Case Study: Seattle City Light achieves faster project delivery and regulatory compliance with Accruent Meridian

How Seattle City Light has used Meridian for more than 20 years to implement controls and workflow processes to find up-to-date asset information

Seattle City Light, the municipal utility serving Seattle since 1910, struggled to manage and track some 300,000 engineering documents and drawings without a single source of truth. Inconsistent drawing properties, unclear workflows, and loose change control made searches, revision tracking, and project delivery inefficient and risked regulatory noncompliance.

By deploying Accruent Meridian for engineering document management—with AutoCAD integration, bi-directional title-block syncing, consistent metadata, web access for field crews, and easy revision comparison—45 engineers and designers control changes while ~85 operations and project staff view current records. The solution accelerated project delivery, boosted productivity, improved engineering–operations collaboration, simplified audits, and ensured compliance with FERC, NERC, CEII and state archival requirements after nearly 20 years of use.

Seattle City Light

Janet Hart

Technical Services Manager, Generation Operations & Engineering