It’s time to fix information management in construction
Regardless of asset type, there are three key challenges when managing information across construction projects: High fragmentation: Beyond the client, architect and main contractor, projects often involve hundreds of subcontractors with specialised expertise. As the scope of the project increases, coordination among parties becomes increasingly challenging,…
Case study: Re-thinking noise and nuisance complaints in local government
Background Local government, housing associations, airports, TfL, Highways England and other organisations handle large volumes of noise and nuisance complaints yearly. Councils in the UK receive 577k complaints each year. Local governments have begun looking at ways to manage the process better and engage with the…
Case study: Identifying £80m in procurement fraud using machine learning
Background A government client procuring over a hundred thousand different equipment and materials worth over £800m lacked assurance over its supply chain partners. The client had a trusted group of national and multi-national partners that it relied on to supply goods. It was impossible to…
Case study: Helping HS2 to take control of cost and productivity management
Background DMRC was asked to identify and deliver process optimisation though innovation . HS2 identified cost allocation as a key enabler to manage cost and personnel utilisation more effectively. Cost allocation was a highly manual process, affecting on-site, commercial and finance function’s ability to manage…
Case study: Innovation that transformed project and knowledge management for UK Gov
Background A government client involved in delivering and managing assets asked DMRC to support the development of an app to manage information during the handover of construction assets Projects were often disconnected due to the number of suppliers involved and the volume of information created…
Case study: Understanding semantic similarity better than ever before using Google BERT
Background For an Innovate UK backed innovation project DMRC was tasked to find an innovative way to identify similarities between text documents better. Our problem statement: “How can we identify parts of documents that are related to each other beyond looking for matching keywords?” For…
Case study: Making data accessible through efficient architectures
Background A client in the construction and asset management industry operated across a myriad of systems and applications. There was no central point for customers to view data, manage activates or raise requests. The asked DMRC for support to bring data sources together through an…
Launching Rockr – A new way to manage and assure complex projects
Today is a proud moment, as we launch Rockr in private beta. We regularly work on large and complex projects, from digital transformations to change management initiatives. We found that, despite a seemingly infinite choice in project management tools, it is still extremely difficult to…
Procurement fraud and error detection – A global £6.2tn opportunity
Procurement fraud has been a forgotten topic and many organisations have accepted the financial implications as part of their cost of doing business. However, most organisations are unaware of the scale of the problem. Estimates for the true cost of procurement fraud vary anywhere between…
Cost allocation as a catalyst for efficiency – Tracking and optimising the utilisation of plant and labour
Construction projects deal with a lot of reporting, and yet the information available provides decision-makers with very little control and limited ability to intervene quickly. One of the main problems on medium and large projects is the lag between activities on-site and the time it…