Indigenous Infrastructure

Water, roads, buildings, and fleet in one system — with condition data that supports E-ACRS cycles and reports ready when Council or ISC needs them.

Public works needs more than a water-only tool

Critical systems span water, roads, civic buildings, and equipment — often tracked in separate places, or not tracked at all until something breaks.

LOUIS Assets gives public works one register with map context, inspections, work orders, and the evidence to support funding requests — at a scale built for Indigenous communities.

Public works crew recording an infrastructure inspection in the field

Asset types in one system

Water & wastewater

Treatment and distribution with maintenance history on the map.

Roads & bridges

Condition assessments and work orders for linear assets.

Buildings

Band offices, community centres, schools, fire halls.

Fleet & equipment

Scheduled maintenance and utilization tracking.

Utilities

Electrical and heating infrastructure where modeled.

Shared with housing

When housing and assets use the same system, water and electrical questions don't land on the wrong department.

What public works teams rely on

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Ticket transparency

Know who has the work and where it sits — accountability your leadership expects.
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Map-backed assets

Locate infrastructure on the map and open the record from the same screen — when emergency services need a location fast, or leadership asks about an asset and its work history.
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Field inspections

Collect condition data where the asset is, including where offline access is supported.
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Right level of detail

Model critical equipment and maintenance your crew can sustain — combine related work on tickets instead of over-fragmenting every part.
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Funding-ready reports

Digitized maintenance history means reports when the window opens — not weeks of file gathering.
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ISC-aligned exports

Structured reporting for Indigenous Services Canada and capital planning.
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Financial data integration

Connect work order costs and capital project spend to your general ledger where available — operational and financial evidence on the same asset record.
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Data sovereignty & OCAP®

Your community owns and controls its data. Access and export policies aligned to OCAP® principles — ownership, control, access, and possession.

Support for the E-ACRS program

Indigenous Services Canada's Extended Asset Condition Reporting System (E-ACRS) is part of the Capital Facilities and Maintenance Program. About every three years it arranges condition inspections of ISC-funded infrastructure. Your community receives findings in an executive summary; ISC uses that data to update its Integrated Capital Management System (ICMS).

That inspection cycle sets the baseline — but public works teams need asset and condition records kept current the rest of the year, not only when the next visit is scheduled.

LOUIS Assets is the system your team runs day to day — maps, inventory, inspections, and maintenance between E-ACRS cycles and after, where that asset information lives and stays usable year-round.

  • Living condition register — keep asset and component condition current, not only when a consultant visit is due
  • Inspections on the map — field assessments tied to each asset, with history your team can update
  • Lifecycle and capital planning — track deficiencies, replacement timing, and maintenance so E-ACRS findings feed ongoing community planning
  • Reports at hand — pull condition and maintenance evidence for Council, funders, and ISC reporting — without rebuilding files from scratch
Public works staff reviewing infrastructure maps and asset records in the office

A living register your team keeps current

Software your team uses weekly

Ongoing asset management — condition, tickets, and history that stay with the assets week to week.

All asset types together

One system for the full civic portfolio — less training, fewer silos, one place to answer Council.

Supported rollout

Start with a core asset class, train on real data, expand when the team is ready — with clear communication throughout.

Data sovereignty & OCAP®

Public works data — asset locations, inspections, work history — belongs to your community. LOUIS supports information governance aligned to OCAP® principles, with access and export policies discussed before go-live.

References

Our client list is privileged information. Indigenous community references for infrastructure and public works are available on request.

See LOUIS for public works

Request a demo — we'll walk through infrastructure, condition, and Council reporting with realistic examples. Training will be delivered using your data.