INEIGHT CASE STUDY:
WSP AUSTRALIA
DELIVERING INFORMATION WITHIN A GEOSPATIAL CONTEXT
As one of the three members of the D4C JV in Australia, WSP is providing design, construction, network maintenance and facilities maintenance services for all of Sydney Water’s assets in the Southern Region, within the utility company’s Partnering for Success (P4S) initiative. To support the 10-year engagement, WSP worked to demonstrate the value of a single standardised project controls solution to its consortium partners.
Henry Okraglik, Global Director Digital for WSP in Australia, explains: “Alliance delivery models are becoming more and more common, because mega programs simply can’t access the breadth of services and depth of experience they need through a single provider. When you put together an alliance like D4C, the first thing you must address is your project controls, and what tends to happen is that you end up with a suboptimal patchwork of each company’s preferred tools and approaches.”
As D4C was starting from a blank sheet of paper, with no legacy systems to take into account, the JV asked itself: what’s the best way of getting the right information to the right people in a way that allows them to focus on performing their work?
“As a critical element in the overall systems architecture for our joint venture, we built D4C Create and integrated it with all of Sydney Water’s key systems,” says Okraglik. “InEight Document is the core of the solution, giving our people the power to rapidly find the information they need within the geospatial context of their projects.”
TAKING AN AGILE APPROACH
Throughout the length of the partnering contract, D4C expects to deliver around AU$300 million of work annually to Sydney Water, Australia’s largest water utility. The consortium has over 500 employees and covers assets across an area of 12,700 square kilometres, ultimately serving five million customers. “The senior leaders within the consortium had experienced the pitfalls of piecing together legacy systems from parent companies, so it was easy to get their buy-in for starting from scratch,” says Okraglik. “So that we could get up and running within just six months, we decided to launch as a minimum viable product and then incrementally develop our capabilities. That also made sense in the business context: this was three companies coming together to do something that Sydney Water had never done before. Our approach was: put in the skeleton of what we need, then be agile, learn and adapt over time.”
“D4C Create makes it fast and easy to find what you need, when you need it.”
-Henry Okraglik, Global Director Digital for WSP in Australia