CASE STUDY: REGIONAL COUNCIL

WAIKATO REGIONAL COUNCIL: “ The Waikato Regional Council stormwater Managing compliance team needed a way to manage the hundreds across 10 District Councils of consents which are active at any one time”

THE CHALLENGE

The Waikato region encompasses • WRC wanted to be able to submit ten District Councils and a compliance data via their mobile substantial land area. Each of phones - even when there was no the District Councils issues their network available. own consents for the areas they • WRC wanted to link to documents stored on their own document administer. BACKGROUND management system. With such a widespread geographical area and so many other councils involved, • WRC needed easy access to summary compliance data for the team and the Waikato Regional Council (WRC) The Waikato is the fourth reports for the management team. stormwater team needed a way to manage largest region in New the hundreds of consents which are active Zealand, covering 25,000 at any one time. square kilometres. It stretches from the and in the WHY BRAVEGEN? north down to the Kaimai Ranges and Mt Ruapehu in the south, and from Mokau Store all information in a Complements existing on the west coast across to centralised place systems the Coromandel Peninsula in the east. Tools for long and short Create reports that include term planning all necessary data

Information is accessible to Receive training to get the mobile devices most out of the software

ENVIRONMENT. H&S. SUSTAINABILITY. CONTRACTOR MANAGEMENT. bravegen.com THE SOLUTION

Waikato Regional Council’s stormwater 2. Viewing compliance tasks and BENEFITS team selected BraveGen as their system submitting compliance data is of choice to manage their 250 consents. available through any smartphone Some key requirements included: even when no network is available. Data is automatically synced with • Link to their existing document BraveGen once the network is  Complete overview of management system available again. consents and compliance • Submitting compliance data via 3. Instead of being bombarded with smartphone emails, staff are sent one email every  Data is available to • Convenient reporting for their week outlining instructions for the view offline executive team actions of the week. Notifications of Using the summary dashboards when any mid week updates are sent to  Automatically generated they first log in. the users phone. task list 1. All consents and compliance 4. BraveGen was designed information can reference documents for minimal training of users. The  Minimal training required in their in-house document executive team simply log in and are management system which uses a presented with a dashboard showing URL based address system. Simply everything they need to see. copying those links in to BraveGen retains the link and a user can click on them and be taken directly to the document in their document management system.

THE CONSULTANT

Waikato Regional Council engaged 4Sight They’ve built a reputation for providing Consulting to assist them with the expert planning and environmental Contact us now to find out more implementation of BraveGen. services that deliver the results clients Email [email protected] want, while maintaining regulatory and 4Sight Consulting have been helping their environmental integrity. Call NZ +64 9 929 3222 clients in the private and public sectors AU +61 3 8375 6900 and iwi make better decisions about our WRC contact: Peter Roberts SG +65 3163 5300 interaction with land and water since 2001. www.4sight.consulting Web bravegen.com/envcomp

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