We provide ongoing GIS support services to Seattle's public electric utility. Our work together has included performing user needs assessment, strategic planning, designing and implementing a state-of-the-art Geographic Information System and adapting a suite of Esri-based software tools optimized to support specific users and workflows. Let us know if you'd like to have a conversation about system design, tailored software, or on-call support services.

Pike Electric is one of the U.S.'s leading service providers for electrical infrastructure. The Gartrell Group has enjoyed a successful working partnership with Pike for many years. Together, we have designed and developed a number of innovative solutions using Pike’s Esri software tool base. For each project, the goals have been to bring Pike and their customers greater accuracy and efficiency in work related to infrastructure planning, construction and maintenance. These solutions have been used to identify and monitor sensitive environmental and habitat resources, to manage right-of-way negotiations in the build-out of major transmission corridors, and to inform response strategies following natural disasters impacting the electrical grid.

We are currently working with Pike to design the next generation of a mapping tool suite used to support the work of Pike's field teams in auditing the condition and use of utility poles and other electrical assets. With integrated web management tools and a tablet app that works in the varied conditions that Pike's field crews encounter on a daily basis, the system ensures both efficiency and accuracy in the work of field teams and delivers real-time progress tracking capabilities to the project managers and the back office.

Our friends at Ecometrix Solutions and The Nature Conservancy engaged us to design and build a suite of mapping tools to help locate, define, and quantify ecosystem services and functions on real property. Initially funded by a $10M grant from the Dow Foundation to the Nature Conservancy, the mapping tool suite is now being used on Dow's industrial campuses across the globe and has been adopted by a diverse group of private, public, and not-for-profit organizations seeking ways to track and monitor nature as an asset and to incorporate the value of nature in their decision making. 

We work in close partnership with the admired GIS team at the Port of Portland, designing, developing and supporting a contemporary and performance-oriented toolkit of web mapping and visualization components. Contact us if you'd like to learn more.

Our team is currently supporting Portland's Bureau of Environmental Services in developing unique stormwater infrastructure models to help the City identify risks and prioritize water system infrastructure investment. The multivariate, adaptive models incorporate a large number of business rules and data inputs that may be weighted and flexibly intertwined to produce telling information about where the City most needs to devote improvement efforts and resources to meet its strategic objectives.

We enjoy an enduring work relationship with a number of the different departments and functional teams at Oregon Metro, the metropolitan planning organization that serves the Portland region. Recent engagements have included: 

• strategic planning support to help the Information & Analysis Team optimize their service definition and delivery

• re-platforming the agency's Esri geodatabases 

• development of data distribution and visualization tools to serve the agency's public and partners

• designing and developing a new version of the heavily used API for the Regional Land Information System (RLIS)