Smarter Planning Perth – a collaborative technology platform that helps to minimise roadworks disruption – has won the Spatial Enablement Award at the 2018 Asia Pacific Spatial Excellence Awards in Adelaide this week.
The Smarter Planning Perth platform, from Esri Australia, provides a visual representation of scheduled works from multiple agencies allowing them to come together to plan, schedule, and collaborate on project work, saving time and cutting costs.
ATCO Gas Australia, City of Perth, Main Roads Western Australia, Water Corporation and Western Power are among the initial partners in the program, with more councils, utilities and agencies expected to enable this sort of technology within their organisations across the country.
Esri Australia’s managing director, Brett Bundock said Smarter Planning Perth is an intuitive smart-city solution that is easy for organisations to implement and delivers benefits whole communities will see.
“This sort of Australian inventive spatial thinking is revolutionising business processes and radically improving communication and collaboration between organisations that previously may not have worked this closely together,” he said.
President of ATCO Gas Australia Pat Donovan said Smarter Planning Perth builds upon ATCO’s already collaborative approach to works around the Perth metropolitan area and would result in savings for customers.
He estimated a collaborative effort with Water Corporation to replace gas and water pipes at the same time on Rokeby Road in Subiaco slashed the cost of the gas project by thirty per cent.
“Our experiences have shown that there are significant benefits that flow to all parties,” he said.
“Coordinating our schedules has enabled us to reduce the amount of time on site, and also remove and reduce redundant duplication of effort.
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