3 Benefits to Trimble and BuildingPoint Connected Construction Efficiencies
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Australian contractors face increasing pressure to manage projects and business operations more efficiently, productively and profitably. Considering the challenges business owners face – material logistics and availability, accounting for project-specific labor hours, new government regulations, the rising rate of cyberattacks and the construction boom expected ahead of the 2032 Olympics – it’s more important than ever to increase efficiencies and manage budgets throughout the project lifecycle.
Fortunately for contractors, Trimble offers cloud-based project management solutions and mobile applications that deliver real-time data and automated workflows, and alleviate much of the administrative and human errors that result from disjointed project workflows.
“Many legacy customers purchased Jobpac twenty years ago and aren’t aware that it’s now part of Trimble, a global technology leader,” said Andrew Tucker, product manager APAC at Trimble.
Trimble’s partnership with BuildingPoint enables us to better connect the digital and physical world for contractors
Authorised Trimble dealer BuildingPoint has long been a close partner with Trimble in Australia and New Zealand, helping contractors easily get their hands on cutting-edge technology that’s designed to streamline workflows and improve business operations. In business for more than 130 years, BuildingPoint is family to nine companies, with 15 regional offices and more than 300 employees servicing Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. Customers purchase Trimble products through BuildingPoint.
“Trimble’s partnership with BuildingPoint enables us to better connect the digital and physical world for contractors,” said Tucker. “In addition to actually selling our products to customers, the BuildingPoint family of companies helps contractors troubleshoot issues associated with their businesses and achieve connected construction .”
If you’re a contractor looking to better understand how Trimble and BuildingPoint can improve your business, below are some of the primary benefits of a connected construction environment, along with the specific solutions that can help you achieve a more robust business.
Collaboration among stakeholders
Trimble offers contractors a cloud-based document management option to share, control and collaborate on project documents with stakeholders – including documents from all stages of a project. A single platform for all project documents, with customisable workflows, ensures the right information is shared to the right people at the right time.
By centralising and digitising all processes, project stakeholders see a single real-time version of the truth and can quickly access and view documents regardless of the software programs in which they were created. Expansive communication gaps that often result from manual processes are eliminated.
Accessibility and transparency
An accurate digital audit trail will facilitate better decision-making and improve accountability across the built environment. To get to this level of project oversight and accountability, many contractors adopt cloud-based project management solutions and mobile applications that deliver real-time data and automated workflows, alleviating much of the administrative and human error that is found during traditional project workflows. Project stakeholders have real-time visibility into project status and budget, all at their fingertips.
The range of project data and documentation accessible through digital construction management solutions allow contractors to largely avoid and clarify misunderstandings with other contractors. For example, a subcontractor may confuse payment terms or amounts, but all details are stored in the cloud-based system. This means there’s a record of the original payment agreement, as well as a record of the sub receiving and signing off on those terms.
Digital audit trails are also key to complying with the Project Trust Accounting framework. Most contractors are familiar with the Project Trust Accounting framework, but they may not have had to put it into action within their own companies just yet. While the framework was originally established in 2018 as a way to strengthen the security of payments to subcontractors and suppliers, it has only been required for a small range of state government contracts – typically those above AUD $10 million.
But that’s about to change as Queensland will be applying the framework to cover all eligible private, local government, statutory authorities and government-owned contracts valued at AUD $3 million or more starting in March 2025, and those valued at AUD $1 million or more beginning in October 2025.
Protect valuable data
One reason the construction industry is a top target for ransomware attacks is because many contractors are still relying on a dangerous mix of manual processes and disconnected, on-premise hardware and software solutions to maintain business operations—making them easy targets for attackers.
Even the most technologically innovative companies can fall victim to a sophisticated cybercrime attack, which continues to proliferate in our daily lives. According to Norton data, over 75% of targeted cyberattacks start with an email. Australian tech expert David Braue also notes that by 2031, cybercrime is expected to attack a business, consumer or device every two seconds.
Moving to a cloud-based data storage system offers the following safeguards:
- Transferring data security responsibilities from a third-party IT team to a cloud vendor, enables contractors to have the latest tools in place to track and protect against cyber threats.
- Enhanced protections that include encrypted, user-level permission controls, single sign-on and multi-factor authentication.
- Secure access to data and workflows that can be accessed at any time and from anywhere thanks to the mobility offered by cloud solutions.
- Consistent data backups—ensuring that even if an attack or other business disruption occurs, business continuity is not affected.
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