Infrastructure Life Cycle in GIS

Design

It allows creation of new infrastructure data for new civil works including grading, contouring, specifications, cross sections, design calculations, mass haul plans, environmental mitigation plans, and equipment staging. This includes integration with traditional design tools such as CAD and databases for new design capabilities.

Construction

It provides the mechanics and management for building new infrastructure including takeoffs; machine control; earth movement; intermediate construction, volume and material, and payment calculations; materials tracking; logistics; schedules; and traffic management.

Data Collection As-Built Surveying

GIS provides the tools to collect precise site data and document existing conditions. With as-built surveying infrastructure data, operators use defined, operational, industry-standard data models. As-built surveying with GIS technology permits the surveyor to deliver data into operational GIS, eliminating costly data conversion and reducing errors.

Operations/Maintenance

It models utility and infrastructure networks and integrates other related types of data such as raster images and CAD drawings. Spatial selection and display tools allow you to visualize scheduled work, ongoing activities, recurring maintenance problems, and historical information. The topological characteristics of a GIS database can support network tracing and can be used to analyze specific properties or services that may be impacted by such events as stoppages, main breaks, and drainage defects.