Press Information                                                                     For Immediate Publication

Duncan S. Rowe                                                                                     January 10, 2001

4DM Inc.

416-410-7569

info@4dm-inc.com

 

4DM Augments the Black & Veatch Team

4DM Inc. Announces that a Strategic Relationship with Black & Veatch has been forged

 

<Toronto, Ontario>—4DM Inc is pleased to announce that a Strategic Relationship has been forged with Black & Veatch of Kansas City, MO. The professional services of 4DM have been retained to augment B&V’s Water Resources and Infrastructure Planning Departments.

 

The strategic relationship will allow these B&V departments to tap into the 4DM strengths of Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing, Internet Media, and Information technology in new project pursuits, as well as assisting in existing projects.

This relationship will further allow 4DM to exercise these strengths in companion with the engineering strengths of B&V.

 

“Both the Infrastructure Planning and Water Resources Departments have quality, advanced clients that allow both firms to excel in delivery of services” explains Duncan Rowe, General Partner of 4DM. “Black  & Veatch always looks for ways for doing business ‘better, faster, cheaper’ and that is what our firm can provide”.

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4DM Inc. is an innovative, technology-driven service company specializing in leveraging the spatial information assets of its clients to bring economies of operation and enhanced performance. 4DM creates value for our clients through the application of technologies, alliances and innovative partnerships. Our specialty is combining Spatial Information Technologies with scientific application to derive visual value-added information. Our professional services include application development, consulting, data management and analysis, and training. For more information about 4DM Inc., visit the company's Web site at http://www.4dm-inc.com./

 

Black & Veatch is one of the largest and most diversified engineering and construction companies in the world, having completed more than 35,000 projects for some 6,500 different clients around the globe. The construction engineering design firm employs approximately 9,000 professionals in more than 90 offices worldwide in countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe. Kansas City, Missouri, serves as headquarters for the employee-owned company. Black & Veatch has been ranked 14th by InformationWeek in their list of the "Top 500 Technology Innovators" and 61st by Forbes magazine in their list of the "500 Largest Private Companies in the U.S." For more information about Black & Veatch, visit the company's Web site at http://www.bv.com/.