Revolutionising Willmott Dixon Project Management with VisiLean

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Revolutionising Willmott Dixon Project Management with VisiLean

The construction industry is trying to shift its focus towards sustainability with advanced technology for a green future. The built environment strives to undertake activities that deliver efficiency in the projects thereby minimising environmental impact as much as possible. Embracing sustainable practices such as deploying renewable energy, using eco-friendly materials, etc., can lead to a reduction of up to 50% in carbon emissions compared to traditional construction methods.

Brief on Willmott Dixon-

Willmott Dixon is one of the most renowned construction and property services businesses in the United Kingdom. They are embracing innovations in their operations along with their construction projects as a part of their efficiency mission. This mission also aimed towards adopting cloud-based production management software called VisiLean during their collaborative process. It improved their access to monitoring projects thereby moving a step forward towards speedy project completion for their clients.

To give their mission speed, Willmott Dixon introduced Collida as their extra hand which was duly backed by qualitative construction. Their prime game changers were –

BRE Showhome is to be built through off-site manufacturing based on the principles of Passivhaus for minimising the building footprint at large.
BRE Showhome followed a panelised approach to ensure consistency in the project.

Indeed, this project was about to dig up a unique set of challenges but would also present a new set of opportunities.

What Challenges did they face for their project?

The team of Collida had to face a lot of hardships in terms of working on-site. The primary reasons behind this can be listed down below-

Data variability in terms of onboarding new processes
Manual workflows led to numerous human errors in the project
A heavy need for a one-stop for all their data requirements concerning planning, visibility of processes of the design, manufacture, and more
Requirement for capturing real-time updates
A single place for tracking and managing the constraints
A collaborative digital platform for all their partners
A free space to note down all the repeatable sections of work

How did VisiLean make a difference to the Willmott Dixon Project?

VisiLean helped Willmott Dixon to streamline their project delivery. For this, the support team of VisiLean was always in touch with the site team for a smooth transition to a digital platform. Once when the project workflow was in place, it was a process of learning for their team to use the tool efficiently. No sooner were they adept with the tool than they could successfully track all their construction activities for its successful implementation. The BIM model structured their data in a visual format for future planning, detecting the trades, and monitoring the present plan and its progress so far.

Beneficial Outcomes of Introducing VisiLean to Willmott Dixon

Before VisiLean, digital tools like PowerPoint, Excel, etc. were heavily used by Willmott Dixon for their project management. However, not only was it time-consuming, but it also lacked tracking the data with transparency in a collaborative environment. These pain points were immediately addressed by VisiLean wherein generous data inputs about manufacturing, procurement, and production of individual activities were duly accommodated over a single timeline. This was followed by consolidating the entire information to a specific location for the team to overview and save over 2 hours every week in terms of planning.

In this dire hour, Willmott Dixon took the wise decision of educating their supply chain partners about the user-friendly VisiLean software with our proactive team. With thorough training, the team could easily deploy customised weekly, fortnightly, or even monthly lookaheads with a click of a button. Simultaneously, it would be reflected in the ‘live’ programme and benefit the entire team equally.

This drastic change helped the Willmott Dixon team to-

Address their material issues
Link the plant call-offs
Track the deliverables
Follow up on constraints to individual activities and send immediate help on priority
Monitor the production activities in one place

Moreover, all activities were coupled with a history for their team to capture numerous lessons for retrospection and undertaking the learnings.

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Does your construction project encounter communication difficulties? When there is a lag in productivity, it certainly hampers your overall project performance. But at VisiLean, we’ll help you streamline your construction projects through our single integrated platform. Don’t forget to schedule a free call with us to know our features better! We’d also love to hear about your experience of using VisiLean so far below.

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Don’t miss out on the opportunity to discover the power of VisiLean! Book your demo today and take the first step towards a more efficient and collaborative construction project management experience.

Howard G.

September 24, 2021.

