SMA - Sample Management Application
“The SMA generates the deliverables you need to complete your Phase 2 ESAs directly from your field data in real time”
What is the SMA?
The Sample Management Application (SMA) is a customized data collection and generation tool that automates the Phase 2 process for you!
The SMA allows users to digitally collect, summarize and present site soils condition data from the field the Phase 2 assessment process.
Why did we create the SMA?
It’s simple, we wanted to automate the Phased Environmental Assessment process!
Over decades of experience executing Phased Environmental Assessments, we’ve seen a lot of changes in the industry. Community stakeholder, regulator and client expectations for Asset Retirement Obligations (ARO) have drastically evolved with all parties demanding reliable quality results be delivered as efficiently and timely as possible.
In our own experience as field staff and senior project managers we found that we struggled with the quality of data we could collect in the field, the quality of the field documents we were reviewing for make real-time execution decisions, the time strain that quality review put on senior staff, streamlining the report writing process, struggling with data stored in multiple places and a lack of consistency in the deliverables between industry service providers.
With a massive portfolio of unreclaimed assets across North America and thousands of Phased Investigations to conduct we saw a massive opportunity to rethink and reform the standard environmental workflow through collaboration and the practical application of field-based technologies so we set out to build them!
What does the SMA do?
The SMA automatically generates everything you need for your Phase 2 Environmental Site Assessments including:
Borehole Logs
Site Layout Figure
Parameter Exceedance Locations Figure
Lab Chain of Custody (COC) forms
Analytical Data Tables
Exceedance Summary for your Record of Site Condition (RoSC) Submission
What are some of the benefits of using the SMA?
No more scanned scribbles from the field
The SMA automatically generates borehole logs, field notes, a sample list, figures, and a Chain of Custody (CoC) for the lab right in the field and delivers them directly to your Project Manager’s inbox. No more waiting for field staff to scan in hand scribble notes, no more lost logs, no more trying to make sense of field sketches. Get system generated deliverables right now!
Automatic Visuals in the Field
Soil logs and a site figure are generated instantly on the screen as field staff enter location and soils data, providing them an instant visual feedback to help them conceptualize the subsurface and better understand their site.
Create the basis for your Phase 2; almost instantly
Figures, borehole logs, analytical tables and a summary of exceedances for your Record of Site Condition submission (RoSC)…. you’ve just generated everything you need to form the basis of your Phase 2 report and your Conceptual Site Model! Almost instantly!
Shaves Hours off of Review Times
Have confidence in your borehole logs, figures and analytical tables as they are instantly generated by the SMA. No more data transcription errors or hours of professional review time. Save crucial (and costly) professional time for innovative problem solving, creative solution implementation and employee development!
Automated Analytical Table Generation
Just add PIR-a as a recipient for your analytical data and let us do the rest. Our system will generate crisp analytical tables comparing your soils data against the Alberta, Saskatchewan, or British Columbia guidelines of your choice. No more transcription errors, complicated table formulas or heaven forbid MANUAL exceedance identification! Table data accuracy is finally guaranteed with the SMA.
What else does the SMA do?
The SMA features intuitive navigation and simple data entry throughout, ensuring a user-friendly experience for all users.
The SMA consolidates your data into a standardized format allowing users to easily identify and rectify field entry errors in the field or from your desk.
Our standardized file formats provide clean no fuss deliverables and ensure we can provided them to you at the most effective price point possible!
Immediate back up of all field entries on your device and our PIR-a servers means no more lost field sheets and easily accessbile data in the future.
The PIR-a feedback tool ensures that we are always getting better!
