provide strong ongoing growth, fueled by major market and secular factors such as post-COVID government stimulus programmes, ageing building stock throughout Europe, and a structural move toward modular space. The company is also benefiting from strong ESG tailwinds as clients seek to secure facilities with a lower carbon footprint, as well as decreased waste and energy usage during development.
Modulaire's existing management team will stay with the Group after its purchase by Brookfield and will continue to concentrate on advancing the Group's strategic growth goal.Goldman Sachs International, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, and STJ Advisors advised Modulaire Group, while Linklaters LLP provided legal counsel.
About Modulaire Group
Modulaire Group is the European market leader in modular services and infrastructure. We design intelligent environments in which people may live, work, and learn. Our company's mission is to assist clients in finding the best space solution for their needs. Modulaire Group operates in 25 countries and has about 259,000 modular space and portable storage units, as well as 3,400 remote accommodation rooms. In Europe and Scandinavia, the company is known as Algeco; in the United Kingdom, it is known as Elliott, Advanté, and Carter; in the Netherlands, it is known as BUKO Huisvesting, BUKO Bouw & Winkels, and BUKO Bouwsystemen; in Australia, it is known as Ausco; in New Zealand, it is known as Portacom; and in China, it is known as Algeco Chengdong.
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Autodesk | September 23, 2020
Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADSK) today announced it has launched a new model coordination workflow between two of its flagship products, Navisworks and BIM 360 Model Coordination, both of which are widely used by architects, engineers and construction teams. The new integration further strengthens Autodesk Construction Cloud by enabling construction teams to manage the entire model coordination workflow including clash detection and issues management in a common data environment from within a single solution. Customers can now take advantage of both Navisworks and BIM 360 Model Coordination's best-in-class capabilities to improve the quality of construction documents, save time, decrease schedule risk and reduce rework. Before a construction project breaks ground, Navisworks empowers general contractors to identify and resolve clash and constructability issues, and BIM 360 Model Coordination enables design and trade partners to create, track and self-check issues that arise during the model coordination process. Now, users can automate clash detection in BIM 360 Model Coordination, as well as create and assign issues from either Navisworks or BIM 360. This new workflow enhances existing coordination workflows for Navisworks users and empowers BIM 360 Model Coordination users to do more specific clash detection and analysis in Navisworks.
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PBC Today | September 28, 2020
With SMEs accounting for the vast majority of the construction supply chain, adopting digital transformation could bring significant benefits for the whole industry, yet the evidence suggests they are being left behind. What needs to change? Industry 4.0 is a general term that refers to a range of emerging technologies that many believe mark the fourth industrial revolution. Underpinned by data and analytics, these new technologies are heavily focused on interconnectivity, automation and machine learning. For the construction industry, they represent a world where seamless technology platforms will help improve productivity, promote flexible production capability, create high-value jobs, aid competitiveness and, ultimately, drive growth to support national economic success. However, for the digital transformation of the construction industry to be successful, we need to see adoption not just by large enterprises but in small and medium enterprises (SMEs), which make up a significant percentage of the industry.
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