For developers, switching to digital review yields significant savings, both direct and indirect.
Consultancy budgets are utilised more effectively, and the risk of errors or disputes is significantly reduced.
Review is a fundamental tool for ensuring cost-effectiveness, quality and constructability in construction projects.
Unfortunately, the process is typically administratively burdensome and therefore often constrained by time pressures.
With a digital review tool, the review process is moved online and simplified, as all parties involved work together in real time on shared digital drawings and documents, which can be annotated directly within the system.
Digital review saves time – not least for the person in charge of the review, who would normally have to piece everything together, update drawings and documents, and create new versions.
Follow-up on tasks and responsibilities becomes clear to everyone, as the tool has a built-in logbook that documents all dialogues and decisions, as well as the basis on which they were made.
Follow-up is as simple as a click of the mouse.
The tool enables virtual meetings, saving travel time for everyone involved. And it opens up the possibility of more frequent, but shorter, review meetings where only the parties relevant to the situation are invited to discuss the topic under review.
This is more efficient and saves time for everyone.
Because digital review saves time, it enables the client to either make savings on consultancy fees or to reinvest those savings in a more in-depth review of the project – thereby achieving higher quality assurance for the same budget.
For example, use digital tools when a main contract needs to be reviewed externally before it goes out to tender, or near the end of construction to review the status.
Indirectly, digital inspection saves clients even more money than just through more efficient use of time.
Because the process is centralised in one place, it provides a much better overview of the entire construction project, and there is far less risk of details being overlooked or tasks falling between the cracks.
Digital review is your assurance as a client that not only is everything thoroughly reviewed, but that there is also transparency regarding what has been reviewed, why, how and with what outcome.
This means that by reviewing all project phases, you can optimise further, detect more errors before they escalate, and keep the schedule on track.
The final indirect saving for clients lies in the immense value of having a historical archive of all discussions and decisions from the start to the completion of the construction project.
The built-in log in Byggeprojekt.dk’s digital review tool can be archived online or downloaded as a review report and stored on your own server. And when it’s time for a review, or if the building is to be sold, it’s easy to go back and view the entire history.
This gives you the assurance that, should a dispute later arise regarding aspects of the project, the documentation is ready: what was known at the time, who made the decision, who was involved, and on what basis.
It could potentially save you significant sums by avoiding the need to go through gruelling negotiations or perhaps even legal proceedings to settle the matter.
