Case Study: NorthConnex achieves secure, efficient tunnel data management with 12d Synergy

NorthConnex cuts tunnel project file sizes by 80% with 12d Synergy

NorthConnex, a joint venture between Lendlease and Bouygues Construction, faced a massive data management challenge while constructing Australia's longest and deepest tunnel motorway. The project generated a tsunami of data, including 75,000 fieldwork submissions and millions of survey points, requiring a secure Common Data Environment that could support offline work, maintain strict QA, and optimize data transfer in constrained underground conditions. They turned to vendor 12d Synergy to implement its data management platform.

12d Synergy provided a centralized system that managed 880,000 files and 3.9 TB of data. The solution automated key workflows for plotting and reporting and introduced a new approach to handling large volumes of attribute data, which dramatically improved performance. This resulted in an 80%+ reduction in one project's size, from 8.2 GB to 1.3 GB, and cut file transfer times from 13 minutes to 2 minutes. 12d Synergy enabled the joint venture to turn overwhelming data into a manageable, productive, and secure project environment.

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