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South Africa: Gautrain Nominated for Global Infrastructure Project
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BuaNews (Tshwane)
8 May 2008
Posted to the web 8 May 2008
Nthambeleni Gabara
Johannesburg
The Gautrain project has beat 250 top global infrastructure projects and qualified as a semi-finalist in the prestigious international 2008 Bently Empowered Award programme.
This is in recognition for its innovative customisation of project management software in two categories, according to a statement on Thursday.
Winners will be announced on 29 May at a ceremony in Baltimore, in the United States.
Gautrain Project Leader, Jack van der Merwe said although the competition winners for this award still need to be announced, it is a great honour for Gautrain to have achieved semi-finalist status.
One of Bently's products is Project Wise, a document and project management software programme which was customised by Gautrain.
It is used by many other globally recognisable flagship projects such as the London Underground rail system.
The two competition categories in which Gautrain excelled was Innovation in Rail and Transit; and Connecting Project Teams.
In these categories, Gautrain competed with major companies and projects such as the General Motors Corporation, Indian Department of Transport, a new High Speed Railway Line the Atlas Mountains of Algeria and the High-Speed Train Arrival in Barcelona, Spain.
Gautrain's Project Wise document control software programme was modified to suit its unique Private-Public-Partnership (PPP) project management needs.
As a Gauteng Provincial Government initiative, Gautrain is recognised as the biggest PPP project in Africa.
Gautrain's private partners are structured under the Bombela Concession Company and the construction of Gautrain is managed according to a Concession Agreement.
The software was customised to enable all the private and public partners to work collaboratively in an integrated system.
It was also specified in the PPP Concession Agreement that all documents in the Project Wise system would constitute legal documents with a proper auditable tracking system which would enable the monitoring of the parties' adherence to the contractual agreement.
Project Wise has been used since 2003 when Gautrain was still in a tender and procurement process.
More than 100 000 documents have been filed on Project Wise to date, ranging from geospatial images, photographs, correspondence and reports.
It is used by a variety of disciplines such as engineers, architects, land-use planners and environmentalists working on Gautrain.
The highly secured system has been customised to facilitate a real time audit trail of documents with a collaborative workflow process and ISO quality management systems.
During the tendering process, the security of the tender documents in the system was never compromised.
The Gautrain Project Team is currently rolling out a system that will link the as-built drawings, designs and documentation to a geospatial system, which will allow users to find documents by clicking on the location and specific structures on a map.
The Gautrain PPP team using Project Wise comprises both local and international partners.
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The Bombela Concession Company partners include Canadian company Bombardier, French companies Bouygues Travaux Publics and RATP Development.
South African company includes Murray & Roberts Limited and a broad-based consortium of black companies called Strategic Partners Group.
The Client, Concessionaire, the Independent Certifier, their consultants and contractors can access documents through this system, using the Internet as well.
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