Managing the Engineering Projects Through the GIS Tools

Document Type : Original Article

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Civil Engineering Department, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt

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Nowadays, large cities, such as Jeddah city, has a considerable number of projects in different locations. So, there is a crucial need to implement a comprehensive and fully integrated Project Management Solution (using Primavera Enterprise suit), to include all projects under construction or newly awarded in one centralized database.  In this context, the integration between Primavera data in spatial database is necessary. This proposed solution will support the Stakeholders to properly assign staff to mitigate the risks predicted to accomplish the project within time and within estimated budget. In this sense, the importance of this research, which seeks to find a state-of-the-art IT solution, which automates all Enterprise Project Management System procedures and formalities and provides linkage to geographic information systems programs ArcGIS to transform conventional project management data output and reports into information within geographic/location context. Thus, visualizing project management output such as linear/Gantt charts and/or tabular project related to work status, comments, and flags and associate this information in presence of maps and layouts. The current research introduces a complete integration solution to achieve a link and a connection between attribute data were coming from EPMS Primavera(P6) and Geographic spatial data (location) by using GIS software.

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