Use the ARX Platform to Efficiently Make Informed Wastewater Infrastructure Decisions.
Rapidly Evaluate, Plan, Cost, and Propose While Maintaining Full Project Oversight.
The ARX Platform™ empowers your users to easily plan, cost, and propose the optimal wastewater collection solution for your requirements. ARX, Built on the Esri advanced geographic information system, utilizes standard engineering design rules, considers government regulations and local policies to facilitate rapid planning and decision-making with less risk.
There’s more: The ARX Platform leverages industry-standard, third-party data and local construction costs to estimate Capital Expenditure (CapEX), project sustainability, and multi-year Operating Expenditure (OpEx). ARX expedites decision-making, and can be used to streamline approval and bidding processes – substantially reducing project timeframes and planning costs.
Who Uses The ARX Platform?
Use ARXinfrastructure to drive faster investment decisions and speed time to profit.
Streamline design and cost analysis: Win more business, serve clients faster, and deliver more projects.
Lead wastewater collection projects with confidence, speeding the entire process at lower cost.
ARX Platform: The Five Engines
1. Design Engine
Define constraints and assumptions
An expert system that strips out complexity and enables non-experts to define parcel maps within project boundaries and service areas, include terrain characteristics, regulations, and other known conditions.
Generate feasible infrastructure alternatives
ARX evaluates wastewater layouts and collection methodology alternatives based on parcels and zoning types within the boundaries, sight conditions, and engineering logic.
Analyze hydraulic performance
For each alternative, the ARX platform identifies the Hydraulic Grade Line (HGL) to estimate system capacity and performance limits to create preliminary feasibility reports, including the basis for cost analyses.
Visualize tradeoffs clearly
Alternatives are visually compared side by side to enable layouts, hydraulics, and methods, and cost ranges to provide succinct, comprehensive, and clear information for early decision-making.
2. CapEx Engine
Estimate capital costs as designs are developed
Early cost estimates are produced and refined as assumptions improve. Estimates progress from feasibility-level ranges toward near bid-level accuracy. Overcomes typical problem of underestimating up-front costs.
3. OpEx Engine
Understand lifetime operational expenses—energy, operations, replacements/repair
Comprehensive operating costs are estimated and detailed, comprising maintenance, energy consumption, and expected replacements/repair over time.
4. FINANCIAL Engine
Provide a life-cycle cost estimate for funding alternatives
Generate a feasibility report that documents assumptions, alternatives, hydraulic findings, and cost ranges. The report supports alignment and funding discussions.
5. ASSET MANAGEMENT Engine
Long-term Operational Management & Planning
Project and track operational performance, anticipate replacements, plan for expansion.
Integrate ARX Seamlessly Into Your Workflow
The ARX Platform works in tandem with Esri behind the scenes. If you use other tools, you can connect your ARX Platform right into your workflow for greater speed and quicker clarity for your design process.
The ARX Platform Benefits
Maintain Oversight and Collaboration
The ARX Platform visual representation of in-ground infrastructure and cost data enables you to easily understand the full context of designs while collaborating throughout the project.
Better, More Confident Decisions
The ARX Platform enables you to consider all the options up front: collection system type, pipe layouts, and material selection. Data-driven insights eliminate guesswork; upfront regulatory considerations, local cost data, hydraulic considerations, and other factors provide the full picture.
Faster Planning Cycles
Slash planning timeframes from months to days. Easily automate tedious, manual efforts via Esri, Autodesk, and Asset Management tool integrations. Visual representations enable clear views and rapid decision-making.
Instantly Review the Impact of Changes.
The ARX intuitive user interface makes it fast and easy to make alterations at any time, from initial planning to engineering change orders, with automatic cost updates in real time.
Shrink Project Timeframes and Costs
Rapid, informed early decisions reduce false starts and mitigate risks redundant studies, redesign, and rework. Further, the ARX Platform significantly reduces planning and evaluation timeframes that directly translate into cost savings and efficient use of capital.
