Testimonials

"I see Envista as a real game changer in how municipal infrastructure construction can be managed more efficiently and effectively.” - Margaret B. Martin, PE, Division Chief III – Department of General Services, City of Baltimore

 “The amount of savings we’ve realized in such a short time really shows how Envista provides rapid, measurable benefits. It also points to the added value everyone gains when more and more vested entities participate in the overall system.” - Margaret B. Martin, PE, Division Chief III – Department of General Services, City of Baltimore

“Envista now allows the City to manage utility projects and avoid needless road cutting and repaving. In the end, Envista will help us substantially stretch Winnipeg’s capital budget for streets—all good things for the taxpayer.” - Derrick Saedel, Supervisor of the Underground Structures Group, City of Winnipeg

“With Envista, both internal and external utilities are now on the same map to tackle the giant maze of construction work scheduled for decades into the future.” - Derrick Saedel, Supervisor of the Underground Structures Group, City of Winnipeg

“Project coordination has traditionally meant meeting once a month with various utilities and sifting through spreadsheets. But a lot can change in a month, and it’s virtually impossible to get a complete picture over that time period when pieces of information are contained in multiple spreadsheets. With Envista, everything is in one place, in color and visually represented on the online map so it’s much easier to see where and when various activities are taking place. Because Envista automatically reveals conflicts in project schedules, our project managers can resolve them proactively to avoid delays and cost overruns. We have found Envista to be a very easy-to-use system.” - Bob Wigeland, General Supervisor in Edmonton’s Transportation Department

“We’ve barely scratched the surface with Envista. By renewing our subscription for another two years, we can build on our investment to not only save more time and money, but also enhance our relationship with citizens. For example, by helping different departments such as transportation and water to better coordinate their maintenance and upgrade plans, Envista enables them to prevent unnecessary and frustrating disruptions to our City’s neighborhoods. We’re all simply trying to spend less and accomplish more—Envista is playing a key role in helping us meet that objective.” - Bob Wigeland, General Supervisor in Edmonton’s Transportation Department

 “Envista allows our users to align their project schedules so street cuts occur only once. This helps us cut down on street closings, which avoids traffic problems and reduces the negative impact on our neighborhoods. Most important, Envista helps our governments and utilities stretch their limited budgets by realizing very significant savings in paving costs.”  - Trisha Brush, Deputy Director for GIS Administration, Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission

 “Envista had an immediate impact on our productivity and efficiency … the City and the various utility companies are now able to coordinate and prioritize projects into the future based upon each other’s needs and budgets.”  - Mike Yeager, Assistant City Engineer, City of Covington, Kentucky

One of the most valuable benefits of Envista is its ability to help HRSD identify and avoid conflicts, recently demonstrated as the City of Norfolk launched a large repaving effort in the midst of an extensive underground infrastructure condition assessment being conducted by HRSD. - “Envista is going to allow HRSD to recognize where our condition assessment work is in conflict with the City’s paving work, and coordinate efforts to resolve any conflicts. In the past, this coordination would have involved creating multiple GIS overlays and manually looking for areas of conflict. In the worst case scenario, a conflict might be overlooked, resulting in a street cut and re-paving. Envista will allow us to recognize, coordinate, and resolve these conflicts almost instantly, avoiding unnecessary street disruption and the possibility of considerable paving costs.” - Bruce W. Husselbee, P.E., HRSD Director of Engineering

“Coordinating capital projects and information requests with multiple jurisdictions is often difficult and time consuming. During HRSD’s capital planning process, Envista will be a valuable tool used to coordinate our upcoming projects with those of the local jurisdictions. Aligning our project schedules with those of the jurisdictions will save time and money, which ultimately benefits ratepayers.”  - Nancy L. Munnikhuysen, HRSD Chief of Communications

“Pepco chose Envista Smarter Streets because of the potential benefits its map-based coordination will extend to our customers. These benefits include projected capital savings due to reduced paving costs, fewer traffic impediments experienced by our customers due to multiple construction related projects, and additional benefits as we explore the full potential of this solution. Envista’s ability to enable proactive coordination between our utility and other entities that are working within the public space is expected to help us mitigate the frustrations and inconvenience of projects that occur in almost immediate succession of each other over a relatively short period of time.”  -Thomas H. Graham, President, Pepco Region

“In just the first four months of using Envista we realized $250,000 in cost avoidance - money that was reallocated to improve system reliability for our customers rather than incur unnecessary costs due to inefficient project coordination.” - Darryl Jackson, Director of Operations Work Planning, Measurement and Technology, Washington Gas Company

"The value of Envista is proportionate to the contribution of everyone operating in that public space.  We anticipate that by next year, we will realize $1 million or more in cost recovery with Envista." - Darryl Jackson, Director of Operations Work Planning, Measurement and Technology, Washington Gas Company