2024 SAG Award Winners

WSB, LLC

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Project Goal

Blattner Energy sought support from WSB to assist with its digital transformation of field operations. As a leader in the renewable construction industry, Blattner manages many wind and solar construction projects across North America. Through consultation with WSB, Blattner chose GIS as it’s enterprise technology to streamline field operations, inform decisions, reduce risk, and drive value for its clients. Blattner’s goals for Enterprise GIS are to use it as a foundational technology to transform its design, construction, and digital delivery operations. WSB assisted with planning and implementing Blattner’s Enterprise GIS system and strategy. Their use of enterprise GIS as a core tenant of their digital strategy is a leading industry trend.
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Business Problem Solved

Blattner’s field operations for their renewable construction projects historically relied on a mix of data sources to support operations. This resulted in a lack of standards across all company projects on how information was sent to and retrieved from the field. Implementing Enterprise GIS allowed Blattner to: deliver data to the field quicker, collect, manage and share field data across all project roles, integrate design with the field, develop digital delivery standards. Enterprise GIS also allowed Blattner a platform for digital integration of equipment and other construction resources into a common operating picture across all projects.

Technology Implemented

ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Field Maps, ArcGIS Dashboards, ArcGIS Notebook Server, Survey123, ArcGIS Online, Experience Builder, Enterprise Sites.

Development Team Biography

Justin Hansen, Director of GIS Services, WSB: He has over 18 years of experience managing GIS projects, staff, software development, solutions design, systems integration, and GIS implementation. Justin led all efforts with Blattner to plan, design, and implement its ArcGIS Enterprise deployment and GIS program.
John Mackiewicz, VP of Technology, WSB: John leads WSB’s IT Group and has over 25 years of experience in the GIS industry. John provided strategic IT and operations oversight to help guide Blattner’s Enterprise GIS strategy.
Alex Johnson, Solution Architect, WSB: Alex has over 9 years of GIS experience and is proficient in Esri’s ArcGIS Platform. Alex’s led the development of Blattner’s web mapping tool using Experience Builder and the field solutions using Field Maps and Survey123.
Mike Etter, Solution Architect, WSB: Mike has 12 years of experience in GIS. Mike led the development of Blattner’s data models for wind and solar projects.