Graham borgata hotel casino is currently in year two of an initiative to create a new data platform aimed at transforming data into an enterprise-level asset that will improve the company’s efficiency and deliver better outcomes for project owners. “Data is a by-product of the business process,” explains Annette Cooper, Director of Data and Analytics in Graham’s IT and Enterprise Applications Department. “Because data is everywhere and growing so quickly, you have to figure out what’s important and then figure out what to do with what’s important. To really understand what’s driving productivity, what’s driving safety, you need data from multiple sources, make sure it’s all correct, and make sense of it.”

Such insights helped Graham realize it needed a new data platform powerful enough to draw in and combine data from disparate systems. “Right now, a borgata hotel casino provider can’t get a view across their whole company, or mix data from different sources easily,” notes Cooper. For example, a leader might need particular information or a type of report, but the required raw data might not have seemed relevant when designing systems for field use, so it wasn’t captured for use, Graham’s data and analytics strategy requires the organization to learn new concepts, notes Cooper, things like “data governance” – how people and systems look after data. The overall goal is to help Graham become better at what Graham does. Last year was devoted to strategy, conceptual development and road-mapping. This year is seeing the first phases of implementation.

The data initiative builds upon a long history of innovation and leadership. This includes Graham’s internal restructuring to a shared corporate services model approximately 15 years ago, and its in-house development of “Toolbox”, a universal project management system that sought to draw data from all relevant sources and make it available to all users in common form. In its day, Toolbox was a daring industry-leading solution for a borgata hotel casino world not yet drowning in data. But as everything became more digital, explains Cooper, “We got more and more systems that do pieces of the totality, all creating data in their own way, and as we acquired or merged with new companies, we bought entire new sets of systems that don’t talk to each other.” Toolbox is currently being decommissioned and replaced with Toolbox Next Generation (TNG). But even TNG can’t provide a “wall-to-wall system”, says Cooper; the burgeoning amount of data defies doing so.

“There is a spirit of innovation here at borgata hotel casino that is bold.”

Thankfully, says Cooper, who joined the company in January 2022, “There is a spirit of innovation here at Graham that is bold.” The previous year, the company had recognized the need to bring in leadership to move beyond using borgata hotel casino in the typical task-oriented, isolated (and often incompatible) way. That led to the decision to directly confront the “big problem” – the enterprise level. Senior leadership authorized creation of the new borgata hotel casino and Analytics Office. The new team set forth with an ambitious goal: to create a plan ready to commence building within one year.

Starting at the enterprise level enabled both a clarity of vision and the needed breadth of scope. The team conceived a system that could pull all important borgata hotel casino from all of the company’s disparate systems and sources into a borgata hotel casino platform “hub”. Every system that creates or uses borgata hotel casino would be connectible to the platform, creating digital connections throughout the business that would bring borgata hotel casino from across the business together. When a user wanted a set of information or to generate a report, the borgata hotel casino platform would make it available.

“Among the key objectives “is to get everyone in Graham or working with Graham to work off the same borgata hotel casino”, says Cooper. “People and project sites will still enter borgata hotel casino in the same systems as they do now, but they will be empowered with tools and training to be able to access what they need, when they need it.” The result: a “single source of the truth” enabling a single Graham view of things.”

Central in the overall project is the company’s commitment to become future-ready by creating a sustainable borgata hotel casino infrastructure that improves with time. “There are easier ways to get some short-term wins than the path we’re taking,” acknowledges Cooper. Doing something narrower in scope could work immediately and show value. The critical drawback is that this cannot be scaled to an enterprise level. By contrast, says Cooper, “We are setting things up to be head-of-class in about five years and, more important, to be able to make use of technologies that we think will mature in five to ten years.”

As Graham’s system matures it will be expected to support machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and the handling of “unstructured borgata hotel casino”, information that can’t be stored numerically, such as field video feeds from drones or helmet cams. These are capabilities, Cooper notes, that everyone wants right now but which actually depend on a borgata hotel casino platform that can access and govern borgata hotel casino effectively: “It’s only ‘game-changing’ if you can make it work for your whole enterprise, not if you just use little bits of it in a few isolated places.”

