Jon Siskind, jsiskind@bownegroup.com
(516) 746-2350 ext. 1504

May 2003
Mineola, New York
 
 

Bowne AE&T Group Builds Web-Based Project Management Tools For U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers

The Bowne AE&T Group has developed a suite of web-based tools that automate the project management workflow process for the United States Army Corps of Engineers, New York District Operations Division. These tools were developed as part of Sidney B. Bowne & Son’s contract with the Corps of Engineers.

A major responsibility of the Operations Division is management of the maintenance dredging program in the New York District. With many complex dredging projects to manage simultaneously, project managers needed a tool to track all phases of the project life cycle including planning, obtaining environmental clearances and permits, preparing plans and specifications, contracting, dredging oversight, and determination of the water depths available in the channel for navigation.

Bowne created the Integrated Spatial Data System (ISDS), a web-based environment encompassing:

• A rules-based workflow application that allows project managers to develop and track project plans and to assess overall program execution and efficiency. The system also provides automatic alerts to responsible individuals to initiate next steps and facilitate approvals
  
• An application that displays images of navigation areas and provides access to condition surveys, specification surveys, hand-written dredging records, and historical survey data
  
• Links to the databases of survey control information, channel dimensions and historic harborline maps

By automating a formerly paper-based process, improving information sharing, and heightening awareness of problems, the new system has greatly improved project management effectiveness within the New York District Operations Division.

About The Bowne AE&T Group

The Bowne AE&T Group provides superior architectural, engineering and technology services to the public and private sectors. The Bowne companies – Sidney B. Bowne & Son LLP, Bowne Management Systems, Inc. and RouteSmart Technologies, Inc. – lead the way in architecture/engineering, IT/GIS solutions and route optimization software. Bowne AE&T Group has offices in Mineola and Smithtown, NY; Columbia, MD; New Orleans, LA; and Atlanta, GA. Visit www.bownegroup.com on the Internet.

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