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Commercialisation and Utilisation<br />

Number of unique website hits per month <strong>2006</strong>–<strong>07</strong>:<br />

July <strong>2006</strong><br />

8,957<br />

August <strong>2006</strong><br />

10,018<br />

September <strong>2006</strong><br />

11,426<br />

October <strong>2006</strong><br />

13,452<br />

November <strong>2006</strong><br />

12,624<br />

December <strong>2006</strong><br />

13,140<br />

January 20<strong>07</strong><br />

13,573<br />

February 20<strong>07</strong><br />

15,002<br />

March 20<strong>07</strong><br />

18,575<br />

April 20<strong>07</strong><br />

16,649<br />

May 20<strong>07</strong><br />

17,433<br />

June 20<strong>07</strong><br />

23,589<br />

activities and downloads of the project reports. Through <strong>2006</strong>–<strong>07</strong><br />

<strong>Construction</strong> <strong>Innovation</strong> has committed increased resources to<br />

maintaining and updating the website.<br />

Website traffic has substantially increased over the <strong>2006</strong>–<strong>07</strong> period,<br />

more than doubling from the month of July <strong>2006</strong> (8,957 unique<br />

website hits) to the month of June 20<strong>07</strong> (23,589 unique website hits).<br />

The majority of these hits have been from Australian industry.<br />

The Update newsletter is uploaded to the website regularly and<br />

distributed by email to approximately 3000 key national and<br />

international stakeholders. In <strong>2006</strong>–<strong>07</strong> nine editions were produced.<br />

Industry publications<br />

The <strong>2006</strong>–<strong>07</strong> period has seen a number of projects produce research<br />

reports suited to further development into industry publications,<br />

as listed below. These publications present the key learnings and<br />

benefits emerging from the research in a format aimed at facilitating<br />

industry acceptance and uptake. Publications are an important tool<br />

for communicating with industry and SMEs.<br />

Publications and industry brochures have been widely disseminated<br />

through their availability on our website, at selected conferences,<br />

<strong>Construction</strong> <strong>Innovation</strong> research symposia and industry workshops<br />

and with the assistance of our participants and industry associations.<br />

• Being the best (1300 copies distributed)<br />

• Innovate now! (610 copies distributed)<br />

• adopting eBusiness in building and construction<br />

(1120 copies distributed)<br />

• eTendering — Security and Legal Issues (180 copies distributed)<br />

• Predicted lifetimes of metallic building components<br />

(120 copies distributed)<br />

• PICTURING SUCCESS series – includes hard copy introductory<br />

overview to online resources (140 copies distributed)<br />

• <strong>Construction</strong> safety competency framework: Improving OH&S<br />

performance by creating and maintaining a safety framework<br />

and its executive summary (919 copies distributed)<br />

• FM as a business enabler and its executive summary<br />

(344 copies distributed)<br />

Adopting BIM for facilities management<br />

• (885 copies distributed)<br />

• HVAC system size: Getting it right (120 copies distributed)<br />

After their initial distribution at launches and related industry<br />

workshops, our industry publications continue to be offered for sale<br />

and can be ordered for purchase or downloaded for free online. At<br />

least seven additional publications will be available by December<br />

20<strong>07</strong>.<br />

Update Newsletter.<br />

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