Land Development Certificates' new pipe asset assessment
- Reviewed 350+ new asset inspections
- 10kms+ covered
- 400+ pipe features & defects found
About LDC
Since 1999, Land Development Certificates (LDC) has grown to become the most experienced team of Engineering and Subdivision Certifiers across New South Wales. Their team is comprised of expert Certifiers who have all held senior roles in subdivision and engineering and offer strong knowledge in local government practices.
Their detail-oriented approach to development assessment and determination allows them to understand the desired outcomes of the development and deliver a streamlined certification process resulting in a development consistent with approval.
The Challenge & Opportunity
Project Snapshot
As subdivision certifiers, LDC are tasked with planning & assessing the required installation of subdivision infrastructure including critical water assets.
LDC engineers have reviewed over 350 new asset inspections across 7 subdivision project folders, covering over 10Km’s, powered by VAPAR.
Evaluating these new asset installation inspections has resulted in 400+ pipe features & defects, used to build the required rehabilitation works & acceptance program.
As subdivision certifiers, LDC are tasked with planning & assessing the required installation of subdivision infrastructure including critical water assets.
CCTV inspections of the assets post-installation are assessed against regulatory new asset acceptance standards, to be considered & accepted by Council or Regulatory departments.
CCTV inspections delivered to LDC via their contractor require focused assessment, with great consideration of the future lifecycle of the asset, therefore requiring a higher sensitivity threshold to defects that in established water assets may be deemed minor or lower priority (small cracks, spalling or installation displacement).
The Solution
Land Development Certificates engaged the use of VAPAR’s AI-powered platform, VAPAR.Solutions, to efficiently & consistently review their asset adoption inspections. Utilising machine learning algorithms, the VAPAR platform creates & assesses video frames of the inspection – utilising several defect processing algorithms (e.g: cracks, joint displacement, junction / connection) to provide Land Development Certificates with a series of reportable frames with pre-assigned defect allocations.
This provides a more efficient process of asset inspection coding, allowing the engineering team to identify even the minor on-screen defects that may over the become significant defects & require further work to certify the asset acceptance. Using the inspection frames process, the engineering team have complete control over the reported defects within the asset, utilising Repair Recommendations to generate a package of works within a subdivision project.
Results
Land Development Certificates engineers have reviewed over 350 new asset inspections across 7 subdivision project folders, covering over 10Km’s, powered by VAPAR.
Evaluating these new asset installation inspections has resulted in 400+ pipe features & defects, used to build the required rehabilitation works & acceptance program.
“In our role as registered certifiers VAPAR helps us to independently review the raw data rather than rely upon reporting provided by third parties. It also provides a platform with tools to make our review more efficient and manage our projects. It also makes the sharing of data very simple.” Eric Hausfield, Director
Conclusions
Through utilisation of VAPAR.Solutions, Land Development Certificates (LDC) have been able to efficiently manage their subdivision asset acceptance program delivering to multiple councils across NSW.
With a higher sensitivity of defect consideration, focused upon the greater lifecycle of the asset, LDC were able to utilise the automated inspection frames processed from the VAPAR platform to more quickly assess for further installation works or asset acceptance.
They were able to deliver over 10km’s of inspection reporting directly to a shared cloud storage location, giving their engineering team a simple & accessible process of subdivision-reporting delivery.
How Vapar is used in other councils
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“VAPAR has helped us understand the complexity of using AI for CCTV review, and we are now better positioned to start implementing this technology to improve data quality and asset management processes.”
“As this is a true digital solution we were able to complete the first trial despite the current pandemic through true global collaboration. We have had some extremely promising results from the initial work and look forward with the potential expand the trials.”
“VAPAR provides accurate and effective condition rating to council’s stormwater CCTV video, allowing for significant cost and time savings.”
“We’ve discovered so many improvements and efficiencies using VAPAR as opposed to keeping the status quo. We are really setting ourselves up for success well into the future.”
"The work Trility carried out for CCTV inspection assessments / analysis would usually take months to complete. With the implementation of Vapar, the same task took just weeks.”
United Utilities is always on the lookout for ways we can provide world-class services to our customers. We are interested in partnering with companies like Vapar, who stand out because of their agility, technical skill and willingness to work collaboratively.