Imagine a single view of the planned works in your city. One big map showing multiple contractors’ projects and events, as well as important context like parking zones, cultural sites, assets and haulage routes. One shared map, calendar and contact book to help people plan infrastructure work with and around each other.
And that’s the National Forward Works Viewer.
There’s so many benefits, including:
We work with you to identify the right data, and how you’d like to load it into the NFWV. This can be done by an automatic feed (API), bulk uploads, or manual inputs to the tool.
We’ll help to onboard your organisation – as well as any external stakeholders you’d like to collaborate with.
Once you’re all set up, you’ll have unlimited access to the NFWV and ongoing support from our technical services helpdesk.
Powerful search function
There are lots of ways to search for projects and events in the NFWV. You can either navigate around the map, use the search feature, check your organisation’s project list – or draw a custom boundary of interest that you would like to check for activity.
Watchlists, dashboards and notifications
Save your searches so they can easily be run again – or turn them into watchlists. View your saved search watchlists in one easy dashboard. Add notifications to receive email updates every time a new project is added to your watchlisted area.
Project information
Clicking on a project will show you the project dates, a description of the work, and contact details of the project manager.
Stages and impacts
Set up a single project or break it into many stages – each with its own boundaries, dates, and traffic impacts.
Clashes
The NFWV will identify any existing projects that ‘clash’ with the location and timing you’re planning to carry out work. Here’s where having project contact details comes in very handy.
Opportunities
On the flip side of clashes, are opportunities. This includes any projects happening in the same place at a different time. Why not coordinate? It’s an opportunity to sequence your projects so you save time and money by digging once, sharing a trench, or a traffic management plan.
We work with you to identify the right data, and how you’d like to load it into the NFWV. This can be done via regular emails, an automatic feed, or manual upload.
We’ll help to onboard your organisation – as well as any external stakeholders you’d like to collaborate with.
Once you’re all set up, you’ll have unlimited access to the NFWV and ongoing support from our technical services helpdesk.
Powerful search function
There are lots of ways to search for projects and events in the NFWV. You can either navigate around the map, use the search feature, check your organisation’s project list – or draw a custom boundary of interest that you would like to check for activity.
Watchlists, dashboards and notifications
Save your searches so they can easily be run again – or turn them into watchlists. View your saved search watchlists in one easy dashboard. Add notifications to receive email updates every time a new project is added to your watchlisted area.
Project information
Clicking on a project will show you the project dates, a description of the work, and contact details of the project manager.
Stages and impacts
Set up a single project or break it into many stages – each with its own boundaries, dates, and traffic impacts.
Clashes
The NFWV will identify any existing projects that ‘clash’ with the location and timing you’re planning to carry out work. Here’s where having project contact details comes in very handy.
Opportunities
On the flip side of clashes, are opportunities. This includes any projects happening in the same place at a different time. Why not coordinate? It’s an opportunity to sequence your projects so you save time and money by digging once, sharing a trench, or a traffic management plan.
Multiple organisations carrying out infrastructure upgrades on an important connector route in Auckland banded together to use the NFWV to help coordinate their works, reducing public disruption by sharing their trenching – and saving $460k in the process.
With many projects planned over several months on one of Wellington’s critical connector routes, collaboration and coordination through the NFWV was key to minimising public disruption – ensuring parliament could function and businesses were not impacted.
The 2015 Christchurch Marathon route was set to pass the Christchurch Central Police Station, which was due for demolition that same morning. The clash was caught in the NFWV, with demolition rescheduled for public safety.
Built in response to the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes, the NFWV was developed with input from LINZ (Land Information New Zealand), CERA (the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority), CCDU (the Christchurch Central Development Unit), CTOC (the Christchurch Transport Operations Centre) and SCIRT (the Stronger Canterbury Infrastructure Rebuild Team) with the aim of creating a single, integrated view of forward works activity and projects.
This allowed the multiple agencies working on the Christchurch rebuild to coordinate works more efficiently, while minimising the impact on businesses and the public.
It was a success – saving an estimated $ 13.3 million over 18 months after its initial rollout through reduced clashes, shared trenching and road works, as well as improved customer satisfaction, enabling easier event planning and improving contractor relations.
Since then, it’s been adopted as business-as-usual by Christchurch City Council, Auckland Transport, Wellington City Council and Queenstown Lakes District Council – with more organisations onboarded every day.
If you’d like to jump on board and implement the viewer in your region, contact us at info@forwardworks.co.nz and we’ll start the ball rolling.
Just want to see what’s on there? Get View Only access by signing up here and selecting ‘Business User’. Please note you must work for a company related to projects or infrastructure.
