Shrinking budgets and increasing community demands for higher services levels with fewer people and resources is impacting on all governments. Keeping up with infrastructure demands, in particular taking a strategic approach to maintenance planning, including the ultimate replacement of that road, footpath or community facility, requires state of the art geospatial technology.
To complete its suite of products, Autodesk the global provider of infrastructure design and management software, has recently acquired C-Plan, a Swiss company specialising in the streamlining and management of spatial data.
Andy Ramm, Autodesk’s Senior Manager Infrastructure Solutions, was in Australia in November to speak to user groups about the importance of extending the value of spatial data so it is accessible at all times from a central repository from capture to planning, design, construction, rehabilitation and through to demolition.
“We have developed an affordable and scalable product to suit Local Governments of all sizes whether they service 500,000 residents or are tiny municipalities,” Andy Ramm said.
“In the private sector whole departments are dedicated to geospatial technology, so no matter how much data they are collecting Councils need a simple system to store, manage and access this when and wherever they need it. Accurate data that can be quickly deployed saves money at every stage of workflow in public works, transportation, civil engineering or for utilities.”
He said that in the United States, to gain Federal funding for infrastructure, Local Governments are now required to report back on how their build assets are being maintained.
With our own Federal Government recently introducing a strategic component to Roads to Recovery Two, Councils with accurate, accessible data on the state of their infrastructure and workflow management will be best placed to make the most of such funding.
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