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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Good Afternoon,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please share the following information with others in the Bridge Community we may have missed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">NEW VERSION OF BrM 5.2.3 AND REWRITTEN BRIDGE INSPECTION (PONTIS) REPORTS WILL BE INSTALLED AND AVAILABLE AT END
OF MARCH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Project Team from the Bridge Engineering unit</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> has been working with the Transportation
Application Development (TAD) group </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">for the last 5 months to get ready to install a new version of the BrM application (<b>5.2.3</b>) and to rewrite the Bridge Inspection
reports to be compatible with this new version of BrM and its database. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The newly rewritten BrM Reports application (formerly called PONTIS Reports) will have the same reports and functionality as the current Reports with some
additional features added. Later this month, we will be sending you some helpful “TIPS” for filtering and creating each of the reports.
<b>Due to changes in the file naming conventions and folder structure, there may be some delay in gaining access to timber boring diagrams and other supplemental reports.<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The new BrM application and the new BrM Reports will be installed at the end of March. We are planning on closing down the application and the reports
starting on March 26<sup>th</sup> and reopening on March 30<sup>th</sup>. We will update you again closer to these dates to ensure this timeframe is still valid.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The BrM Application, its accompanying database, and the newer BrM Reports will be moving to new hardware servers, too, so we will be sending out the
<b>new URL link</b> as the old one you have been using will not work after the installation and with the move to the new servers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The external users of the BrM Reports, which includes consultants, contractors, and other state and local agency representatives, will be getting
<b>new</b> Login Id’s and temporary passwords. This will be sent to each of the external users in an email close to the end of March. The current ODOT users of BrM and PONTIS Reports (<b>now called BrM Reports</b>) will continue to use your current ODOT User
Id and password.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:120%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Please contact
<span style="color:red">Joseph Bond or Bruce Novakovich if you have any questions or concerns.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank you,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Bruce V. Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">State Bridge Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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