geospatiaL Water resource management
This category features projects that demonstrate the innovative
and creative use of Bentley technology to plan, design,
manage, or model water, sewer, or storm networks.
Infrastructure Integration of Mega City — Istanbul isKi genel mudurlugu WINNER
In water and sewerage system management, most
activity is related to geographical references. The
ISKABIS projects’ goal was to provide an effective
means for users to access, display, and print the
engineering and managerial data generated by
the Istanbul Water and Sewerage Authority.
By applying a file-server approach and using a
powerful CAD application, together with a VBA
application to manage the files inside the CAD
environment, users now have access to, and can
easily share among departments, as-builts, city
infrastructure maps, and other related engineering
data sets such as maps, rasters, and other
documents.
Each department within ISKI — mapping, GIS,
water projects, and sewer projects — has control
and rights over a certain set of data and updates
only its folders on the server. All departments can
use the data as needed, and virtually all data in
the system is 3D. Water, wastewater, and stormwater as-built information is entered in 3D.
Engineers have started to draw facilities such as
treatment plants, storage tanks, and buildings in 3D.
The new system was developed using
MicroStation, MicroStation GeoGraphics,
MicroStation PowerDraft, Bentley Water,
Bentley Wastewater, Bentley Descartes,
and InRoads Site. It features more than 30
applications designed to help users access
server data, which include tools for map
management, infrastructure management,
address query, building query, project
management, and printing. New applications
can be added when needed or requested
by users.
Using the ISKABIS system, the Istanbul Water
and Sewerage Authority recorded significant
reductions of 40 to 90 percent in spending
on blueprints, photocopies, and couriers. In
addition, the time to retrieve information about
pipe and valve locations needed for repair
work dropped from eight hours per document
to 30 minutes per document. In 2006, the
authority processed 2,246 documents related
to infrastructure queries.
