PRESS RELEASE
POWER Engineers awarded contract for Urban Forestry Management at Philadelphia
HAILEY, Idaho (November 13, 2012) - POWER Engineers announced a contract
awarded by the city of Philadelphia for the implementation of Cityworks for
urban forestry management. In this multi-phased project, Cityworks will provide
an expandable tool for both spatial management and decision-making regarding
the urban forest as well as the tracking of costs and activities per tree
asset. This initiative meets a strategic objective of the Parks and Recreation
Dept. to "implement a national model for Natural Resource and Urban Forest
Management." As Mark Focht, First Deputy Commissioner for Parks and Recreation
stated, "The department is looking forward to the benefits and efficiencies
that implementing Cityworks can provide. A spatially based system that can
provide real-time updates and keep staff in the field and not behind a desk is
the most effective way to manage forestry assets. We're also extremely pleased
to be working with a firm such as POWER Engineers on this project, a firm with
quality experience implementing Cityworks for urban forestry."
POWER's Senior Project Manager located in our Philadelphia office, Peter Godfrey
stated, "This effort dates back to 1999 when the former Fairmount Park
Commission recognized the need for a spatially based asset management system
for the city's street and park trees. Building on previously gathered
information and earlier relationships established, we look forward to a truly
collaborative effort between POWER, our partners on this project, and the City.
We will be leveraging lessons learned and new technology to configure and
deploy a system that will result in measurable operational and planning
efficiencies, as well as be a model of established Urban Forestry best
management practices benefitting the City and its residents."
The initial phase of the project begins with an analysis of the business
workflow and definition of the functional requirements for urban tree
management that includes an estimated inventory of over 1.2 million Street and
Park tree assets. POWER has teamed with Azteca Systems for Cityworks software;
geographIT for sub-contracting services and Photo Science for inventory capture
services. POWER, an Azteca Systems Platinum Business Partner with over 30
Cityworks clients, has deep experience in developing and implementing Cityworks
solutions.
POWER's team will provide the following services for the initial phase:
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Project Management and Implementation Planning
Business Process Analysis and Requirements Gathering
Spatial Data Model
Inventory Capture Methodology
Cityworks System Configuration Specifications
System Architecture
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About City of Philadelphia
Established in 1701, the city of Philadelphia is the nation's 5th largest city
and the birthplace of America. The City has a population of over 1.5 million
and contains the largest managed urban park system in the world, Fairmount
Park, comprising over 10% of the City's land area, a full 14 square miles.
Philadelphia currently has an estimated 135,000 street trees, all managed by
the Department of Parks and Recreation. Moving forward with Mayor Michael
Nutter's plan to make Philadelphia the greenest and most sustainable city in
America, the City is currently in the process of planting 300,000 new trees by
2015 toward its goal of 30% urban tree canopy by 2025.
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