Information from the site reaches the office too late
On a construction site, what was actually built often reaches the office only at the end of the week, by phone or through a table filled in from memory.
By then, an overrun in material consumption or a delay at a critical stage has already had a week to get worse. In a trade with tight margins and late-delivery penalties, that information lag is the most expensive thing in the project.
What the application tracks
- A daily report from a phone: what was built, who was present, what the weather was
- Photographs from the site, tied to their stage and their date
- Material consumption per job, compared against the bill of quantities
- Timesheets per person and per site, subcontractors included
- Physical progress by stage, as the basis for progress statements
- Issues and non-conformities, with an owner and a deadline
Designed for site conditions
On a site there is not always a signal, and a phone gets used with gloves on, in bright sun, or with one hand.
So the application works without a connection and sends the data once the signal returns, and the screens are built with few fields, large buttons and as many values pre-filled as possible.