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eight acres. By capturing and updating asset data in real time, the Company’s deliverables enable the client to meet forthcoming regulatory requirements while improving operational efficiency. This approach enhances the management of gas-controlled and air- driven devices, ensuring the client is well-positioned to meet future regulatory requirements with confidence. “This assignment with a highly respected international operator demonstrates a well-deserved confidence in our survey and asset management capabilities with respect to addressing the evolving regulatory and operational challenges in the energy market,” said Gary Bowman, chairman and CEO of Bowman. “Bowman’s investment in technology and
collection tools enables us to collect, package, analyze and deliver a variety of complex geospatial, remote sensor and survey data in real-time. These multi- modal capabilities differentiate us with respect to our ability to contribute to the operational success of our customers across multiple industries.” Bowman is managing the project both in the field and remotely, utilizing a web- based platform for real-time tracking and geofence creation. By improving alarm recognition, streamlining maintenance processes, and ensuring accurate asset information, Bowman is enabling the client to address immediate operational needs while also laying the foundation for long-term improvements in efficiency, accuracy and asset reliability.
FOR AND REGULATORY COMPLIANCE TRACKING IN DELAWARE BASIN Bowman ASSET MANAGEMENT Consulting Group Ltd., a national engineering services firm delivering infrastructure solutions to customers who own, develop, and maintain the built environment, has entered into a $1.2 million contract from a leading exploration and production company to provide comprehensive asset management and regulatory compliance tracking services for over 1,000 wells in the Delaware Basin, Texas. Bowman’s scope of work includes conducting detailed field surveys of above-ground infrastructure assets across well sites ranging from one to
is slightly off. In one passage, Zhang describes the design of a simple beach house, assisted by an advanced “system” as follows: “I envision a huge expanse of windows… I expand, the system becomes my own memory. I fall through. I feel my mind’s boundaries... the system is there for me, a part of me. To modify the house, I only have to think it and it is so. It hangs there. I am outside it, seeing the long portion of the house that is the kitchen and the great room, off the kitchen the steps down to the beach… the bedrooms are beyond the kitchen, higher to take advantage of the uneven terrain… and I think that this Western building needs a tile roof. Blue Chinese tile. Soften the variation in the roof height, and the roof becomes a wave.” While this passage still remains a flight of science fiction fancy, history has shown that yesterday’s science fiction often becomes the science fact of today and tomorrow. I’ve seen the progressions of information technology time and again in my Methuselan journey. And this, I believe, is the long view of generative AI: Like the electronic scientific calculator, the advent of personal computers, Apple’s graphical user interface replacing IBM’s DOS, and CAD systems replacing hand drafting – generative AI is just another new tool in our toolbox, albeit of a much greater promise and to be rolled out with some caution. But there is a present and soon-to-be future where AI systems can merge seamlessly with our creativity, further enhancing – not replacing – our abilities as engineers, architects, designers, and AEC project and firm managers. Sam Liao , Ph.D., MBA, PE is principal consultant at Strategics, LLC, and adjunct faculty member at the University of New Hampshire. Contact him at sam.s.c.liao@gmail.com. This content was sponsored by BQE.
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pockets. The progression from Intel’s 8-bit processors to Nvidia’s graphics chips capable of super-speed advanced computations is astounding. Today, we hold in our hands smartphones more powerful than IBM’s house-sized computers of the 1970s, and potential access to the entire Earth’s store of knowledge through the internet and web- based applications. Artificial intelligence has been part of this evolution for some time. Early advancements focused on pattern, image, and voice recognition, but what is new and driving the evolution today, is that AI has become “generative.” Where once computer software could be taught to recognize the image of a cat, now it can generate one – even of a cat with green and pink fur – if we so desire. Hence the name of one of the more popularized systems – ChatGPT, where GPT stands for “generative pre-trained transformer.” This shift brings immense potential but also there have been concerns about “hallucinations,” the sometimes unintentional creation of misleading or fabricated information. It’s a cautionary note, similar to that of not blindly trusting the 10-decimal-place precision of our electronic calculators. My first experience with generative AI, specifically with ChatGPT, was reminiscent of the first time I held the HP- 35 calculator in my hand. There was a sense of awe – a recognition of newfound power and possibility, coupled with the thrill of imagining what might be achieved. Productivity, creativity, and quality seemed poised for another leap forward. But then, how to implement generative AI’s fullest capabilities and what comes next? This brings us to an award-winning science fiction novel from 1992: China Mountain Zhang by Maureen McHugh. Its protagonist, Rafael Zhang, is a design professional – a “construction engineer,” as she describes him, though the term
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