DESIGN,ENGINEERING TECH,CONSTRUCTION
Statens vegvesen - Norwegian Public Roads Administration | January 17, 2023
The Norwegian Public Roads Administration (NPRA) recently selected Trimble's AgileAssets, an infrastructure enterprise asset management software to maintain, manage, and operate the country's 10,600-kilometer road network and related transportation infrastructure. The software complements Trimble's Quadri®, a building information modeling (BIM) collaboration solution, which utilizes cloud technology that the NPRA already employs for construction projects.
As Norway's road network becomes more complex, the combination of Trimble's Quadri and AgileAssets, will empower NPRA to meet the increasing demands by leveraging connected data to improve asset lifecycle performance, from conception and building to operations and maintenance.
Bjørn Laksforsmo, division director at NPRA, states, "Trimble has been heavily involved in the road design and construction process in Norway for years and is a trusted partner in our digital transformation." He added, "Efficiently maintaining our road network and related assets is critical for keeping our citizens safe, maximizing the benefits from our infrastructure investments and meeting the country's evolving mobility needs. With a holistic, lifecycle view of assets and as-built data, we can more efficiently perform preventive maintenance and make better-informed decisions for all of our assets as we plan for the future."
(Source – PR Newswire)
NPRA’s asset lifecycle management requirement is based on the necessity that all new projects utilize constructible models and a shared data environment. To improve the flow of real-time data across project stakeholders, NPRA started using Trimble's Quadri, which offered constructible models as well as object-based common data environment. Using Trimble's AgileAssets to extend that data to the maintenance and operations phases will provide NPRA with a holistic view of assets, offering a better picture of road objects and conditions for more precise diagnosis and faster maintenance.
Integrating Trimble's common data environment and asset management software will also increase the usefulness and accuracy of data throughout the asset's lifecycle, resulting in greater predictability, sustainability, and lower lifetime costs and informing future expansion and improvement decisions.
About Statens vegvesen - Norwegian Public Roads Administration
Founded in 1864, the Norwegian Public Roads Administration oversees the planning, construction, and operation of the county and national road networks, as well as vehicle inspection, driver training, and licensing. The Public Roads Administration is led by the Directorate of Public Roads, an autonomous body under the Ministry of Transport and Communication.
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PERSPECTIVES, CONSTRUCTION
GastingerWalker& | March 03, 2023
HFW Companies recently joined GastingerWalker&, a Kansas City, based architectural firm, as its sixth strategic expansion partner, in its ongoing effort to develop a nationally focused ‘House of Brands’ in the architecture and engineering (AE) business.
Kevin Harden, AIA, NCARB, managing partner of GastingerWalker& said, "We're excited about being in a collaboration among a family of firms, and we're looking forward to seeing how this partnership becomes an even greater asset for all of us." He added, "This collaboration allows us to be a design leader, pushing all aspects of design and the value of good design. We expect great opportunities ahead to grow in the firm's leadership and in our profession."
(Source – BusinessWire)
Michael Hein, AIA, PMP, also the CEO of HFW, said, "We're excited because GastingerWalker& brings to this partnership a solid brand legacy, strong leadership, talented people with unique design expertise, and a long list of regional and national clients that already give the firm a national footprint." He further added, "Perhaps most impressive is that more than 85 percent of the firm's business comes from countless new projects with repeat clients. We're looking forward to the profitable synergies they bring into our growing network of HFW Partner firms."
(Source – BusinessWire)
GastingerWalker&, completing its 42nd year of business, employs 55 experts in Kansas City and Chicago and is licensed to operate in 45 states. This was possible due to national customers like AMC Theatres, SunLife Financial, Amsurg America, Allstate Insurance Company, and Spectrum Retirement Communities.
The firm provides architectural, interior design, construction management, space planning, and historic rehabilitation through its Live, Work, Learn, Heal, and Play sectors. HFW CEO Michael Hein calls the new expansion partner a strategic fit for HFW's ‘House of Brands’ concept. It is a concept where, a network of growth-oriented AE companies share best practices, strong design focus, economies of scale, unique areas of expertise, and other synergies while continuing to establish their own legacy brands regionally and beyond.
About GastingerWalker&
GastingerWalker&, founded in 1981, and headquartered in Kansas City, is a varied group of devoted, smart, and passionate architects and designers. The firm takes an approach to design that considers all project components as integral to the whole. From building systems and consumer needs to appeal settings and an optimistic sense of place, architects and interior designers work together to understand clients' projects.
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ENGINEERING TECH
Peacock Engineering Ltd | February 10, 2023
On February 9, 2023, Peacock Engineering Ltd, a leading Enterprise Asset Management provider, announced a new data management solution, MX+ Data Studio, to assist clients in streamlining their data management strategies, saving time, reducing costs, and improving data reporting accuracy and compliance.
Digital transformation continues to be one of the most critical investment areas for British firms, with studies indicating that organizations and enterprises across all industries and sectors will invest about $150 billion by 2030. Another report from a global technology intelligence firm, which evaluated organizations working in pharmaceuticals, FMCG manufacturing, chemicals, steel production, and the mining, oil and gas sectors, also outlined that digital technologies, such as data analytics and automation, are crucial to assisting enterprises overcome significant pressures.
Poor data quality as a result of human error, duplication, and erroneous entry is projected to cost UK firms 10% - 30% of revenue. It can raise maintenance costs for organizations and enterprises that operate complex assets and facilities, including poor workflow management, wasted field visits, and maintenance scheduling. Other negative impacts include more first-time fix failures, a decrease in asset longevity, poor asset performance and availability and, potentially, an inability to fulfill regulatory compliance.
Peacock Engineering provides digital asset management solutions to some of the leading energy and utility, pharmaceutical, transportation and logistics, and manufacturing companies in the United Kingdom. MX+ Data Studio, the company's new data management solution, works exclusively with IBM Maximo and IBM Maximo Application Suite (MAS) and is intended to make data management more straightforward and cost-efficient, altering clients' capacities to produce value via their EAM solution.
MX+ Data Studio, a role-based, scalable data management solution, will enable businesses to benefit from better, secure data capture capabilities by reducing costly human error and duplication. The application's advanced data analysis technology reveals faults and prevents data upload until anomalies are fixed, thereby enabling a smoother, quicker upload to EAM systems while maintaining data quality. In addition, the application will help deliver purer EAM strategies by improving data capture and faster, more accurate data uploads, giving organizations a more detailed, richer view of their asset bases, increasing first-time fix rates, assisting in enhancing workload and maintenance scheduling, better meeting regulatory compliance, and improving data validation standards.
About Peacock Engineering Ltd
Founded in 2009, Peacock Engineering Ltd is a renowned asset management consulting firm and the only Maximo consultancy to provide an end-to-end solution that incorporates asset management, scheduling, task management, and mobility. Its team expertise allows clients to see a concrete return on investment that dramatically improves asset performance, saves time, lowers whole-life costs, and promotes worker productivity. The company also collaborates with clients to give the best solution possible, from system and process design to delivery and implementation, hosting, and support.
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