Client: Carver County, Minn.
Location: Carver County

To complement Carver County’s Active Community Planning program, the county established the Trail and Recreation Information Portal (TRIP) to encourage citizens to access the county’s dynamic trail and park information. TRIP, an interactive Web mapping application on the GoCarverGo’s Web site, enables citizens to access updated parks, trails, and sidewalk information for city, county, and regional facilities. This information allows residents to find local opportunities that promote active living and recreation.

TRIP uses JavaScript™ API technology, which offers increased performance, enhanced map visualization and efficiency, and the utilization of map cache services. The JavaScript API also provides a framework that is cross-browser compatible and easy for administrators at Carver County to customize with future enhancements. Gannett Fleming’s GeoDecisions Division created TRIP in partnership with Carver County.

Client: Smithfield Foods
Location: Nationwide

GeoDecisions, Gannett Fleming’s geospatial and information technology division, implemented the Electronic Environmental Management System (E²MS) to take Smithfield Foods to the next level in Environmental Management System (EMS) organization, control, and ease of training. Its 10-year-old EMS supporting software was outdated, and the training of employees in use of the system consumed significant resources. The implementation has enabled Smithfield Foods to more efficiently monitor and track program progress and reduce its overall environmental footprint.

E²MS is a customized application that allows users to better manage data, documentation, audits, and corrective actions, in addition to assigning and tracking compliance tasks. The application also features a user-specific dashboard that can be tailored to the individual user.

Previously, Smithfield’s environmental software training programs would take nearly 40 hours to complete. Now, with E²MS, a good working knowledge can be obtained with only two hours of training, which can occur online instead of requiring days of classroom-style training. This significant time savings is critical in today’s business environment.

Like other manufacturers and packaged-food producers, one of Smithfield’s main priorities is to reduce production waste and decrease the environmental impact of operations. The application’s ease of use and built-in document management system has enabled more reliability and access for the company’s numerous platforms and facilities, as well as provides the tools necessary to monitor operations from a centralized tracking location – ensuring consistency throughout all U.S. operations.

E²MS’ fully customizable, Web-based application has benefited Smithfield Foods by improving the capability to meet compliance requirements, minimizing paperwork and facilitating document control, enhancing communication regarding environmental issues, increasing environmental awareness and involvement, and enhancing the ability to meet legal and other requirements.

Client: Mayor’s Office of Environmental Remediation (MOER), City of New York
Location: New York, New York

The City of New York has instituted a Brownfield Cleanup Program (BCP) to promote the redevelopment of potentially contaminated and underused sites. The NYC BCP is the first municipal program of its kind in the country and is intended to facilitate the fast and efficient cleanup and reuse of contaminated sites. This Vacant Properties Database (VPD) will assist in the rapid redevelopment of these sites and allow the city to measure long-term progress toward the plan’s goals. The City of New York selected Gannett Fleming to develop the database for this program.

The principal objectives of the VPD project are to create an initial database of vacant properties and develop a publicly available portal to enable the query and display of the vacant properties and environmental-related data.

A Web-based editing portal was developed to view historic data sources and create/edit the VPD database. This editing portal was created to populate the initial VPD database and is also available to city staff to add focus properties as needed. This project and MOER have their roots in PlaNYC, the roadmap for a greener, greater New York. Accordingly, the public portal component to this project will be expandable into an instrument focused on economic development, which results in brownfield site cleanups that will have powerful policy, business, and planning implications.