Platform
Distribution Design Studio (DDS) enables the highest level of design and construction productivity, compliance, and performance.
Field Tools
Safety and accuracy are paramount.
With DDS Designer, field data collection is safer and twice as fast. With just a smartphone or tablet, one engineer can efficiently and accurately map and record detailed project site elevations and obstructions while avoiding challenging or hazardous terrain. By allowing a smaller set of standards to serve a wider set of location, environmental, and business use cases, DDS Designer simplifies the designer’s work by creating a path to the required equipment – greatly reducing errors and return trips to the field.
Safer, accurate, one-person field data collection in all terrains – without brush cutting.
Reduce field time by 50%, streamlining your design and construction schedules.
Office Tools
In the office, DDS has an embedded engineering engine that enables fast structural, clearance and electrical calculations to assure cost-effective design projects conform to industry and utility specifications and standards – the first time.
Give your designers a quick method to resolve issues and continue with their work.
Visualization
Clarity is power.
With 3-D visualization, designers can easily show contractors and customers how the proposed structures and underground facilities will look in the real world environment. This gives the engineer the ability to achieve faster shared clarity and consensus with customers and contractors about design options or areas of concern that may not be easily apparent in 2 dimensional sketches.
3-D proof of concept visualizations greatly improve construction accuracy and customer experience, saving your engineers dozens of man hours per year in design rework while shortening acceptance and build cycle times.
Integrations
Flexibility is freedom.
DDS integrates with 100% of utility and industry design assets, from hundreds of construction standards and thousands of parts and components, into one seamless workspace.
DDS integrates and interfaces with any GIS and WMS, giving your engineers the freedom to perfect their design craft, not become GIS and WMS technicians. From accepting project work assignments, submitting rigorous project plans, to checking construction status, DDS empowers engineers to complete highly optimized design projects end-to-end using one powerful platform.
DDS’ broad integration capability reduces duplication of effort by 50-70%.