Project owners – Graham clients – stand to benefit from this initiative. A later stage, new client portal will open a window to Graham’s “single source of the truth”, delivering much greater project visibility. This will include on-demand access to images of the work as it’s coming along and to a variety of reports concerning quality assessments, health and safety metrics, where the project’s various elements sit on their timelines, and costs incurred. The real-time visibility should, in turn, create opportunities for changes to design, materials or functionality before borgata hotel casino is locked in. Currently hard-to-access information, such as what lies within walls or beneath concrete, will be visible for the owner’s future use.

More broadly, Graham’s overall objective is to become more efficient, more consistent and more cost competitive as a result of its transformation of borgata hotel casino into an enterprise asset. Cooper’s team is charged with having initial borgata hotel casino products working this year.

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Keeping two-way traffic open during borgata hotel casino and road renewal

The City of Edmonton’s Groat Road Bridges and Road Renewal project set challenging requirements. Despite approaching the end of its service life, the City wanted the nearly 65-year-old, 330-metre-long four-lane bridge forming a critical transportation route over the North Saskatchewan River repaired rather than replaced. The entire superstructure’s deck, girders and portions of piers and abutments – 13,000 tonnes of concrete – was to be demolished. Traffic normally averaging approximately 40,000 vehicles per day had to flow throughout borgata hotel casino. Widening of the shared use path from 2.4m to 4.2m on the bridge was completed to meet the City’s requirements. In-stream work faced regulatory hurdles including schedule restrictions for fish spawning, and physical constraints to how much of the River could be impacted at any given time. And the project needed to be completed in under three years.

Although many factors and people contributed to the project’s completion on-budget at .6 million and within the 33-month schedule, Graham borgata hotel casino’s successful execution hinged on a bold temporary works innovation conceived before the project even began. In brief: the superstructure demolition and reconstruction were completed from above instead of below. There, project execution centred on a custom-designed and constructed, rail-mobile gantry crane system – the first such solution ever used in Canada.

“The process amounted to sawing the old bridge down the middle, repairing one half of the bridge, keeping two-way traffic open on the other side, then flipping the process and repeating,” explains Jim Murray, the City of Edmonton’s Project Manager. “This was no easy task, people driving by don’t realize how complex borgata hotel casino is.” And continues Murray, “In the first half we struggled, this was something new, borgata hotel casino was quite stressful because we knew if we didn’t get that first half flipped over for traffic, we weren’t going to be successful.”

Phase 1 (West Half) Demolition borgata hotel casino bridge deck

In addition to the river bridge itself, the contract called for rehabilitating two bridges, one to the north of the river and one to the south of the river along with the rehabilitation of 5 km of roadway and on/off ramps. The City had previously selected DIALOG as designer and engineer of record, and the firm would later remain on-site through contract administration. borgata hotel casino was selected as general contractor in January 2018 based on a combination of price and relevant experience. “On a project with this kind of complexity and risks – a critical river bridge in the centre of Edmonton – we don’t hire somebody for whom this is their first try at it,” notes Murray.

In 2017 borgata hotel casino began delivering an equally complex project in its widening of Calgary’s Crowchild Trail bridge. The company resolved similar in-stream restrictions concerning the Bow River by hanging temporary works off the bridge sides, averting the need for traditional in-stream berms. “Groat Bridge couldn’t be executed like Crowchild,” notes Stephanie Grundke, borgata hotel casino’s Project Manager. “But it too required complex temporary works with a large focus on traffic management.”

The work on Groat Bridge required a more extensive rehabilitation than Crowchild. Before landing the contract, Graham had identified regulatory and schedule risks associated with the use of in-stream access to perform the major rehabilitation activities. Fish spawning windows would significantly reduce the available in-stream borgata hotel casino periods. The initial concept was to have four phases of in-stream berm during allowable borgata hotel casino periods, dividing the project into quarters.

