There are many agencies and associated delivery partners who have competing interests in public road reserves for the construction and maintenance of public roads, amenities, and utilities as essential infrastructure for our communities. The activities involved in the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of this infrastructure are sometimes discrete, fragmented, and uncoordinated. The byproducts of executing uncoordinated and incorrectly sequenced construction and maintenance activities are:
- multiple and independent road openings
- Unnecessary road closures and disruptions to road users, businesses and community
- Additional infrastructure costs and wasted resources
- Road assets not achieving their intended life
- Increased WH&S risks
- Loss of utility and council reputation, increased customer complaints
For many years our community has been dissatisfied with streets being dug up multiple times by different agencies within a relatively short period of time. In many instances roads are dug up within weeks and months of the road re-sheeting or pavement installation.
Lack of communication and transparency across multiple agencies has prevented collaboration and capitalisation on synergies between them. Now with spatially enabled technology, the development of iWORCS changes the landscape. Through iWORCS, all agencies can now have visibility of planned works, and be continually informed of new opportunities for collaboration.
iWORCS is an automated web-based spatially enabled platform that provides visibility of planned works. It identifies common areas of interest and notifies the relevant parties of any collaboration opportunities. IWORCS offers opportunity to improved project schedule dates, improve inter-agency communication extend road asset life and provide savings. iWORCS is the current best practice approach to coordinating infrastructure works for the benefit of the community.