Managing Your Facility Remotely As facility managers navigate the vastly different landscape filled with challenges brought on by the pandemic, it’s important to have the right tools in their proverbial toolboxes. What [...]
Setting Filters Gives Insights into Your Assets As part of the latest release of UVARA, new asset filtering functions were added to the map module. These functions provide the user [...]
Reducing Damage to Underground Utility Infrastructure During Excavation A recent white paper unveils the danger and the financial cost of hitting underground infrastructure during excavations. The paper, prepared by Geoff Zeiss and [...]
Technology is evolving rapidly especially in the area of IoT and asset management. In this report by McKinsey & Company, highlights the value of new technology in reducing costs and prioritizing labor. [...]
Every facility owner, operator, manager, and insurer understands that a constant challenge is to balance the risk of future breakdowns and potential calamity with the associated cost of minimizing that risk. Find [...]
The latest release of UVARA is now available, and we are excited to share it with the world. This release provides a series of upgrades that includes a more robust [...]
Cypress Lawn Cemetery Association Cypress Lawn Cemetery Association has a long rich history dating back when California first began. However, it also has an important recent history of improvements, [...]
Re-insurance broker Aon has entered into a strategic alliance with UVARATM (formerly BetterGIS), an end-to-end asset mapping and management solution, to help architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industries across the globe better manage risks. [...]
Addressing The Needs Of Clients One of the greatest challenges for owners, operators and managers of utility infrastructure is designing, building and operating facilities in an information vacuum. Organizations need to know [...]
April 10, 2019 DURHAM, N.C. -- A gas explosion killed 1 person and injured 17 others, including a Durham firefighter, in downtown Durham on Wednesday. Durham Mayor Steve Schewel pointed out [...]
Senior Finance Executive and Venture Investor Joins Growing Team NOVATO, CA – April 4, 2019 – UVARA, an innovator in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications, today announced that James Rodisch, an [...]
“Project Closeout.” “Building Turnover.” “Transition.” “Contractor Hand-off.” Original article published by Construction Executive No matter what it’s called, moving out of the construction phase into facility operations is one [...]
What’s the best way to budget, design and operate utility and facility infrastructure? How do you retain precious institutional memory before your most knowledgeable people retire? Answer: A next-generation [...]
Is now the time for utility locators to integrate Geographic Information System (GIS) into their best practices? With the price of GIS falling significantly and ease-of-use improving dramatically, there’s a [...]
BetterGIS Launches Its Powerful New Platform Nationwide, Offers Expanded Capabilities to Manage Utility and Facility Infrastructure Streamlined Geographic Information System (GIS) is Easiest and Most Cost-Effective Way to Design, Plan, Build [...]
Skyline College Skyline College is one of three community colleges in the San Mateo County Community College District. It opened in 1969, and construction began in 1971 on its [...]
Cañada College Established in 1968, Canada College is part of the San Mateo Community College District located near Redwood City, California. Located on 132 acres in the heart of [...]
According to an official with CenterPoint Energy, a construction crew was working when they hit a natural gas line around 9:30 a.m near Kilgore College. Several buildings on the east side of [...]
A construction crew struck a gas line causing a leak on the American University campus Wednesday morning. There were no reports of injuries. The leak led to building evacuations and road closures [...]
Texas A&M University has discovered a sewage leak on campus that apparently began in 2017, university officials announced Wednesday. A sanitary sewer line from Whitely Hall had been improperly connected to a [...]