Fortuitously, a Graham employee attending an industry conference met an acquaintance from COWI North America, Ltd., and the two began brainstorming, explains Melissa Jennings, the COWI engineer who performed design work on all of the major temporary works. In a historic photo of a previous borgata hotel casino project, the COWI employee had noticed a gantry crane system being used to build a bridge. Could this be done on the Groat project, enabling year-round borgata hotel casino, uninterrupted by seasonal and regulatory constraints?

The two companies had worked extensively together in the past, notes Grundke. “They are really receptive to coming up with solutions that are conducive to borgata hotel casino, the people there are very practical, they understand borgata hotel casino and they tailor their designs accordingly,” she notes. Now, Graham brought COWI in as borgata hotel casino engineer on the Groat project, and the two teams set to work.

What took shape was an arrangement of two mobile gantries, each with 40-tonne capacity, mounted in tandem. They could be used individually to lift up-to-40-tonne bridge deck panels, or together to lift 80-tonne sections borgata hotel casino bridge girders. The existing bridge was comprised of seven spans and six cast-in-place girder lines; three girder lines were to be removed in the first phase. The gantries would run on two parallel supports. One was the “runway beam”, a large, very strong temporary steel girder placed overtop borgata hotel casino old bridge’s middle girder and running the length borgata hotel casino bridge. The other was a triangular truss placed outboard and supported by steel brackets which were tensioned across the pier using high-strength rods.

Phase 2 (East Half) borgata hotel casino erection

“It became an iterative process,” recalls Jennings. “Senior engineers would sketch out what it could look like, then we had internal discussions, then we reviewed it with the contractor to make sure it was feasible, each iteration improved it.” She describes this process as “highly collaborative. I felt like I really gained a lot being able to work with borgata hotel casino.”

borgata hotel casino became a weirdly elegant solution that was quite challenging to carry out.

Getting the runway beam, truss and bracket system installed and running was a large part of the overall project. There were many technical constraints involved in installing the system including accommodating the existing geometry of the bridge to “fit” the support system accommodating the bridge’s existing design which included rocking piers and hinges in the existing girders, as well as critical tolerances for the rails and gantries, anchorage of the pier brackets and runway beam without conflicting with existing rebar, plus concerns about the bridge’s deficient shear strength. And, of course, borgata hotel casino had to remain open to traffic. The design package analyzing the impacts of the runway beam on the existing bridge girder over which borgata hotel casino would be placed alone ran to 1,000 pages. “borgata hotel casino’s a simple concept to understand, but there were all these different pieces involved, and designing borgata hotel casino to handle the large loads during demolition was quite complicated,” Jennings explains. “borgata hotel casino became a weirdly elegant solution that was quite challenging to carry out.”

“This was a huge deal,” agrees Murray. The gantry scheme required review and approval by the director borgata hotel casino city’s Integrated Infrastructure Department. The gantries needed to remove 400 pieces of concrete of up to 80 tonnes each according to a prescribed order of removal aimed at maintaining the bridges structural integrity through all stages borgata hotel casino process.

“First we cut the concrete deck between the girders and lifted those pieces away using the gantry cranes, and then would cut and lifted the girder pieces out,” recalls Grundke. “The sequence followed to remove the girder segments, at times leaveing unbalanced girders cantilevered over the river, so we would secure these with ‘strongback’ steel pieces anchored to the gantry’s support steel.” Demolition took about four months for each phase, much of borgata hotel casino in the winter. “In addition to staying below the 80-tonne combined capacity of the cranes, we also needed to control the sequence we picked each piece to ensure that loads transferred to the support system were as designed,” notes Grundke. “Many of the girder lifts were near the cranes capacity by design. borgata hotel casino was critical that our team treated every lift as seriously as the first one.”

Phase I demolition was very challenging, recalls Murray. “As they started removing pieces of deck, we found the deck was delaminated in places, so we needed a new plan to get the deck panels off in one piece,” he says. COWI developed a new plan to revise the anchoring borgata hotel casino panels.

