Meridian, HNTB, and KFA acknowledged as technology enablers

FOLSOM, Calif. (September 12, 2007) - Meridian Systems, a provider of enterprise project management software for optimizing capital projects, programs and facilities, today announced that Constructech magazine honored the Illinois Tollway at the 2007 Vision Awards on August 23 at the annual Constructech Technology Day event. Additionally, Technology Enabler Vision Awards for the project were presented to Meridian Systems, HNTB and Kristine Fallon Associates (KFA).

The Constructech Vision Awards honor companies that have realized the advantages of applying innovative technologies to their everyday businesses. For more information, please visit http://www.specialtypub.com/constructech/press.asp?release_id=63.

The Illinois Tollway has been honored for its use of Proliance® On Demand software to manage their Congestion-Relief Program (CRP)-Open Roads for a Faster Future-which is a multi-billion dollar capital program designed to rebuild and reduce congestion on the nearly 50-year-old Illinois Tollway System. The program rebuilds/restores nearly all of the 274-mile system, widens/adds lanes to many miles of existing roads, converts 20 mainline toll plazas to Open Road Tolling, and extends the North-South Tollway (I-355) south from I-55 to I-80 in Will County, one of the fastest growing areas in the State of Illinois.

The Illinois Tollway selected Proliance software because of its unique ability to manage complete capital project lifecycles in one enterprise solution. More information about the CRP and the Illinois Tollway is available at the Illinois Tollway's Web site at www.illinoistollway.com.

"We congratulate the Illinois Tollway, as well as HNTB and KFA, for this honorable recognition," said Sue Watkins, Director of Marketing at Meridian Systems. "We are pleased that Proliance can help capital project owners, like the Illinois Tollway, implement an ILM (Infrastructure Lifecycle Management) solution that can improve business practices and gain efficiencies in managing the plan, build, and operate process."

More than 750 Tollway project management personnel utilize Proliance software in Meridian's On Demand hosted environment, which provides several key benefits including: real-time Project Management with Ball-in-Court responsibility; critical path reporting; faster application deployment; lower initial investment; and application scalability as business demands increase.

About the Illinois Tollway
The Illinois Tollway maintains and operates 274 miles of interstate tollways in 12 counties in Northern Illinois, including the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway (I-88), the North-South Tollway (I-355), the Northwest Tollway (I-90) and the Tri-State Tollway (I-94, I-294, I-80/I-294). Tollway customers can save time and money with I-PASS electronic toll collection - Get I-PASS & Get Going! For more information visit www.illinoistollway.com.

About Meridian Systems
Construction project management software from Meridian Systems, a Trimble Company (NASDAQ: TRMB), allows building owners, construction and engineering firms, and government agencies to efficiently manage their capital projects, programs and facilities. Meridian has been ranked the market share leader for project management and collaboration software by Constructech magazine,1 and by the CFMA among general contractors larger than $101 million in revenue.2 For more information, call Meridian Systems at (800) 850 2660, or visit: www.meridiansystems.com/pr0912072.

1Statistics excerpted from the 2006 National Construction-Technology survey, Constructech Magazine.
2CFMA's 2006 Information Technology Survey for the Construction Industry, sixth edition with the permission of the Construction Financial Management Association, Princeton, NJ, (609) 452 8000.

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