Award
Category
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Project
Name - Submitting
Organization
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Project
Information
and Highlights
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Examples
from Project
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Communications |
KeySpan
Communications
Corp.Fiber Network |
Company
Profile:
KeySpan Communications manages a network of 66,000 miles of fiber optic
cable in New York, Long Island and New Jersey.The company's mission is
to support broadband services to meet all their telecommunications
needs
while providing the opportunity to connect to more than 100 service
providers for voice, Internet and video requirements.
Project
Overview:
In 1998, the company realized the need to upgrade the CAD systems to
manage a growing fiber network.
Results
Achieved:
Bentley Fiber and Bentley Inside Plant software was implemented to more
effectively address troubleshooting, tracking customer circuit data and
restoring service in the event of an outage.The amount of engineering
time was significantly reduced over conventional methods for
identifying
strand availability and splicing strategy.The investigative time to
detect
outages is anywhere from two to four hours, showing a significant
reduction
in down time.Other applications include a complete pole attachment
database
to track pole licensing and fees to produce circuit traffic and fiber
usage
data reports for regulated utility back charges.
Editor's
Comments:
The services that KeySpan provides to the regional growth of the
communication
infrastructure were key to being recognized in this category.Although
KeySpan
only manages a limited area of the infrastructure, it is critical to
the
growth of their business and for maintaining the "up time" for their
customers
and that their technology be reliable.The company reported zero hours downtime related to hardware, software or data loss
during
the last three years.The data was kept at 98% "real time" accuracy.
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Geospatial
Modeling |
Japan
Conservation Engineers
Examples of Construction of Landslide GIS |
Company
Profile:
Japan Conservation Engineers Co., Ltd.was the consultant to several
municipalities
on a contract to model landslide potential and help them develop early
warning solutions.
Project
Overview:
Users can now evaluate three-dimensional cross sections in a system
called
Landslide GIS using MicroStation and Geopak.Grid data is being
generated
from modeling sliding mass or slipping surface in the system for
three-dimensional
analysis.
Results
Achieved:
Because several large areas had to be evaluated and modeled, time
savings
were realized in the revision of technical drafts for 3D map
visualization.
Manual drafting was eliminated and now cross section models are
consistent.
Editor's
Comments:
In terms of impact upon the community, this project provided critical
information
regarding landslide potential, in particular in areas where landslides
have
already occurred such as the Sumikawa district in Akita, Douzan River
district
in Nagasaki, and Sounzan district in Kanagawa.The analysis now
provides
information for planning and prevention and forms the basis for
simulation
models.The project was comprehensive in scope and showed the potential
of integrated civil engineering information with geospatial data.
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Government |
PATH RENOT |
Company
Profile:
The National Registry of Territorial Ordering Norms/Laws (RENOT) is
part
of the National System of Property Administration (SINAP) and is a
pivotal
tool of the Honduras Land Administration Project, or PATH.
Project
Overview:
The system has been conceived with the purpose of administering and
publishing
the administrative rights that emanate from the institutions that have
law ministry in the territorial ordering field in Honduras.The scope
of
administration and publishing extends to the geometric and alphanumeric
attributes of these norms and their respective legal reference.The
development
of the first phase of RENOT started in July of 2004 and was finalized
in
December of the same year.This first phase includes the administrative
registry process, storing of documents and zoning (vector) management
via MicroStation GeoGraphics with Oracle Spatial.In the second phase,
RENOT will have a full connection with the cadastral and land registry
system.
Results
Achieved:
The key benefit of this project was data integration, both legal and
administrative, in a single zoning system.Analytical processing to
determine
parcel with zoning information was achieved.Cadastral and zoning
information
was published via an Intranet.The time to create a single map was
reduced
by a factor of four.The time to perform zoning analysis was reduced
from
three days to 15 minutes.
Editor's
Comments:
In a capitalist society, taxation forms the backbone of a government's
ability to provide services.Land registry is the means by which
taxation
is managed and you can't have land registry without maps.In Honduras,
the country has established a nationwide land registry repository and
it
is an impressive feat to have these resources online to the public so
that
laws established by the Public Registry are easily accessible to the
general
public.
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Managed
Environments |
Total E&P
Nederland
B.V. |
Company
Profile:
Total E&P Nederland is an oil exploration and product company.Its
parent company, Total, is based in Paris.
Project
Overview:
This specific project focused on implementing a solution where all
graphic
files for the Geosciences division were to be stored in a central
database.
Because of the dispersed location of many thousands of map documents, the
project's
objective was to create a geospatial index of these documents for
geoscience
professionals via an Internet application.
Results
Achieved:
Bentley's ProjectWise was implemented to create the spatial index.Two
thousand maps and 20,000 graphics files were indexed within a
four week period.
Editor's
Comments:
To begin a geological investigation of a suspected oil reservoir
requires
massive amounts of information, most of which has been captured on a
map.
It helps that when a specific area is first identified that all
available
map data be gathered as quickly as possible.Total now has these
resources
indexed for searching using a web-based application.
