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We’re delighted to announce that our project in partnership with the London Borough of Redbridge, the Ilford Blueprint (visit the website or download a Case Study (PDF)), has won a Socitim 2010 Local Government IT Excellence Award for Supplier Excellence at the Socitim Annual Conference in Brighton. The competition highlights public sector IT projects that improve the efficiency and delivery of services within local communities.
The Ilford Blueprint Online – which already created a major splash at the Property Lynx conference – is a web-based marketing tool that incorporates 3D visualisation of development potential in the borough using Virtual Viewing’s Massive Scale Modelling technology. Socitm said the project team has combined web based commerce and gaming technology with planning policy and regeneration, to promote development opportunity sites identified in Ilford’s Area Action Plan.
As you may have already 
London Borough of Redbridge also used the event to launch 
After launching our 3D City Modelling capability at the MIPIM 2010 Conference and Exhibition in Cannes in March, Virtual Viewing has recently been invited to participate in a second pan-European event to demonstrate both our technical expertise and our understanding of – and strength of service in – the broader aspects of urban design, city planning and place-making. The 
Encouraged by the extremely positive feedback received after working across Europe and the UK with local authorities, city planners and investment developers hungry for a 3d modelling solution, Virtual Viewing exhibited its own groundbreaking, innovative and extremely cost effective 3d technology at the largest property show in Europe; MIPIM 2010, in March this year.
We’ve been developing our portfolio of 3d virtual city and architectural modelling solutions for several years now, but now we’re taking the time to train the spotlight not on a fully rendered city centre or a pioneering architectural development … but on ourselves. This March, we are taking the opportunity to put ourselves on the international stage and show that we are ready to take our place amongst the very best in the industry.
