SpatialNews Press Release
GBA Master Series, Inc., Announces
Infrastructure Planning Alliance with Black
& Veatch Corporation
LENEXA, KS--GBA Master Series, Inc., Lenexa, Kansas, announced
December 1st their newly formed infrastructure planning business alliance
with Black & Veatch Corporation.
GBA Master SeriesTM Infrastructure Management Software is a suite of
products used to manage and maintain water, storm water, wastewater, and
street systems. The well-designed infrastructure management software
enables public works and utility professionals to efficiently manage their
systems. By using the software, industry professionals can quickly and
accurately prioritize maintenance and rehabilitation tasks, analyze current and
historical data to identify system trends, and recommend comprehensive
budget forecasts.
Black & Veatch's Infrastructure Planning Department provides water and
wastewater system planning services to clients around the globe. These
projects include master planning activities, hydraulic modeling, pipeline
rehabilitation and integrity studies, distribution system water quality modeling,
geographic information system (GIS)/model/management system integration,
and sanitary sewer surveys and infiltration/inflow studies. A primary goal of
the execution of the hundreds of projects they have engineered is to identify
innovative processes and techniques to produce long-term reliability at the
lowest life cycle cost.
The agreement reached by the two companies consists of the Infrastructure
Planning Department of Black & Veatch integrating several modules of the
GBA Master Series software suite into planning project execution. The
integration will provide increased value and a broader range of infrastructure
management capabilities to clients. Those modules include GBA Sewer
Master®, GBA Water Master®, GBA GIS Master®, and related toolkits.
Black & Veatch will use the software in the execution of projects involving
water distribution systems, wastewater collection systems, and related
projects for: wastewater system engineering, infiltration/inflow analysis, sewer
system evaluation, master planning, and environmental assessments.
A part of the agreement includes the development of a software link between
the GBA Master Series software programs and Black & Veatch's Sanitary
Sewer Management System (SSMS) and Water Distribution Management
System (WDMS) hydraulic modeling and master planning software, which
provides pre- and post-data processing for a number of standard modeling
software systems. Combining these programs will enable clients to more
reliably determine expansion or rehabilitation activities of their existing
systems.
"We are very excited about the opportunity to work closely with Black &
Veatch on continued enhancements to our already strong water and sewer
software offerings. Both our firms share similar philosophies regarding data
management, GIS development, and the need for industry standards," said
Donald E. Pinkston, P.E., President of GBA Master Series, Inc.
"This new relationship with GBA will allow Black & Veatch to provide the
best combination of software development and engineering technology to our
clients in a cost-effective manner. The capabilities of our firms are
complementary, which will create a truly dynamic process resulting in
state-of-the-art tools to improve the value we can deliver," said Richard E.
Nelson, P.E., Director of Infrastructure Planning of Black & Veatch.
GBA Master Series, Inc., has headquarters in Lenexa, Kansas, and
maintains offices in California, Missouri, and Pennsylvania. The GBA Master
Series suite of software products has been designed and continuously
enhanced by civil engineers since its inception in 1984. Written as a
client/server application with Microsoft Visual C++, the software uses
Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, or Oracle database platforms.
Additional modules for storm water, street, fleet, and equipment are also
available, along with modules for maintenance management and customer
complaint tracking. All modules are integrated with GBA GIS Master, an
extension of ESRI's ArcView® GIS software. For more information about
the GBA Master Series suite of infrastructure management software
products and services, visit www.gbamasterseries.com.
Black & Veatch is one of the largest and most diversified engineering and
construction companies in the world, having completed more than 35,000
projects for some 6,500 different clients around the globe. The construction
engineering design firm employs approximately 9,000 professionals in more
than 90 offices worldwide in countries from Argentina to Zimbabwe. Kansas
City, Missouri, serves as headquarters for the employee-owned company.
Black & Veatch has been ranked 14th by InformationWeek in their list of
the "Top 500 Technology Innovators" and 61st by Forbes magazine in their
list of the "500 Largest Private Companies in the U.S." For more information
about Black & Veatch, visit the company's Web site at www.bv.com.
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