Qwest Communications' Mark Claussen Wins ARCHIBUS Distinguished User Award of Excellence for Sustained Leadership and Innovation
Recognition for “Outside the Box” Thinking in Space Management, Condition Assessment Projects
July 21, 2011 — Boston, MassachusettsQwest Communications Senior Real Estate Analyst Mark Claussen has won the Distinguished User Award of Excellence from ARCHIBUS, Inc. (www.archibus.com), the # 1 developer of software solutions for real estate, infrastructure and facilities management in the world.
The Distinguished User Award of Excellenceis presented to an organization or an individual who has provided sustained leadership in their FM automation practices and implementation.
Mr. Claussen has been “on point” for Qwest’s ARCHIBUS project since its inception three years ago. He has led a team of power users in different cities as they built the space database. He has consistently looked to ARCHIBUS as opportunities arose to track assets.
The most recent example of this is the Artwork project, where an existing list of company-owned art works was imported into the ARCHIBUS database and is assessed on a regular basis using the ARCHIBUS Condition Assessment application to determine current value and condition. Mr. Claussen has continuously thought “outside the box” to stretch the capabilities of ARCHIBUS for Qwest. He makes ARCHIBUS work for Qwest Communications.
The award was announced at the recent 16th annual International ARCHIBUS Users’ Conference, held at Walt Disney World’s Swan Hotel in Orlando, Florida. The event is attended by executives from corporations, governments, healthcare organizations, educational institutions and others to exchange ideas on more efficient management practices that reduce overall cost of occupancy, lower energy use, and improve environmental sustainability.
For a complete list of award winners, click here.
About ARCHIBUS, Inc.
ARCHIBUS is the #1 global provider of real estate, infrastructure, and facilities management solutions with the total annual expenditures for ARCHIBUS-related products and services exceeding $1.9 Billion (USD). ARCHIBUS maintains a significant presence in the telecommunications industry worldwide where it has been implemented by Telefónica S.A., Vodafone, Portugal Telecom, AT&T Wireless and others. Through effective innovation and business transformation, ARCHIBUS users save their organizations over $100 billion annually. With ARCHIBUS, organizations can use a single, comprehensive, integrated solution to make informed strategic decisions that optimize return-on-investment, lower asset lifecycle costs, and increase enterprise-wide productivity and profitability. ARCHIBUS is the world-wide proponent for the creation of ubiquitous environmental sustainability.
More than 4,000,000 ARCHIBUS enterprise and Web users collectively manage over 5,000,000 properties, with organizations reporting facilities-related cost savings as high as 34%. With over 1,600 ARCHIBUS Business Partners, local and regional support worldwide is available in over 130 countries and in more than two dozen languages. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, ARCHIBUS, Inc. has pioneered computer-aided infrastructure and facilities management technologies since 1982. For more information, visit archibus.com.