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Mapping &
Cadastre |
The City of
Calgary Base
Mapping Management Program |
Company
Profile:
The City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada has had an ongoing project to
develop
a corporate-wide GIS since 1990.The base mapping project has been
evolving
over this period in which MicroStation was used to capture geographic
information
including four primary elements: the cadastral base, parcel fabric,
single
line road network and digital aerial survey.
Project
Overview:
These integrated production systems are tied to multiple Oracle
databases
as well as the Corporate addressing system.They are
maintained/accessed
concurrently.All base mapping products overlay seamlessly in the
Calgary
3TM coordinate frame.As a result, Calgary enjoys highly accurate and
rich
information in all the engineering, emergency dispatch, utilities and
asset management, transportation and planning business functions both
in
the CAD and GIS environments within and across the city.
Results
Achieved:
The most significant impact of this project has been made within the
customized
base mapping environment centers around the maintenance of the
addressing
and parcel mapping systems and workflows.The city reports that through
customization utilizing MicroStation MDL and associated applications,
with
some minor modification of the supporting database schemas, they were
able
to integrate the parcel application with the addressing system, thereby
virtually eliminating the possibility of creating mismatches.
Augmenting
this with automated QA and reporting, the city has reduced the number
of
address/parcel anomalies to approximately 2,000 from 8,000 (less than
1%
of the total 300,000), a number that is still improving.
Editor's
Comments:
What is impressive about this project is that while many cities talk about
the
"integrated city" approach, few have attempted it; fewer have
accomplished
it.Calgary seems to be doing it in spades.The city relies heavy on
customized
MDL applications and an Oracle database.Even agencies like police and
fire that are typically skeptical about sharing data leverage the
central
database of base maps, address layer and parcel layers.
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Public Works |
City of
Toronto-Toronto
Water Integrated Network Skeletonization (TWINS) |
Company
Profile:
The Survey & Mapping Unit of the Technical Services Division of the
City of Toronto maintains an as-built mapping environment that emulates
the real world network with 307,956 pipes/segments.The system
architecture
includes MicroStation 2004, GeoGraphics, Bentley Water and Oracle.The
Bentley Water data model has been extended to include feature
attributes
to populate the City's data warehouse and work order management
system.
Project
Overview:
TWINS is the project
that was designed to provide information about the water features that
are essential to the operation and maintenance of the water system.The
Canadian climate increases the occurrences of water main breaks and
potential
service disruption.With the acquisition of Bentley WaterGEMS,
the
City began to generate the twin water network; a less granular data set
to support current business processes.
Results
Achieved:
The project was launched in December 2004, approx.five days of staff time
was required to develop the conversion rules, the pilot conversion was
confirmed
in January 2005, and the existing network is scheduled for completion
by
February 2005 to coincide with the start of Capital Works Planning.The
cost of not creating a twin presented a risk that the Physical Water
Network
with its increased level of detail would disable the asset management
and
capital planning activities.
Editor's
Comments:
What was impressive about this project was simply that the city
undertook
this project at all.Many cities of similar size and with similar
resources
have not undertaken modeling on this level of complexity.Toronto's 3D
surface and subsurface infrastructure models takes political commitment
and dedicated resources, both financial and technological.As
impressive,
the technology managers recognized that much of the work of the project
could be accomplished with Skelebrator, a $2,000 product by Haested
Methods,
a company acquired by Bentley.The city estimates that this software
solution
is "cheap" compared to the estimated cost of CAN $1.1 Million to create
and maintain a skeletonized network over the next 10 years.
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Utilities |
AEM Cremona SIT
AEMCR |
Company
Profile:
AEM Cremona is a consultant to the city of Cremona, Italy.
Project
Overview:
AEM manages several tasks for the city including utility networks, road
signals, transportation, waste collection, environment management.The
objective of this project was to have integrated tools capable to
effectively
reference a single database framework.
Results
Achieved:
The main benefit achieved in this project was improved business
process
management.AEM Cremona was able to improve the quality of services
internally
and to the city.The company solved interaction problems between
different
products, and they are now able to import, read and edit native data
from
different tools.
Editor's
Comments:
Even smaller cities can benefit from a more integrated spatial data
management
implementation.
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Well-trained
Organization |
Indiana DOT CAD
Training |
Company
Profile:
The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) has been using Bentley
products to create road designs and drawings since 1997.
Project
Overview:
INDOT has a significant investment in Bentley products.They also had a
major project that demanded significant and "trained" resources to
accomplish
the mission of the project.
Results
Achieved:
There are 15 different departments or functions at INDOT using various
Bentley products in a variety of ways to aid road planning, design,
construction
and maintenance processes.In the past, some of these functions used
different
software and file structures that complicated the flow of information
through the enterprise.INDOT needed an improved enterprise system to
manage
the flow of a project through planning, survey, land acquisition,
design
and construction, as well as the archiving of all design, construction
and maintenance information.To accomplish all of these objectives,
INDOT
and Bentley developed 10 workspaces and custom training classes.
Editor's
Comments:
The interesting fact here is that INDOT recognized the need to not only
standardize on software but recognized that standard training at the
same
time to the staff responsible for the project was necessary to maintain
a consistency to project maintenance.Having all team members train at
the same time on the same software allows them to obtain a knowledge
base
consistent with the goals of the project without the fragmentation of
personal
expertise and experience.
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