George Leslie is a privately owned civil engineering contractor established in 1964. With a turnover of £130m and a dedicated team of 450 employees, the company operates across critical sectors including water, marine, energy, power, defence and flood protection. Committed to innovation, George Leslie has partnered with Trimble to implement a new connected workflow designed to streamline connectivity between field and office, grow productivity levels and improve collaboration.
Challenges
Before adopting the connected workflow, George Leslie’s process for delivering LiDAR survey data was manual and time-consuming. The initial process involved:
Completing a survey on-site.
Exporting data and downloading it to a USB.
Manually transferring the data from the USB to a laptop and then uploading it to the office system.
This traditional "siloed" approach took approximately 8 hours to complete for a single survey. The lack of real-time connectivity between the field and the office led to considerable delays in data accessibility, negatively impacted on engineers’ productivity and hindered collaborative decision-making.
“The old workflow we had in place was insufficient for the resources we had within the company. We were spending too much time sharing and processing information, and due to the size of the files we were experiencing failed uploads. The integration between platforms didn’t exist whatsoever, so we were double-handling a lot of data.” — Michael Kennedy | Lead Document Controller
