Siting
Project engineers often develop preliminary layouts before the overall designs are finalized. Appropriate deployment of the right visual tools is required to prevent confusion among stakeholders and communities when trying to process the overall impact of the project. Truescape helps shed light on design alternatives to effectively facilitate project discussions. Design alternatives include alternative layouts, access roads, construction, and land acquisition processes, etc. Accurately portrayed and viewed from a variety of locations, our work also highlights the environmental effects which can influence design decisions, such as seasonal change, through the use of TrueViews™. In addition, Truescape’s flyovers and ZVI (Zone of Visual Influence) images focus on the areas of potential concern and promote an understanding of the project’s design constraints that will ultimately drive the design strategy, allowing modifications and changes to be made in a timely and cost effective manner.
Public Outreach
While TrueViews™ are often commissioned during a project’s siting phase, they are useful throughout the planning and development timeline. In public outreach, a non-emotive, factual representation of what the project will look like is the first step to informing landowners and other external stakeholders on the comprehensive impact of the proposal. The sooner that stakeholders can accurately understand what is proposed, the easier it is to clarify misunderstandings, accelerating the decision-making process. TrueViews™ are comprehensive and objective, representing the project in a clear and straightforward manner so that all constituencies have the understanding needed to make informed decisions.
Regulatory Review and Permitting
In addition to providing TrueViews™, Truescape offers expert witness capabilities to support the independent and factual nature of our work in regulatory settings. This includes communicating the methodology and accuracy of TrueViews™ as it relates to the project at hand. As utility scale projects often cross governing jurisdictions, TrueViews™ are intended to serve as the gold standard in meeting and surpassing minimum regulatory requirements. TrueViews™ are evidence-grade and are produced to survey accuracy.
Construction
For developers and contractors, TrueViews™ help to de-risk the tendering process, enable financiers to understand the project, and assist with marketing to prospective investors or customers. Our tools can be used to explain to communities how the project will be constructed and how it will look at each stage of the construction timeline. TrueViews™ may also be used to illustrate many things such as their different construction methodologies.
Expert Witness
Truescape offers an independent and comprehensive expert witness service. Truescape expert witnesses have provided testimony in support of the accuracy of our images and animations in many jurisdictions and in many legal settings. Truescape testimony has evolved into one of the most experienced and respected services of its kind in the visualization sector, worldwide. Our expert witnesses also communicate the methodology and accuracy of our simulations at key public meetings, or in forums where simple explanations of technical facts are required to expedite the decision making process.