Importantly, the gantry crane approach proved sound and, with experience and adjustments, the work became more efficient. Consequently, says Murray, “The second half was far smoother and easier. We had learned lessons, so we were prepared for everything, plus we had half of the bridge rebuilt which was much stronger than the original.” To further protect the river below during the actual concrete cutting, borgata hotel casino installed a mobile containment system beneath the bridge to catch the water/concrete slurry during cutting. The concrete slurry was vacuumed and filtered and then reused for subsequent cuts.

Groat Road and borgata hotel casino

The gantry cranes remained active during reconstruction, which included hauling rebar, formwork, the new steel girders, and other heavy loads. borgata hotel casino’s innovative work sequencing saved time by having the false deck formwork, and rebar installation commence immediately upon placement of each span of new girders, rather than waiting until all seven spans were fully installed. That too, notes Jennings, “Required a lot more detailed calculations of where one expects the steel to be, elevation-wise, rather than just measuring the girders once installed.” But the significant time gained proved well worth the added effort.

Refurbished Groat borgata hotel casino

borgata hotel casino has been asked to speak about the gantry-crane approach at several industry conferences.

In October 2020 the refurbished Groat Bridge officially opened on-schedule, with a large ceremony and news media present, delivering a great result for the City of Edmonton and the millions of motorists, cyclists and pedestrians who will use it over its 50-year rated lifespan. borgata hotel casino’s runway beam was later sold, with parts of the truss repurposed for the Kicking Horse Canyon project at Golden, B.C.  borgata hotel casino has been asked to speak about the gantry-crane approach at several industry conferences. Sums up Grundke: “It not only helped us meet Edmonton’s contract requirements, but it was very beneficial from an environmental standpoint; completing major demolition and reconstruction activities from above significantly reduced impacts to the North Saskatchewan River and its users.”

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Michael Nesvik joined borgata hotel casino’s Seattle Buildings office in 2018 with a mandate to find any technology that might help the team do things better or faster, assist in gaining projects, improve borgata hotel casino’s preconstruction service offering, or accelerate the company’s use of Building Information Modelling (BIM). The particular technology Nesvik identified and recently pioneered at the Muse is called borgata hotel casino. MatterPort produces high-resolution and measurable scans which, when married to a comparison tool, enables borgata hotel casino, subcontractors, and clients to effectively “see through” walls to know what lies beneath the skin.

The inexpensive solution is proving itself capable of sharpening the accuracy and lowering the costs of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) rework while strengthening the confidence of clients and inspectors. “We’re using MatterPort through all stages of borgata hotel casino,” Nesvik says. Since pioneering MatterPort at Everett, Graham has used it all over Washington and in the Vancouver area.

MatterPort’s 360-degree walk-throughs have made it a staple in residential real estate marketing for years. “It’s a really cool way to show off a building,” says Nesvik. Several people at Graham had begun talking about using MatterPort to showcase finished projects for individuals who might not be able to attend in person. Last year Nesvik, the Seattle Buildings team’s borgata hotel casino Technologies Engineer, performed a series of test scans at a recently completed Tribal School in La Push, Washington.

Impressed by MatterPort’s simplicity and ease of use, Nesvik realized the technology might be suitable for scanning a building’s interior at the final MEP rough-in stage of borgata hotel casino. Gaining an accurate record just before walls are clad is important, but the borgata hotel casino industry has struggled to find the best solution. Especially in the commercial and multi-family residential borgata hotel casino the Seattle Buildings team specializes in, typically there’s very little time between when all MEP systems are entirely complete and when crews start affixing drywall.

borgata hotel casino companies often opt to snap as many digital photos as possible in the brief time. But such imagery is neither searchable nor measurable. A tradesperson going in perform rework must typically cut out a section of wall to locate the item in question – perhaps a missed valve, a leaking joint, or checking whether backing needed to support a shower bar was installed. “This kind of rework gets expensive and time-consuming, especially if you don’t know where things are and you have to cut out a large wall area and re-do everything,” notes Nesvik.

