3 New Ways to Leverage Your Construction Data

Put your construction site data to work for your business

Tracking data is nothing new to the construction industry. In fact, the STACK Preconstruction Technology Report noted that 77% of those surveyed believe that “software provides a strategic advantage” for their construction businesses. It’s easy to see that most teams are now embracing not only the need to be utilizing the technology they already have, but also looking toward new ways to track even more data in better and more efficient ways. And this vast improvement in data collection practices has prompted construction teams to address a new he question: how best to use this data to improve their business. 

Better Safety Practices

Capturing better data on your construction sites can make it easy to spot safety issues and trends for your entire team. While there are easy ways to identify risky processes and try to delegate those to machinery, some things simply require a human touch. Looking at your safety data can help you better understand trends and risks on your job sites and help you minimize accidents or injuries on them.

For example, if you’re tracking detailed executions of Lockout Tagout procedures, you can leverage this data to identify potential risk factors. If you’ve already switched to a digital LOTO form template, then you can have all of this information instantly routed to your safety team for daily review as well, helping you identify those risks and trends even faster. This insight can help you build better safety practices, and even update your LOTO forms to fit your team’s exact needs.

Data around your safety procedures also means the ability to quickly identify which team members have missing or outdated training, what safety gear or PPE is required for an upcoming job, or even which pieces of equipment may be in need of routine maintenance. This information, especially when captured digitally, creates a safer environment for your team across all your construction sites.

Enhanced Communication Between Office and Site Teams

Everything in your business can run smoother when everyone is on the same page, and that includes even more than construction site safety. Improving communication between your teams is an easy way to streamline all aspects of your business, and leveraging the data you’re already capturing is an efficient way to do it. By tracking detailed information across your job sites, and leveraging a digital file storage or compilation platform, you can make sure all job site data is immediately accessible to anyone in your office. 

While improved communication throughout your job sites is critical to effectively completing a job, and keeping everyone safe in the process, enhanced communication throughout your entire organization can yield even better results. Ensuring that everyone in the office knows the status of each project, and that everyone on the job site understands the needs and intentions of the client, is key to streamlining every construction project. If you’re tracking the details of how each construction project is progressing, and your office team has real-time access to this data, you can easily keep customers informed of their project status.

Better Materials and Business Tracking

Let your data give you the insight you need for tracking your costs to streamline and improve your bidding and forecasting processes. By keeping detailed records of all materials as they’re used on a job site, you can better leverage that information. This can include better forecasting for waste on comparable projects, while also ensuring all your invoicing and vendor orders are correct. If you’re using a digital means of tracking, such as a digital form, this can also ensure detailed accuracy throughout the workday that doesn’t require trying to remember or compile material costs at the end of the day.

Enhanced features like image and GPS capture, even the ability to add notes or sketches to any captured data point, can provide supplemental information in case there are unforeseen costs or materials. This can not only help you provide more transparency around the work to your customers, but it can also help you better plan for future jobs that may have similar hiccups.

Whether you’ve implemented digital safety forms for construction or you’re keeping track of project details on the go, digital data gives you more power over your business. In a world where every advantage can mean the difference between business expansion or closure, it’s a great time to get the most out of your construction data.

About GoFormz

GoFormz is a digital forms solution that helps bring your data into a single, actionable place. We believe that everyone should be able to fill out their forms online and deliver products and services that redefine how people and businesses collect and process information. No matter what your construction sites look like, GoFormz is ready to bring your processes to the digital realm. Complete with a mobile forms app with online and offline accessibility, your teams in the office and on-site can always have up-to-date information as soon as they need it.