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,...
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...
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...
Are you ready for the infrastructure boom in 2020?
The systemised guide to optimising your teams during the skilled labour shortage and the impending infrastructure boom. The end of 2019, has seen the momentum of the infrastructure boom during the beginning of the year slow down and subcontractors have been scaling...
Construction Hackathon
Australia’s first-ever construction hackathon - Constructathon 2019 was held in Sydney across two days on the 23rd and 24th of August. Constructathon was created to cultivate innovative solutions for the construction industry using technology. Industry leaders, tech...
Harnessing social media to win more work
The Smooth Operator initiative showcases leaders in the construction industry who are changing the way they operate in innovative ways with people, processes and technology. This week’s Smooth Operator is Arron Dendle, Director of CJ’s Demolition. Arron has over 14...
2019 CICA Regional Meeting
On Friday the 5th of July 2019 the Crane Industry Council of Australia New South Wales branch (CICA NSW) hosted their annual regional meeting. This year it was hosted in Newcastle with over 70 crane business owners and management during the day. The full-day event had...