Environmental Engineering Case Study: Brown and Caldwell
公司规模
1,000+
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- Fulcrum
技术栈
- Mobile Technology
- GIS Mapping
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
技术
- 平台即服务 (PaaS) - 连接平台
适用行业
- 城市与自治市
- 公用事业
适用功能
- 物流运输
- 维护
用例
- 资产健康管理 (AHM)
- 远程资产管理
服务
- 系统集成
关于客户
Brown and Caldwell is an employee-owned, 100-percent environmental firm serving clients locally and globally. With a history rooted in water and wastewater engineering, the firm provides full-service delivery of engineering, scientific, consulting and construction services and all the essential ingredients® for a successful project and a standout experience. They work with water and wastewater agencies across the United States, and continue to seek out and use advanced technologies and cutting-edge tools to improve efficiency, reduce costs and increase accuracy to meet clients’ most pressing needs.
挑战
Brown and Caldwell, an environmental firm, works with water and wastewater agencies across the United States. They were seeking advanced technologies and tools to improve efficiency, reduce costs, and increase accuracy to meet clients’ most pressing needs. As utilities look to create more comprehensive inventories of their water and wastewater systems, mobile apps and tablet devices are being used to collect data and help build the foundation for robust asset management systems. In particular, the use of mobile apps and smart devices has proven to improve productivity for the geographical location, inspection, and assessment of wastewater collection systems. However, before the switch to mobile technology, the Brown and Caldwell team gathered historical data from record drawings into GIS and exported them to paper map books. Inspection crews would attempt to locate these structures. Paper forms were used to get collection condition information. More than 60,000 photos were taken using digital cameras. Another team of surveyors, both conventional and GPS-equipped, would follow to get to precise location and rim elevation of these structures. Areas that had been redeveloped or which contained new structures proved problematic for the two crews. Overall, project workflows were prone to disruption, and were large, complicated, and had intersecting tasks.
解决方案
Brown and Caldwell has employed mobile technology tools on a variety of projects, and has specifically used the Fulcrum platform on more than a dozen projects for large U.S. wastewater collection systems. One standout project includes work with DeKalb County, GA to locate and track the condition of their immense collection system assets. In the second phase of the project, the Brown and Caldwell team saw the chance to capture information more efficiently, and leverage advanced improvements in mobile technology. Working with Fulcrum, paper forms were transferred into a simplified, smooth mobile interface. Dots on a map book were now shown using the integrated GIS mapping, and photos were captured and automatically associated with their corresponding assets. Inspection crews could adjust manhole locations on the map as needed. These updated locations and the pictures stored within the app allowed the following survey crew to do their job more efficiently. Crews could work without needing mobile connectivity, taking advantage of Fulcrum’s offline data collection and syncing capabilities. No paper forms meant no data transcription was required, and there were fewer possibilities for errors. Most importantly, all of the data was stored in one location, accessible to the entire project team.
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