{"id":244252,"date":"2019-06-23T23:55:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T06:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcnews&#038;p=244252"},"modified":"2019-06-20T12:44:39","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T19:44:39","slug":"new-kuwait-university-campus-incorporates-gis-from-the-outset","status":"publish","type":"arcnews","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcnews\/new-kuwait-university-campus-incorporates-gis-from-the-outset","title":{"rendered":"New Kuwait University Campus Incorporates GIS from the Outset"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[171,801,275982],"tags":[4381,163372,20422,173302,195782],"arcnews_issues":[362452],"class_list":["post-244252","arcnews","type-arcnews","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-operational-intelligence","category-vision","tag-apps","tag-arcgis-desktop","tag-arcgis-pro","tag-operations-dashboard-for-arcgis","tag-survey123-for-arcgis","arcnews_issues-summer-2019","arcnews_sections-your-work"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kuwait University is building a new campus: Sabah Al-Salem University City. GIS has been the backbone of the project since its inception.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Sabah Al-Salem University City, which will soon contain all the buildings and colleges associated with Kuwait University, is \u201cone of the largest educational campuses in the world,\u201d according to its website. Known as Sabah Al-Salem University City\u2014Kuwait University, or SSUC-KU, the campus is one of Kuwait\u2019s main development projects. GIS has been the backbone of SSUC-KU\u2019s project life cycle since the beginning and will continue to shape day-to-day activities at the university for years to come.\r\n<h2>Managing All Data and Assets with GIS<\/h2>\r\nPreviously, Kuwait University\u2019s colleges were scattered in different locations throughout the country. Traffic around those campuses was severe, and the buildings couldn\u2019t absorb the growing number of students.\r\n\r\nThe new, consolidated SSUC-KU campus has all the facilities and amenities needed to offer a modern education. In all, SSUC-KU\u2019s two campuses span 6 million square meters (2.3 square miles) and are designed to accommodate 40,000 male and female students, divided equally into male and female buildings to preserve Kuwait\u2019s traditions as an Islamic Arabic country. The main campus, which contains the university\u2019s 11 humanities and scientific colleges and covers 4 million square meters (1.5 square miles), consists of 22 buildings. The health sciences campus, which is still being designed, will fill 2 million square meters (.75 square miles) and host the university\u2019s 5 medical colleges in about 25 buildings."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":244292,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"The intention is to manage all SSUC-KU data\u2014whether spatial or nonspatial\u2014and assets using GIS. To achieve that, the campus\u2019s master plan was developed alongside the first version of its GIS data model, built using a combination of Esri\u2019s industry-specific data models, which cover all expected services, such as water, electricity, and telecommunications. As the construction process got under way, the data model needed to be extended to absorb new datasets, feature classes, domains, and subtypes. The latest version of the data model contains 29 datasets, 433 feature classes, 58 geodatabase tables, and 21 relationship classes.\r\n\r\nAs some of the colleges on the main campus were getting ready to receive students, which will happen this September, the team at Openware, Esri\u2019s official distributor in Kuwait and the GIS consultant on the project, used ArcMap and ArcGIS Pro intensively to ensure a smooth transition from the old university to the new campus. In fact, GIS became the primary decision-making tool at this time. Staff in various departments requested hundreds of reports to help them locate their spaces and services on maps. For example, employees in the department of libraries requested maps showing all the library facilities in each building so they could arrange their supplies and revamp their workflows. Staff in the services department, meanwhile, requested maps showing all the electrical rooms, telecommunications pathways and spaces, and more throughout the campus so they could situate their teams appropriately."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<h2>A Portal, Some Apps, and a Dashboard<\/h2>\r\nOnce the campuses are in full service, university staff, faculty, students, and visitors will need to be able to find various buildings and rooms, figure out where they need to go, and work out what they need to do on the new campus. Thus, Openware recently developed a bilingual\u2014Arabic and English\u2014mobile portal that contains search apps. The locate subsystem within the portal is built on Elasticsearch technology and utilizes the ArcGIS Indoors Information Model, which draws a route for each search result based on the user\u2019s current location. The portal also includes outdoor mapping functionality, which contains a map that shows the campus\u2019s street network and basic outdoor infrastructure, taken from the SSUC-KU master plan. The map can even be extended beyond the campus\u2014and throughout the entire state of Kuwait\u2014to make navigation to and from the area seamless.\r\n\r\nThe mobile portal contains various apps as well. One app allows inspectors with special privileges to generate work orders and assign tasks to field maintenance crews. The app consumes ARCHIBUS database tables inside Survey123 for ArcGIS forms, which together, with their standardized forms and tables, make it easier for inspectors to manage campus assets. For students, there is a study schedule app that provides users with academic information, including the course name, lecturer bio, place, and time; the academic calendar; a list of important dates for students and staff; and even a route map for how to get to specific classes or labs. Additionally, there is a geonotifications app that administrators can use to send alerts to university staff, faculty, students, and visitors about specific events or emergencies. Users will receive these notifications on their cell phones based on their location, movement, or nearby events."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":244302,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"To get the mobile portal and its apps working perfectly, the Openware team developed a web app to manage the administration web page. This lets users with administrative permissions set roles and privileges for other users and administer and configure push notifications.\r\n\r\nOf course, the flow of data through SSUC-KU\u2019s GIS, typically called \u201cflow of transmittals,\u201d is massive. Hence, it was necessary to control this process using a dynamic dashboard, which the Openware team built with Operations Dashboard for ArcGIS. The dashboard shows the number of transmittals by month, discipline, project, and business, as well as the review results for submitted packets of data, which are designated as approved, rejected, or accepted with notes. To show these statistics on the dashboard, it was necessary to design an ArcSDE table that specific users can access and edit to keep information up-to-date. Editing and tracking are also enabled so that management can know who is doing what and when.\r\n\r\nAt the campus level, water and electricity networks are managed and updated using Esri partner Schneider Electric\u2019s ArcFM solution, which is installed on top of ArcGIS Desktop. The campus\u2019s telecommunications network, however, is managed and updated using GDi Ensemble from Esri\u2019s official distributor in Croatia, GDi.\r\n<h2>Planning for the Future<\/h2>\r\nWith SSUC-KU\u2019s health sciences campus currently under design, the project team is incorporating even more sophisticated enterprise technology. To support the operations and decision-making processes, for example, this campus\u2019s building data will be delivered in a building information modeling (BIM) format that is compatible with the university\u2019s current GIS schema. This will allow staff at SSUC-KU to simulate all the buildings and their complete services, including water, electricity, and telecommunications. By 2021, when the health campus is fully designed and construction begins, the flow of transmittals in both GIS and BIM formats will be incorporated into SSUC-KU\u2019s geodatabase, enriching the campus\u2019s GIS content.\r\n\r\nFor more information, email Eyad Ghattasheh, a GIS consultant at Openware, at <a href=\"mailto:e.ghattasheh@openware.com.kw\">e.ghattasheh@openware.com.kw<\/a>."}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Kuwait University Campus Incorporates GIS from the Outset<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kuwait University is building a new campus: Sabah Al-Salem University City. 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