Infrastructure & Asset Management
Building a Smarter, More Resilient Community
Your community’s infrastructure—from water lines and roads to signs and fire hydrants—is your most valuable physical asset. We provide the tools and expertise to help you move from paper maps and spreadsheets to a dynamic, digital inventory, enabling proactive maintenance, smarter planning, and more efficient operations.
Doing More with Less in Public Works
Public works and utility departments are under constant pressure to maintain aging infrastructure while facing tight budgets and limited staffing. Relying on outdated paper maps or incomplete digital records makes it difficult to track maintenance history, respond to failures efficiently, and make a data-driven case for capital improvement projects. Without a clear, centralized view of your assets, it’s nearly impossible to manage them proactively.
From Data Collection to Strategic Planning
Digital Asset Inventories
We create precise, centralized digital inventories of your critical assets, including water/sewer systems, storm drains, road signs, fire hydrants, and public facilities.
Field Data Collection & Verification
Our teams use high-accuracy GPS and UAVs (drones) to collect new data or field-verify the exact location and condition of your existing assets, ensuring your maps reflect reality.
Utility Mapping
We specialize in digitizing paper-based utility maps, transforming them into powerful, searchable GIS datasets that support maintenance, planning, and one-call compliance.
Capital Improvement Planning (CIP) Support
We provide the clear, authoritative data and maps you need to analyze asset conditions, prioritize repairs or replacements, and justify budget requests for your Capital Improvement Plan.
A Partnership That Maximizes Your Budget
As a university-based center, we offer a uniquely efficient model for asset management projects. Large-scale data collection and verification tasks are perfect opportunities for our “GIS Municipal Internship Program,” where talented students, under expert supervision, can conduct the fieldwork at a fraction of the cost of a private firm. This approach not only delivers an exceptional value but also provides an objective, university-vetted dataset you can use with confidence for planning and budgeting.
Digitizing for the Future
The Challenge: A local utility district was relying on decades-old paper maps to manage its water system. The records were fragile, difficult to update, and inaccessible to field crews, leading to inefficient maintenance and slow response times.
Our Partnership Solution: Through our GIS Municipal Internship Program, we partnered the utility with a dedicated student intern for a semester. The student worked under the supervision of our professional staff to systematically digitize the old paper maps and then use GPS to field-verify the locations of key assets like valves and hydrants.
The Result: For a minimal investment, the utility received a complete, accurate, and searchable digital inventory of its water system. Field crews can now access maps on their tablets, maintenance is easier to track, and the utility has a foundational dataset for future planning. The student gained invaluable, real-world experience, perfectly illustrating our dual mission of community service and education.
Take Control of Your Community’s Assets
Ready to move from reactive repairs to proactive management? Contact us for a no-cost consultation to discuss how a digital asset inventory can save you time, reduce costs, and help you plan for the future.