Moving from the 18th to the 21st Century

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Moving from the 18th to the 21st Century

Ben O’Regan, Asset Engineer

Bathurst Regional Council (NSW)

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Bathurst Regional Council

Result of 2004 Amalgamation of Bathurst City and Evans Shire

Councils

Population of LGA 41,051 (54,271 at track on Bathurst 1000 race day)

Average winter min 1°C, summer max 27°C

Elevation 670m, Mt Panorama 871m, Mt Horrible 1204m

Agriculture, education, food processing, mapping, timber and pet

food manufacturing

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Where is Bathurst Regional LGA?

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How we use Confirm/ConfirmConnect

Asset classes in Confirm:• Roads, Bridges/Culverts, Footpaths, Kerb & Gutter, Drainage, Trees,

Parks, Playgrounds, Aerodrome, Buildings/Structures, Flood mitigation,

Other Structures, Land Improvements, Leases, Art collection, Water &

Sewer Systems

Of these, we use ConfirmConnect to Condition/Defect inspect:

Roads (Rural / Urban pavement)

Footpaths

Parks/Playgrounds

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Business Problem

Following a review of BRC’s asset management processes and

procedures, by NSW TCorp (Treasury) it was shown that a more

robust method of managing (particularly road) asset maintenance

recording was required

This was the only area required for improvement

Parks and Recreation section wanted to move away from a paper-

based (and laborious) inspection process

It was determined that ConfirmConnect would be the tool to solve

both issues

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In short, we had to go from using 18th to 21st Century technology




Thinking also had to change…

Both images show accepted 18th Century medical procedures

undertaken without anesthetic… perfectly acceptable for the time



The Solution

The plan is to use ConfirmConnect to carry out regular

inspections (this is already in place for footpath and parks)

Jobs created will then be assigned to a crew who will receive the

task on a tablet (trialling this with an external contractor)

So far, only a small rollout, but expect to have 6 ‘inspectors’

(including supervisors) and 12 crews


Bumps in the road

Looking forward to getting our own GIS data into ConfirmConnect

Trial of using map tiles hasn’t produced the result we were hoping

for

Working on GIS/IT to set up tile server


What we’d hoped for vs what we got


Where we are now: inspections


Where we are now: jobs


Where we are now: jobs


Our wishlist

A way to visualise features using existing GIS data

Multiple layer capability (or a way to assign groups of layers to a

view, eg water/sewer/drainage)

A ‘middle ground’ cross between the Field Usability of

ConfirmConnect and attribute richness of Confirm Desktop+GIS

Looking forward to ongoing rapid development response achieved

by support team to date


Questions?