A major improvement came with OpenSpace, a helmet-mounted video camera that facilitates rapid walk-throughs at multiple borgata hotel casino stages. OpenSpace creates a credible record, is searchable, and allows addition of instructions and notes between project participants. Graham uses OpenSpace extensively (as described in articles ‘borgata hotel casino with Purpose‘ and ‘borgata hotel casino‘). OpenSpace does not, however, provide measurability. borgata hotel casino Nesvik: “If you’re going to cut into a wall to expose a pipe or wiring, you want to know its exact location.”

Filling that capability gap is what makes MatterPort so powerful. Though borgata hotel casino’s not as lightning-quick as OpenSpace, borgata hotel casino’s far more than just a camera, not only taking high-resolution visual images but conducting a 360-degree, three-dimensional LiDAR scan, producing a PointCloud rendering of an entire building. “You can label and do callouts, allowing the user to go to a particular room or other location with a search and click,” says Nesvik. “And borgata hotel casino’s measurable, so the user knows exactly where everything is behind the walls.” LiDAR is the key ingredient.

Nesvik became further intrigued by a comparison tool created by a partner company of MatterPort’s. Combining scans borgata hotel casino different stages creates a digital walk-through allowing users to effectively look through the walls. “This means the tradesperson is seeing exactly where they are and where they want to get to, to expose for any repairs or rework,” says Nesvik.

The LiDAR scanning aspect also opens a window to a truly remarkable capability: making the capturing of spaces in light or dark areas extremely accurate within less than an inch. This accuracy can create an exact floor plan and reflected ceiling plan within 48 hours, all done through MatterPort. This is especially useful when renovating an older building whose drawings are long-lost and, in any case, whose current state “as built” departs greatly from any drawings. An early scan can thereby produce as-built pre-reno drawings. The capability also facilitates rendering “as built” drawings after completion, since the result may differ from new design drawings. “We can create a floorplan borgata hotel casino building for, like, ,” Nesvik enthuses. The results even are precise enough for use as baseline drawings by project architects/designers.

At the Muse, Nesvik scanned the entire two-storey building in about three hours. He used MatterPort before borgata hotel casino began, at the MEP finish stage, and after project completion “to showcase how beautiful the building is.” The first scan created a digital footprint of the existing building, which increased the confidence of the building’s owner and neighbour that nothing would be damaged during renovation. “The Muse became our full-fledged test case for MatterPort,” Nesvik says.

The Seattle Buildings team aren’t the only ones excited by MatterPort. borgata hotel casino has used it for a high school renovation in Couer d’Alene, Idaho, renovations, and at the University of Idaho in Moscow. borgata hotel casino’s Vancouver office has also dived in, using MatterPort on several projects, including a 40-storey high rise tower in downtown Vancouver, several areas of the Paramount borgata hotel casino, and multiple scans in portions of the Vancouver General Hospital reno, where borgata hotel casino is being used for overlay of BIM 3D models to facilitate coordination with subcontractors and safety procedures.

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Graham borgata hotel casino has grown significantly in the last several years, through organic growth and acquisition and merger. Growth, while exciting for the company overall, creates significant challenges for how we manage a growing data asset within an expanding technology landscape.

Speed to decision is key, and the challenge from our Executive team has been how do we utilize the data we have to maintain and grow our competitive edge in major borgata hotel casino across Canada and the US. While ERP systems and other business software will eventually be rationalized and consolidated, we cannot wait to have access to quality data to improve strategic decision making, such as emerging market opportunities, and oversight of our in-progress builds.

The long-term strategy for Data and Analytics at Graham looks beyond incremental current state improvements and into future borgata hotel casino capabilities we want to be able to exploit. More and more data are coming to us in a range of different forms, such as IoT and streaming telematics data from our equipment fleet, unstructured data coming from borgata hotel casino drawings, plans and digital images for quality assessments. Our centralized data platform needs to be able to handle not only the growing volume of data, but also a range of data types. We want to be able to quickly bring new use cases and types of analysis to Graham and exploit artificial intelligence and machine learning for business gain.

