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THE SUCCESS IN SAVING TIME

There are many ways to measure success. While it’s easy to look at such metrics in terms of profits or cost savings on material goods, when it comes to construction, it’s also about saving time. The dashboards figure heavily into this benefit as well.

“Let’s say a safety manager needs to see the safety metrics and know in real time what’s happening,” Moustapha explains. “Now they just go to the InEight project dashboard, and right away they’re able to associate something that happened in safety to an environmentally related incident.” And, as users of the InEight® Document solution, Moustapha’s team will have another system at its disposal for automatic reporting.

Saving time applies to the ability to pull reports as well. “We are able to see over 30 types of forms on the project and where they stand along the flow,” Moustapha says. These include procurement service reports which previously had to be pulled manually. “Every week one of our team members would sit and do it. It was part of his job that took up hours,” Moustapha explains, “Now it’s just a click on the dashboard and it’s done.” Another team member in project controls was spending four hours of his Sunday every week pulling up an engineering service during construction report. “We were wasting so much time on repetitive tasks. With the InEight dashboard, people can literally get some of their lives back.”

Williams agrees and adds that this reclamation of time creates a positive ripple effect. “So if one person saves four hours, and another person creating a PowerPoint® saves two, and another reformatting a file saves even one hour — with hundreds of people over years of a project, it’s easy to see how it all starts to add up to huge chunks of time,” she says.