Informed Decisions, Accurate Results

Innovation and efficiency at work

Photo by: Kobe Tulloch, ProDelta Projects Inc.

Metres cubed reduction of remediation size

saved in liability reduction

WHAT IS Smart dig

Typical remediation and reclamation projects have a series of unknowns, and this has historically
generated a large number of cost overruns during project execution. With a limited budget in a typical year, clients have historically collected additional assessment data, and limited the amount of larger remediation programs.

ProDelta Projects Inc has spent five years working towards a solution, and the result is called Smart Dig™.

Smart Dig™is a paradigm shift in the way remediation and reclamation is completed at the frontline. The Smart Dig™ is utilizing technology in remediation/reclamation projects as well as generating a better understanding of the remediation/reclamation process.

Key Benefits of Smart Dig™ are:

• Visual and Transparent Data
• Build Cost Certainty in Execution Planning
• Decrease Project Costs
• Increase Safety of Workers
• Engages all Stakeholders (First Nations, General Public, Landowners, and Regulators)

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hOW SMART DIG WORKS

ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION MODELLING

ProDelta has developed a series of tools where they use historical environmental assessment data and survey data, generates a 3D model of the subsurface contamination and surface reclamation. This model is called an Environmental Information Model (EIM).
An EIM is a visual tool that can be sent out to all stakeholders to move the project in 3D and look at all the information that is available in a single interface.

EXCAVATION DESIGN

Based on the result of the EIM, ProDelta
designs an excavation. The excavation
design takes a series of parameters into
consideration and includes but not limited
to:

• Underground hazards
• Sensitive receptors
• Depth Dependent Standards/Guidelines
• Stratigraphy and Groundwater

EXECUTION

ProDelta integrates the excavation design into GPS Enabled Construction Equipment. The GPS Enabled equipment takes ProDeltas design and gives the operator a real time view of the excavation design.

An operator knows where the excavator bucket
is in relation to the design within 3 cm at all
times.

COST ESTIMATING AND SCHEDULING

Following excavation design and quantity take
offs, ProDelta generates a detailed cost estimate
and schedule. In the cost estimate, ProDelta will
complete the following:

• Optimized Fleet Sizing
• Third Party Contractors (Trucking, Etc)
• First Nations Engagement Opportunities
• Schedule/Cost Scenario Comparison

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