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UNITED STATES : City of Sacramento Debuts Electronic Building Plan Submission Using Accela Software [TendersInfo (India)]
(TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Accela, Inc., the leading provider of cloud, web and mobile software applications for e-government, announced that the City of Sacramento s Community Development Department (CDD) has incorporated Accela s Electronic Document Review feature as the basis for the city s new e-plan check solution, launched today, which is designed to digitize the submittal, review and approval process for commercial building plans, and to remove the need to print costly and environmentally unfriendly paper documents. The city estimates that customers will save hundreds of dollars on reproduction costs alone by submitting their plans electronically initially on disks or flash drives, with online submittal capability via Accela Citizen Access software coming in the near future.
CDD serves a population of more than 470,000 and processes more than 13,000 building plans each year. ePlan Check is the latest new service to emerge from the city s Sacramento Streamline initiative, focused on saving time and money for businesses, the public, and the city. Sacramento s Fire, Utilities, Transportation, and Parks & Recreation departments also intend to utilize the Accela-based ePlan Check capability as integral team members of the general plan checking process, while CDD will extend ePlan Check service for use in residential building plans and Planning Entitlement Submittals later this year.
Electronic Document Review is a fully integrated plan and document review feature within Accela s enterprise Accela Automation® software and available to current customers at no additional charge. The feature enables government staff to incorporate document review and markups directly into the existing Accela Automation processes that automate, organize, and track reviews. It also provides end-to-end management of and access to electronic documents across department teams, helping boost compliance with local regulations and codes.
As an existing Accela customer, Sacramento was able to augment its investment in Accela Automation without the need to purchase a standalone plan review software package thereby improving the city s ease of integration, shortening deployment time, and benefiting civic budgets.
Sacramento is a city with a consistent commitment to technology innovation and customer service, said Chief Building Official Ryan DeVore, and our work with Accela has been a true public-private partnership. With Accela technology as an underpinning, we feel that our ePlan Check model could be applied to building and planning departments across the country. In only a few months since we announced Electronic Document Review, dozens of governments have expressed their interest in deploying this technology, said Darrell Lewis, Vice President of Product Management at Accela.
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