Background In 2014, the Hawaii Department of Transportation entered a Consent Decree with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State of Hawaii Department of Health agreeing to create a stormwater management plan. Part of...

For electric utility organizations, managing the risk of trees growing near power lines is a top operational expenditure (OpEx) item and often comes with significant financial and reputational risk. Transmission utilities must comply with rigorous...

After nearly 20 years of using Cityworks as an on-premises application, the City of Suffolk, Virginia, decided to transition to a cloud-based system. This move was prompted by the need to provide employees with a...

There may be no city in America that loves trees more than Philadelphia. More than 10 percent of Philadelphia’s land area—16 square miles—is home to the largest managed urban park system in the world. With...

Global Water Resources, Inc. operates and manages water, wastewater, and recycled water utilities for communities around Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona. They adopted the use of QR codes to help simplify workflows for field crews by...

Lauren Walcott is always seeking new ways to streamline work and maximize resourcesfor the City of Westminster, Colorado. She works as the infrastructure asset management coordinator for the Department of Public Works and Utilities, which...

The impact that trees have within our urban environments is often overlooked and underestimated. Trees not only bring beauty to our cities, they also improve a community’s overall health and well-being. Healthy urban canopies can...

Cityworks Respond informs decision making both in the office and field, by providing a GIS-centric experience that allows you to easily manage assets, create and track work orders, capture digital signatures for inspections and permitting,...

Whether it is a natural disaster or a pandemic, utilities and local governments have the ability to plan for and respond to emergencies more effectively and efficiently by using GIS intelligence. Cityworks and Esri provide...

Tackling infrastructure projects and ensuring future resilience is no small task. Public works projects are often laden with data, logistics, equipment, and supply inventory, and so forth, making it difficult to keep track of all...