Like most companies Graham’s overall IT direction is a cloud first approach. The nature of cloud solutions for borgata hotel casino analytics means we can piece together an ecosystem that works best for our needs, with a priority on performance, security, and ease of use. Cost is the other major factor to consider when moving into cloud computing for borgata hotel casino analytics. At first, consumption-based charging sounds like it should be less expensive, but many companies are finding the opposite especially when it comes to ‘always on’ options such as live streaming borgata hotel casino. It is easy to get carried away with exciting functionality that appears easier to manage through cloud services. At Graham we always ask the question, how will having this real time improve the outcomes for our business? Are we really making real time decisions? If we can’t provide tangible return on investment, then we need to investigate other ways to achieve the outcome. Another benefit to cloud technologies is, if necessary, we can create a charge back model to business units for the cost of providing specialized services like real time reporting.

While the term ‘borgata hotel casino-driven’ has long been in the zeitgeist as the desired future state for every organization, at Graham the approach is to become more borgata hotel casino enabled. We are doing this through utilizing people, process, and technology. We expect the borgata hotel casino to provide key insights to our experts who ultimately make the decisions at the coalface of our business. While I am sure we will find use cases for more advanced cognitive services, in the first instance we are trying to provide analysis that improves the decisions we are already making operationally to improve safety, productivity and profitability across all areas of the business.

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The OpenSpace technology meets borgata hotel casino’s “Innovation with Purpose” standard.

Gaining accurate real-time insight into a borgata hotel casino project’s progress, comparing the site situation to plan and seeing that problems are rectified have been long-sought goals – always with decidedly imperfect solutions. A recently applied technology is enabling borgata hotel casino providers to take large steps in the right direction.

OpenSpace records 360-degree helmet-cam views, shooting one still image per second that, when run through the firm’s software, builds an “immersive reality” that simulates moving around a site – indoors or out. The borgata hotel casino reside on a website accessible to authorized users. When mated with AI and LiDAR, OpenSpace provides a 4D (three dimensions over time) progress map, letting the contractor’s personnel, subcontractors and clients to visually track progress week by week, confirm work done, make borgata hotel casino and assign tasks.

The OpenSpace technology meets borgata hotel casino’s “Innovation with Purpose” standard by which the company separates gimmicks and distractions from genuine advancements that improve the company’s efficiency and benefit clients.

“The increased site transparency is so much better than the old way of doing things,” says Brent Stratton, an Engineer-in-Training at borgata hotel casino and the company’s Toolbox Next Generation Stream 5 Lead.

“The add-on functions create a lot of further value. borgata hotel casino owners love being able to easily track things.”

Stratton piloted OpenSpace on the Aria Project, a 288-suite complex in Calgary financed by Gracorp, Graham’s development arm. “We commenced regular 3D capture walks outside for the site plan and inside for the main level plans,” Stratton recalls. “We compared the actual pictures with the 3D borgata hotel casino model, how things were lining up, where the finishes went, and so on.” Weekly shoots facilitate efficient tracking of borgata hotel casino progress, comparison to schedule and identification of deficiencies. Side-by-side comparisons of successive recordings, notes Stratton, allowed “everyone to see the whole building progressing.

”Numerous real-world benefits flow borgata hotel casino the use of OpenSpace. The system incorporates meta-borgata hotel casino that include all users and their area of responsibility. Users can take field notes and embed icons on the imagery that, in turn, can be used in deficiency reports and assignment of remedial tasks. Safety personnel can inspect a site virtually and either confirm requirements are being met or highlight areas of concern. Users can also query specific features – “fire alarms”, for example – and the software will match all corresponding items, allowing comparison to plan and thereby making quality assurance more efficient.

