Customer Stories

VIEWPOINT.com | +1 800.333.3197 © 2018 Viewpoint, Inc. All rights reserved. Viewpoint ® , Vista ™ , Spectrum ® , ProContractor ™ , Jobpac Connect ™ , Viewpoint Team ™ , Viewpoint Field View ™ , Viewpoint Field Time ™ , Viewpoint Enterprise Cloud ™ , Viewpoint Estimating ™ , Viewpoint Estimating MEP ™ , Viewpoint For Projects ™ , Viewpoint HR Management ™ , Viewpoint Field Management ™ , Viewpoint Financial Controls ™ and ViewpointOne ™ are trademarks or registered trademarks of Viewpoint, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. A B O U T V I E W P O I N T Viewpoint, a Trimble Company, is a leading global provider of integrated software solutions for the construction industry. Viewpoint software enables customers to integrate operations across the office, team and field to improve project profitability, enhance productivity, manage risk and effectively collaborate across the broad construction ecosystem. With nearly 8,000 clients, including more than 40 percent of the ENR 400, Viewpoint's innovations are transforming the construction industry by fully integrating operations across financial and HR systems, project management tools and mobile field solutions. With that information, the team could then monitor overall construction progress on an area by area, or even room by room, basis, says Pateman: "The checklists picked up the most important phases of construction and included up to 150 items, depending on complexity of each room. After managers completed weekly checks with the PDAs — there are four devices in total — we are able to produce a bar chart to visually see the progress of each individual room and of entire floors. It allowed us to identify whether there's a problem in the work process and go back and investigate why it occurred," he adds. BAM's younger managers took to the new technology straight away, and despite some teething problems, the older managers soon found the software simple to operate, says Pateman: "We tried to make progress monitoring as simple as possible, the drop-down check lists are easy to select — you simply tap the screen with a pointer — and the traffic light system of green, red or amber gives a clear visual clue as to the progress of each item." Using Field View has cut the amount of paperwork BAM needs to process on site, freeing up managers' time to focus on more project-critical jobs, says Pateman: "You simply update and clear items on the PDA, and the information is transferred to a PC when the PDA is synced with it, so there's less paperwork involved, managers don't have to spend their time inputting paper notes onto a PC database, and you have all the information in the same place instead of scattered over various documents," he says. With just eight weeks until project completion, BAM has moved on from using Field View for construction delivery monitoring to snagging operations and there are plans to expand its remit in future. "Field View is capable of far more than we used it for and we are seriously considering expanding the packages we apply it to or monitoring new activities, such as safety or other processes. In some instances, the greater efficiency enabled by Field View may mean we require less site admin staff," concludes Pateman. VIEWPOINT.com | +1 800.688.8226 Using Field View has cut the amount of paperwork BAM needs to process on site, freeing up managers' time to focus on more project- critical jobs - Richard Pateman, Construction Manager, BAM Construct

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