UK Construction Market Report 1Q 2024
Visualise
Introducing Visualise:
The ultimate collaboration tool, Visualise enhances communication, reduces delays and minimises risks.
From managing post-contract changes to precise progress monitoring, Visualise ensures efficient project execution, making it indispensable for modern construction projects.
Challenges within the current economic landscape mean that the built environment must be more proactive in mitigating the risks that drive disputes and costly delays.
According to our recent survey, only one-fifth of the respondents reported not experiencing any claims on their projects within the last five years, while 15% reported experiencing claims on at least half of their projects.
At Gleeds, we embrace digital technologies to improve the way we safeguard our clients' interests and mitigate project risks. One successful example of this approach is the adoption of Visualise, a 360° digital reality capture solution that enables our project teams to work faster and smarter.
Visualise generates interactive virtual environments of sites before, during and post-construction, replacing traditional archaic methods involving mobile phones and static images to capture and communicate site conditions.
The use of Visualise has led to greater transparency, accountability, and confidence, creating a collaborative environment that is sorely needed to meet the various demands and challenges of construction projects.
Respondents ranked a number of issues as the main drivers behind the dispute or claim, including poor tender/contractual documentation, contract change, a lack of coordination and an overly ambitious tender programme.
Clients and project teams alike have reported tangible benefits associated with implementing Visualise and have improved their ability to minimise project risks. Such benefits include:
Collaboration
Promoting enhanced collaboration between all project stakeholders by providing a single source of truth to improve the speed and effectiveness of decision-making.
From managing post-contract changes to efficient defect management, all facets of post-contract communication and collaboration are enhanced with Visualise.
This effective collaboration reduces the risk of miscommunication, misunderstandings, ineffective coordination, project delays, cost overruns and disputes.
Comprehensive record documentation
Facilitating an accurate digital audit trail of the construction process, ensuring all activities and changes are documented and easily accessible.
This comprehensive record is invaluable for future reference, especially in relation to the Building Safety Act ‘golden thread’ and Part L compliance.
Tender and contractual documentation
In refurbishment projects, the digital twin created of existing site conditions improves the accuracy of tender and contractual documentation, ensuring robust prices received back from the market. This results in a reduction in post-contract changes and contractor pressures such as insolvencies.
Enhanced progress monitoring Providing a clear and easy-to-navigate 360° virtual environment of construction sites. Unimpeded access to the environment improves the ability of project teams to monitor progress, identify deviations, and take corrective actions promptly to help mitigate risks and foster a collaborative environment where the team can resolve issues before they escalate.
Accurate assessments
Leveraging the virtual walkthrough capabilities, project teams can conduct accurate, objective assessments (interim valuations, loss and expense, an extension of time, etc.) from anywhere in the world, helping organisations achieve sustainability targets.
The clear and easily accessible record promotes greater transparency, accuracy, and accountability, ensuring that correct decisions can be made quickly based on accurate, up-to-date information.
Efficiency and time savings Project teams benefit from increased flexibility and resource efficiency, enabling the realisation of challenging programmes.
Sustainability and economic pressures have squeezed construction budgets in recent times, resulting in more being required for less. This fact, coupled with ever-evolving UK legislation eliciting greater transparency and accountability of construction processes, presents a challenge that the built environment must rapidly address. Although there is no ‘silver bullet’, we can meet this challenge head-on by incrementally transforming traditional methodologies to maximise value and continue to safeguard clients’ interests, both present and future. The adoption of Visualise has proven to be a ‘game changer’ in the endless pursuit of keeping pace with modern demands.
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