Case study
Rochdale Riverside Project
Three specialist contractors go paperless to boost efficiency, save time and streamline site reporting with Trimble Field View across the Upperbanks project.
Impact
- Cut manual admin time with instant digital forms
- Gained real-time visibility across projects
- Reduced site–office back-and-forth
- Used trend analysis to prevent repeat issues
At a glance products
It's quick, it's easy. It's open to every sector of the business for everyone to see where each project is, where we are to manufacture, where we are with delivery. We use Field View reporting on a daily basis on all aspects of the business: health and safety; quality program; manufacture; delivery of product to site.
— Stephen Parker
managing director, Sigmat
Introduction
Field View is being used on the second phase of the Rochdale Riverside project, titled Upperbanks. This will include two blocks of nine and ten story apartment blocks delivering 242 one- and two-bedroom apartments. It will also feature a 146-bedroom hotel and the potential of 43,000 sq ft of offices.
Not only is Field View being used by the main contractor at the helm of the project, Willmott Dixon, but three specialist contractors are also using their own Field View solution on the build.
Firstly, RED Systems is a structural facades specialist subcontractor. Next, Sigmat is the leading European manufacturer of cold rolled steel components and panelled structural steel frames. Lastly, part of the Cara Group, the Cara Brickwork operates throughout the UK with offices in the North West, Yorkshire and Merseyside.
By using Field View, the three varying businesses have managed to take site processes that were laborious and time-consuming and turn them paperless. The result? They’re saving time, money and their sanity.
Let’s have a closer look at how these three businesses did it.
The challenge
Using paper instead of digital can feel like treading water, making little progress. Information is captured, but nothing meaningful is done with it, and eventually it can become misplaced.
Michael Green, managing director at RED Systems, explains the problems, “all of our health and safety and quality was done by paper. The problem with paper systems we found was, obviously with site conditions, it's difficult to keep paperwork. Sometimes the office facilities aren’t adequate on site. And then we had inconsistency across the projects, with different standards of recording information.”
