Case Study: City of Newcastle accelerates remote CAD collaboration with 12d Synergy

City of Newcastle accelerates remote CAD workflows in 4 weeks with 12d Synergy

The City of Newcastle, a local government organization in Australia, faced a significant challenge when its engineering design team needed to transition to remote work in 2020. Their existing project data management system was behind industry best practice, and working with large, complex datasets over a VPN was too slow and unreliable, creating major risks to data integrity and version control. The city needed a better solution to support remote work without compromising performance and turned to the vendor 12d Synergy for its data management platform.

The solution from 12d Synergy was implemented in just four weeks. It provided a secure, centralized platform that enabled remote work by only transferring changed data, improving speed and creating a single source of truth for project information. As a result, the engineering team transitioned to remote work without losing a day’s work. The implementation improved version control and collaboration with external contractors, and it evolved from a remote work solution into a full engineering Common Data Environment, accelerating the council's broader digital transformation.

City of Newcastle