Water and Effluent Treatment Magazine
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10 WET NEWS OCTOBER 2015 B ristol Water, the water sup- ply company responsible for providing water to 1.2 million consumers in and around the Bristol area, needed a way to help it monitor its per- formance and meet increasing challenges presented by the UK's Traffic Management Act (TMA). With the help of Bently, Bristol Water developed an Exor Information Manager-based solution that provides high-level aggregate executive informa- tion, monthly performance reports, and manages noticing and street works activities. This enabled a significant reduction in the administrative burden of reporting, a reduction in street works fines, provided greater visibility of performance, and allowed them to easily meet legislation requirements. The TMA required UK utilities to register additional street works, and also changed notices to be based on the length of occupation of the road or highway, thus increasing not only the number of notices, but the complexity of noticing requirements. Of equal concern to Bristol Water and other utilities are the potential fines and penalties the TMA introduced. With fixed penalty notices, street works promoters can be fined up to £120 for each breach of noticing requirements. Given that Bristol Water produces 70,000-plus notices a year, this greatly increased their exposure to financial risk. To overcome these challenges Bristol Water needed a solution that would help improve day-to- day noticing management and provide accurate reporting for • When Bristol Water needed a solution to its labour intensive street works information, the answer lay in Bentley Systems' Exor Information Manager. Taking penalties out of traffic management ONSITE TRaffIC ManagEMEnT internal and external stakeholders, while being flexible enough to accommodate future needs. Streamline In early 2008, when the TMA came into effect, Bristol Water's collection of street works information was labour intensive and o'en incomplete, with much of the requirements generated manually. Street works data was stored in numerous different systems, which made it difficult to extract. As well as being incomplete, data was o'en out of date, which made accurate reporting a challenge. Lastly, Bristol needed a way to help evaluate business performance as well. Bristol Water's street works and partnership manager, Simon Bennett, explains: "With ProjEcT SPEcS • Implement a custom solution for reporting and managing street works, updating data to meet government requirements, and avoid fines • Capture and share comprehensive quality data for street works noticing • Providfe gIS-based information on the internet for viewing street works in the local area TEchkNoW • Improves operational efficiency • Provides tighter fiscal control • Extends the asset lifecycle through better asset management information • Reduces operational costs • Supports government, federal, and local funding initiatives to increase funding revenues • Lowers cost and risk of regulatory compliance through public transparency of data and processes Bristol Water is achieving greater visibility as a result of the Exor Information Manager's executive dashboard. The system also helps Bristol Water to provide more than 50 required monthly reports to the nJUg. It is also providing the company with full visibility of the current state of its infrastructure. Bristol Water produces more than 70,000 notices a year, greatly increasing its exposure to financial risk