Site monitoring for site managers

A site manager constantly juggles several sites, several teams and several deadlines. The job is to hold schedule, budget and build quality together, often with information that changes by the hour. Site management software is only worth having if it keeps pace with the site, not the other way round.

A site manager’s day-to-day work

A site manager’s daily tasks are very varied. Between site visits, coordinating teams, checking progress and dealing with the unexpected, they spend much of the day on the move. Yet they still need to keep a reliable record of every decision, every observation and every variance from the planned schedule or budget. If this information is not recorded immediately, it gets lost or distorted.

Going back to the office at the end of the day to re-type notes into a report, or to update an Excel schedule, is one of the pain points most often cited by construction professionals. That office time competes directly with time that could be spent anticipating tomorrow’s problems rather than documenting yesterday’s.

What a site manager needs on site

On site, a site manager needs comprehensive site monitoring software that adapts to real site conditions. The key features expected of site management software are simple to list but harder to bring together in a single tool: fast data capture on site, budget tracking that is always up to date, a task schedule the whole team can read, and automatically generated reports, with no formatting step.

Archireport was designed to meet these needs directly on site, on mobile or tablet, with instant syncing to the office.

What Archireport does for site management

For site management, Archireport provides a structured, organised framework that makes it easier to track each stage of the works, centralise information and coordinate everyone involved. On site, you add your observations by trade package and by contractor, illustrate them with photos and mark-ups on the plan, and track their status until they are resolved. The visit report is generated automatically, with the work schedule and the progress of each trade package already included.

In practice, the app lets you:

• Track actual site progress against the planned schedule, trade package by trade package.
• Generate your visit reports directly on site, with no re-typing at the office.
• Manage your budget and financial tracking: interim payment applications, quotes, invoices and variations centralised in the same project.
• Document snags and track their clearance through to handover.
• Work as a team, with instant syncing between people on site and the office.

From office to site, with no break in information

Information is available at all times, on site and in the office. For a site manager running several sites in parallel, this continuity is particularly valuable: an observation entered on site is immediately accessible from the web interface, and information updated at the office is also available on site. This syncing avoids gaps between what is happening on site and the information teams have, while making follow-up more responsive and more reliable.

Why choose Archireport

Archireport is used by thousands of construction professionals to manage and run their sites, on projects ranging from one-off renovations to major construction schemes. The app is available on iPad, iPhone, Windows, Mac and the web, with a free 30-day trial and no commitment. For a site manager who has to stay responsive on several fronts at once, it is a practical way to take back control of the time spent at the office.