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De-risk with construction data

How to strengthen QA and stay compliant

Procore’s Quality Essentials & Analytics dashboard is changing the way construction companies manage large workforces and complex projects.

Most construction sites are sitting on a mountain of data–how much of it is actually getting used is questionable but what is for certain is how valuable it is. 60% of Australian construction companies say defects are less likely to occur in sites where data analysis guides the process.*[1]

So what does that mean for your business and how can you make your data work for you?

Looking at the current construction landscape, we have not been short of challenges. From the global pandemic, labour shortages and price hikes, the ability to use data to our advantage and make informed decisions can mark the difference between industry leaders and followers.

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So how is data differentiating those who can finish projects to time, to budget and to a high standard whilst maintaining immaculate compliance? In short, technology. The right technology can help you retrieve, track and visualise data and stay compliant throughout a project. Having the ability to track a project’s compliance, identify any uncertainties and minimise the occurrence of defects is what is going to ultimately make a difference in an efficient, quality delivery.

Gone are the days of Excel spreadsheets and disparate systems. Today, construction businesses need a digital roadmap to leveragefrom site, monitor and adhere to local regulations and make smarter decisions using that data.

Procore’s Quality Essentials & Analytics dashboard is a set of prebuilt inspections covering five building elements. These feed into an analytics dashboard to measure compliance, areas for improvement, as well as provide quality insights. The insights pulled through to the dashboard, are the exact type of data that will mitigate risks that cause defects – which slow down delivery and speed up expenditure. The more data we have at hand, the easier it is to stay compliant and defects are less likely to occur.

So why is this more important now than ever before?

Following instances that hit global media like the Miami Condo Complex or Mascot Towers, compliance and safety practices are at the forefront of any builder’s mind. At this stage, the five major areas of concern where compliance is predicted to become tighter and tighter, and those which Procore has created templates for are:

  1. Fire Safety Systems
  2. Waterproofing Systems
  3. Structural
  4. External Cladding
  5. Building Services

There are increasing demands to boost quality in these areas, and as a builder, the added challenge becomes documentation. That’s why templates for the above issues are essential in proving compliance to industry standards as well as identifying a single source of truth for all stakeholders involved in the build.

Quality Essentials provides regulatory support, data and workflows needed to support site audits. But on top of that, it provides a transparent digital solution to showcase compliance and minimise defects. No longer will you find the proof for quality assurance on paper. The need for a digital solution has already proven necessary and will only grow to play a bigger role in construction going forward.

Book a demo and learn more about Quality Essentials today.

 

[1] * FMI Report * Survey of 153 Australian construction leaders on data-driven quality and compliance, conducted by ACA Research in June 2021.

 

 

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