Review Excellent - as well as the product, the customer support has been fantastic. ☺Ease of use, potential for it to be a single source of data, phone app. ☹Like to be able to scroll left to right between weeks in scheduler view and the location stays in the same place. Would like to be able to scroll 1 week at a time in phase view. Constraints to be tracked, and identify by associated trade. Unable to "commit" a task for the next week.

monish g.

July 24, 2021.

Visilean Review Good ☺Visilean is a very good software for collaborative efforts with a dedicated team working on a tight schedule ☹Offline facility not available. It should be incorporated.

Deron M.

July 22, 2021.

Visilean is the future of construction... ☺Real time updates of the project - Ease of giving updates strait from job site. Mobility of apps and Great customer support and system on-boarding. ☹I don't really have much negative to say, every time we come up with something to improve the system it doesn't talk long and its part of a system update. They are working every day to improve the system.

Aastha B.

July 8, 2021.

Why should you go with the software Software has a lot of significance in improving a projects performance. My overall experience was really great and the team is really supportive. ☺BIMLean Integration works out easy with the software. It supports LPS of Lean Process. Model and Schedule can directly be imported and linked in the software itself. 4D simulation can be viewed in the software with a proper colour wheel assigned to it defining the work status. Work commitment, collaborative planning, communication and workflow are improved using the software, which helps improve project performance. Different projects constraints such as: space planning, resource planning, equipment positioning, etc. are easily identified. Software summaries the project status with PPC tracking of WWP, reason of variance mapping, constraint summary and generates progress reports with all documents submitted per activity (RFI, Quality Report, Site Photograph, etc.) in one place. It compares the planned v/s actual work at site with visual view addition. It is a handy software and is easy to use with easily accessible data. Software also has a mobile version, helping the data to be tracked from anywhere possible. ☹Overall the software is really great but some points from a designer's perspective could be added into the same.

Bhaumik P.

The Future of Built Environment Good ☺3D BIM, 4D Simulation, Value Engineering, Waste Reduction ☹Everything is okay in the cloud and app system. But what if the project is in a remote location. Network Connectivity for real-time updates is an issue. They should build an offline version of the app.

Agastya M.

July 7, 2021.

A game changer for real estate projects The experience with VisiLean has been very satisfactory ☺We have been more inclined towards using the mobile app. Using the mobile app is very much convenient on an every day basis. Most importantly the Quality Approval workflow is very seamless. We can convey our work completion by clicking just one button on the mobile app and the Sr. Engineers get notified about the same. When it comes to the Software, it is cloud based and this helps us to access the Software as well. It is just like accessing facebook; you go to the VisiLean website, provide your credentials and boom; you have all your projects with you. The Gantt view in the Software helps us to create our schedules and also import our schedules created on Microsoft excels. ☹Not much cons that our company can think of, but yes; on some instances, when we work in basements where the network connectivity is an issue; it is not possible to provide the updates from mobile app. We have conveyed this to their support team (which is very friendly btw) and they have already committed to deliver it soon.

Keith O.

July 6, 2021.

Graham Construction Very good as I said. It will need to be in bedded more into peoples working habits. ☺Keeps a track of important contractual issues ☹Needs more time to bed into peoples working live's

Josh B.

Great Planning tool ☺The mobile app made it easy to see my tasks only. ☹The web version was a little confusing and hard to navigate for first time users.

Daniel F.

July 2, 2021.

Visilean review - Best custom service i have ever experienced. - Visilean wants feedback and really listen to it. I am very convinced that Visilean wants to be developed and contiune to improve, and they show it. Ideas and user friendly tips i give in feedback often is implemented in the near future. ☺- Live update on phones. - Low time spent on documenting activities that goes according to planned. - That you make each subcontractor "more" responsible when they need to accept each activities 6-8 weeks before start by making it "ready". ☹- No view to gives you the full overview of the long term plan. (like 12 months ahead). - Todays use of colors. Ready state is good for the planner only, but during planning meeting with all contractors, look