This edition has our latest updates, including customer insights and updates. We also have the latest information on Meridian, Accruent EMS, and Lunr.

Welcome to our November update.

The new Hunter Water EDMS is now live with a combination of Meridian and Lunr. Additionally, two new Lunr sites are now live, with Peak Renewables and Keolis Downer (Gold Coast) coming on board.

It's a busy time with Curtin University, the University of Melbourne, and SA Water now upgrading from the OCP (Onset Contractor Portal) to implement Lunr (SaaS) on the cloud for external contractors. For SA Water, Lunr also delivers a solution for 3D content, catering for BIM, Inventor, Navisworks, and point cloud files.

Meridian upgrades are being planned or underway with a number of sites, including Sydney Water, Perilya, Bega, Incitec (Dyno Nobel), and NZAS (New Zealand Aluminium Smelter).

If you're considering a Meridian upgrade, please contact us to start the discussion. There's more about the Meridian 2022 release below.

Holiday Dates

Our offices will be closed with all staff on leave between Thursday 22 December (last day) and Tuesday 03 January (first day back). During this period we will respond to high-priority issues (outages) via our 1300 phone number and our support email address.

Another application in the Accruent product suite is the EMS (Event Management Scheduling) solution. In its most basic form, EMS is often referred to as a room booking solution but, as with the University of Melbourne, it's far more capable than that. EMS provides flexible workplace scheduling whether it’s a desk, cubicle, shared table, parking space, sleep pod, or closed-in office.

The University of Melbourne Student Precinct includes six buildings and will deliver 37,050m2 of new or refurbished internal and external building and landscape space. The Student Precinct Project is located in the heart of the Parkville campus, on the corner of Grattan and Swanston Streets, and will provide expansive new indoor and outdoor spaces for students to come together, learn and connect. In March the Student Pavilion, the first new building as part of the Student Precinct Project, opened its doors at the Parkville campus.

In the academic environment, you can automate classroom planning, optimise exam scheduling, and pull information directly from the Student Information System (SIS) to facilitate room scheduling for courses and exams.

Contact us to learn more about how Accruent EMS can deliver a solution for your scheduling.

Meridian 2022 Server Release

There is a lot in the new release. Here are some of the new client features:

• Support for the AutoCAD 2023 product family.
• Compare document metadata.
• View the contents of the vault at a specific point in time (History mode).
• Quick Change for Others privilege.
• A native PDF document no longer requires a rendition for printing.
• Use Site Cache to upload large documents (50MB+).
• Performance improvements.

Metadata values can now also be compared between two document revisions from the Revisions tab in PowerWeb.

History mode allows you to look at the status of documents within the Meridian vault at a specific date and time.

Lunr Compliance Check

Have you been through the process of receiving drawings and entering them into your system only to discover, at the end of the process, that the drawings do not comply with the organisation's standards and will need to be updated and resubmitted?

This is a common issue and one that is addressed in Lunr by applying a compliancy check on contractor upload. The validation rules are flexible and may include elements such as a valid location, a standard title block, or populated title lines.

For more information you can check out the rest of the blog on Tackling Engineering Project Costs with Submittal Package Validation.