The Street That Gets Reopened Twice: The Real Cost of As-Built Plans - S2. E15.
A brand new street, paved in July. Three months later, it has to be jackhammered open again because a cable simply isn't where the plan says it is. The culprit: a subcontractor documenting their work with whatever tools are on hand, an Excel file here, a PDF scanned in a hurry in the truck there.
The problem is that the operator needs georeferenced data for their GIS. A scanned PDF is a dead image that doesn't speak to any database. Two teams, two languages, and precision gets lost in translation.
In this episode, we follow Simon, a project manager in the Eastern Townships, who oversees an FTTH deployment with about forty access points. He used to spend his fall deciphering handwritten notes. With Zonedge Terrain, the data is entered once, in the right format, and syncs directly with the engineer at the office. The anomaly shows up on screen before the crew even leaves the job site.
