DPR COSEA Unifies Management of Critical Construction Project with Comprehensive Project Management Solution
 
 

DPR COSEA Unifies Management of Critical Construction Project with Comprehensive Project Management Solution

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A subsidiary of the VINCI Group, DPR COSEA is a consortium of companies commissioned to plan and build the South Europe Atlantic High Speed Line (LGV) between Tours and Bordeaux, France. Planned to begin service in July 2017, LGV is 189 miles long, with more than 25 miles of junctions. This project, amounting to US$10.1 billion, is Europe’s largest public-private partnership, and one of the largest infrastructure projects on the global stage.

DPR COSEA deployed Oracle solutions to uniformly manage the huge data volume associated with its critical construction project. With Oracle, DPR COSEA can enable all LGV construction participants to reliably access a highly available information system—without geographical limitation—from any office environment. The Oracle solution also enables DPR COSEA to create a central repository to optimize railway operation and maintenance throughout the consortium’s duration, and it provides a new collaborative environment for construction planning, synchronization, and centralized analyses.

 
 

 
 

Challenges

A word from DPR COSEA

  • “Our information system has to be reliable and highly available, around the clock, during construction of the South Europe Atlantic High Speed Line. A single day lost during the course of the project would mean losing several hundred thousand dollars. Oracle helps us to meet high availability requirements and remain constantly in operation.” – Bruno Chiumino, Chief Information Officer, DPR COSEA

  • Enable all participants involved in the South Europe Atlantic High Speed Line project to plan and build the railway using a geographic information system (GIS), project management, and electronic document management (EDM)
  • Deploy a shared services environment for more than 20 construction companies from different fields (electrical engineering, earthwork, and technical study teams) for more effective project collaboration
  • Implement an IT system that satisfies the company’s requirements for high availability, reliability, and safety as demanded by the crucial nature of the project
  • Guarantee necessary traceability, and auditability during the 50-year lifespan of the LGV consortium’s relationship with the state, providing transparency in the case of a public audit
  • Ensure information system durability and scalability to enable COSEA to respond to future LGV project demands and to use the system for other calls for tenders

Solutions

Oracle Product and Services

  • Provided project participants a three-component solution—document management, GIS, and project management—based on Oracle solutions, enabling more effective project management collaboration
  • Achieved uniform management of a critical construction project—South Europe Atlantic High Speed Line (LGV)—with a huge data volume, a budget totaling more than $10 billion, 4,500 contributing parties within a radius of 188 miles, and more than 900 engineering structures, including 19 viaducts
  • Offered the robust, highly available platform to 2,500 users, regardless of their geographical location or office environment, enabling up to 200 simultaneous connections to the GIS database and 300 concurrent connections to the EDM database, to access a total volume of 40 terabytes of data
  • Created a unique repository for the railway line based on Oracle Spatial, with the capacity to optimize operations and manage maintenance throughout the consortium’s lifetime to benefit from better control over the repository’s total cost of ownership
  • Improved productivity for the 30 project planners, enabling them to centrally synchronize and analyze drilling, engineering structures, and civil engineering planning data using Oracle's Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
  • Scheduled rolling out Oracle GoldenGate with the aim of integrating data extracted from multiple sources and ensuring service continuity during maintenance and future migrations to Oracle

Why Oracle

The volume of managed data, along with the performance and availability required by the project, made Oracle the logical choice over Microsoft for DPR COSEA. The company can now guarantee system availability, as well as reduce risk, improve cost controls, and meet deadlines, while restricting application development. Oracle is a long-term investment that enables VINCI and DPR COSEA partners to respond to very large-scale calls for tenders.

Partner

IBM is responsible for outsourced management of the GIS and EDM systems. IBM also developed disaster recovery and continuity of activities plans, based on a fully redundant architecture and replication of the databases via Oracle GoldenGate. Qualora Technology provides database administration support.