3 Unique Trends in Construction Workforce Development
The construction industry has dealt with labour shortage issues for years. With a lack of interest amongst high school and college graduates wanting to join the skilled-labour force, the industry has turned to unique methods to try to create enthusiasm towards working...
Women in Construction: How to Thrive by Showing Up and Standing Out
According to CNBC, women make up a mere 9.1% of the construction community. Few men know what it is like to walk into a room full of women and have all their attention turn to you. For women in construction, it’s a common occurrence to be the only female in a panel...
4 Tips to Survive an Uncertain Market
Uncertainty is the only thing that is for certain right now in construction. 2020 has taken us all for a ride; pulling us back and forth between calm and hysteria, with our only reprieve being time spent in the unsettled feeling of uncertainty. The emotional,...
Cutting costs and maximising your resources
When businesses are put under pressure to deliver, whether that is through the unprecedented times of today to the everyday challenges of running a business, determining how best to manage your costs starts with visibility. To determine what is the optimum route for...
Top 5 Tips for Growth – when thinking systems
Step 1: Start with the end in mind Often companies have several systems and legacy systems which do not talk to each other. I always recommend starting with what your company looks like if everything is running smoothly and how do you see this is 2-5years time. For...
Local excavations business paves the way as early adopter of tech
The construction industry is one of the least digitised industries in the world. Locally, the majority of contractors in the construction space use paper-based operations. Common practices include paper timesheets, dockets and forms. Furthermore, the use of a...
GUEST BLOG: A New Era in Traffic Management
Never before had the traffic management industry considered the concept of one person per vehicle, or the inability to review plans in close proximity to a fellow traffic controller. We are living in a new era where social distancing and Teams and Zoom meetings have...
NEW: Integrate Assignar with over 1000 apps
A regular question we get at Assignar is: Can you integrate Assignar with X, and can Assignar import/export my data to and from X? The answer is yes and there are a couple of options to integrate Assignar and import/export data. 1. You can use the Assignar API to have...
Navigating through COVID-19 with a paperless solution
Safety continues to be the number one priority for sub and self-perform contractors during these unprecedented times. SafeWork Australia has created guidelines to support businesses to navigate through COVID-19. This comes new and complex challenges. For example,...
Checklist: Do you have the infrastructure to keep building?
During these changing times, construction businesses are testing the limits of their infrastructure in preparation for further restrictions amid the pandemic. Rapidly changing the way you operate a business without proper time, preparation, and investment quickly...
CJ’s Demolition tackling COVID-19
Take 5 is a series of fireside chats with customers and industry partners who share their industry insights to support and educate the construction industry, from the unprecedented circumstances that we face today, to the everyday challenges of running a business in...
7 tools to keep your construction business running while working remotely
Construction businesses that are most vulnerable during times of economic uncertainty are those that are slow to react. Often paper-based processes for communicating crucial information between the office and the field necessitates face to face interactions. This...
Operational excellence to business development success
Many sub and self-perform businesses are still bogged down in administrative activities. Despite hiring more admin staff, the workload remains largely manual and data is siloed across paper, excel sheets and phone calls. Implementing a digital system to connect their...
Take control of your business with connected datasets
Sub and self-perform contractors are turning towards digital solutions to collect and process their operations data. Growing and cross-functional teams need data-driven decisions for their time-critical activities. The challenge is how to create meaningful insights...
Daily data decisions
We use data to make better decisions every day. Let’s look at the daily commute. We know the direct path to get from point A to point B. We hop in our cars and drive the same route almost every day. In the past, we’d use the radio to get traffic reports (data) so we...