Cornerstone has introduced a new website at www.SearchCornerstone.com designed to bring the construction industry’s projects, people, products and businesses together to provide an effective marketing platform, a database of searchable building information and a digital record of who built what.
The open-source website allows companies and individuals to create online portfolios showcasing their projects, skills, experiences and products. Users can add building projects to the map or edit existing projects with specific technical details, pictures or trivia.
Users are also invited to inscribe their name on to the Cornerstone of a project, to tell people ‘I built this’. The company says that by adding this information users become easier to find in a fragmented market, while also creating a useful archive of building information, which it says does not currently exist.
Visitors to the website can also search the database for specific information such as any major building projects planned nearby; which buildings in London have more than 30 floors; which offices are rated BREEAM Excellent and which products or companies were involved.
Cornerstone co-founder Andrew Link said: “Whether you are an architect, engineer or builder everyone passes by buildings they were involved in and says with a great sense of pride ‘I built that’. We aimed to create a website which would allow people to record this online to show friends, family and colleagues. We also wanted to make that same information useful to the construction industry as a whole by placing it in a structured searchable format.”
Cornerstone is free to use, with premium services to be introduced in January 2015. However anyone who joins before the end of 2014 will receive premium services free for life.
Cornerstone was first conceptualised by Andrew in 1999, who whilst at Nottingham Trent University, was inspired to join a company based on the fact it was listed on a cornerstone located at the Theatre Royal in the City.
For more information visit www.SearchCornerstone.com