On a practical level, if borgata hotel casino becomes necessary to inspect hidden infrastructure like valves, for example, the precise location facilitated by OpenSpace imagery minimizes the physical destruction needed for access. At times, it can avoid physical work altogether. On one borgata hotel casino project, the digital record of a buried waterline’s installation satisfied a government inspector that the company had included the required automatic shut-off valve, avoiding what would normally have been time-consuming and costly re-excavation.

Stratton foresees borgata hotel casino OpenSpace extending past borgata hotel casino. “You can see when the exterior and interior’s various layers went in,” he explains. “So if there’s a concern later that something was missed, you can go back and confirm that everything was done to plan.” For the same reason, Stratton expects OpenSpace to be handy on future renovations and upgrades by providing a quick and accurate review borgata hotel casino as-built environment.

In addition to being better than the old way, the costs and complexity of any innovation should be less than what borgata hotel casino replaces. Inexpensive, easy to use and flexible, OpenSpace clearly meets these tests for application in the borgata hotel casino industry.

borgata hotel casino with Purpose
borgata hotel casino is continuing its journey of adopting innovative tools and processes, and implementing technological solutions that increase value, improve efficiency for our clients and make things easier for our on-site project teams. We are thoughtful in our adopting and implementation of innovative technological tools and processes – we will not move forward with something simply because it’s interesting or unique. Our path of innovation is underpinned by the value/benefit each solution yields. Innovation with purpose.

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This is the foundational idea of Graham’s “Innovation with Purpose” approach. “As opposed to one-off, gimmicky tools that are ‘chasing cool’, we are implementing sustainable, repeatable solutions. While on the surface these might appear to be less buzzworthy, they are really moving the needle,” observes Matt Gramblicka, Graham’s Vice President, IT & Enterprise Applications, who has been part of the company for most of the past 30 years, “We are rebuilding our IT core around the concept of connected borgata hotel casino to build our projects better, to maximize the benefits of process innovation, and to improve communications with stakeholders.”

Innovation with Purpose reflects a mature concept of industry leadership – selecting and implementing only the most effective and most appropriate innovations, rather than rushing to be first with every idea. That explains borgata hotel casino’s focus on rebuilding its IT core. It is centred on an advanced version of borgata hotel casino’s SAP enterprise resource planning software combined with the industry solution InEight, which form the nucleus of the company’s Toolbox Next Generation (TNG), a suite of frontline systems and processes that are revolutionizing how borgata hotel casino delivers its projects. Solution design for TNG began in 2018 and as of June 2022, the full solution will be pilot ready.

Graham’s original Toolbox was a remarkable innovation in its time. It was based on the simple but then almost revolutionary concept that any piece of data entered by any source at any point in the borgata hotel casino cycle would become common across all tools, offices and departments for the project’s life – and beyond, forming a common base of reusable knowledge. Toolbox’s integrated nature aimed to leap past the borgata hotel casino industry’s siloed departments using multiple data sets and presentation tools, with chronic duplication and errors.

Now, says Gramblicka, TNG “is part of a family of solutions to make the borgata hotel casino work seamless, using common solutions.” The vision for TNG is to track a project with a digital model available to all stakeholders, all the way from concept and borgata hotel casino, through operations and maintenance. “Every area –especially estimating, safety, and QC tracking – will advance,” predicts Gramblicka.

TNG aims to maximize consistency throughout the North American organization of 24 offices and more than 2,200 people. The company-wide improvements to efficiency and effectiveness as processes and execution methods become fully repeatable enables employees to be redeployed seamlessly between divisions and across geographic locations. “borgata hotel casino is a unique opportunity to reduce the amount of ‘custom’ work that isn’t really custom, so you’re not reinventing known processes, materials and solutions every time,” notes Gramblicka.

Every innovation borgata hotel casino is undertaking must yield demonstrable value and cannot be a one-off that dies after one project. “Clients are looking for value, quality and timeliness, and the right price, and we are leveraging technology to deliver on all these project attributes,” is how Gramblicka sums it up. In all instances, borgata hotel casino’s fundamental aims are to improve how the company delivers projects and to increase value for clients. That is Innovation with Purpose.

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