Is it possible to maintain physical distancing in Construction Industry without compromising on Operational process - An insight to future of Project Execution and Management
The whole world is mess-merised by the Covid pandemic. All the businesses are aligning themselves to the new norms of working together with social distancing based on the process and type of business. How are we doing in the construction industry? Is it possible to have this issue solved for better in our industry without compromising the process and product. To find out the actual problem let's look holistically and figure out where contacts happen broadly:
For Engineers and Managers:
- Sharing of information between all stakeholders in meetings
- Planning and resource allocation discussions
- Progress review meetings and risk identifications / mitigations
- Strategic meetings regarding course corrections in Projects with all stakeholders
- Design team meetings
- Budget control meetings
- Cashflow review meetings
- On site checking of quality and safety
For Supervisors and Workforce:
- During execution of actual work.
- Tool box talks or training sessions.
Having identified the reasons, it is evident that for “Supervisors and workforce”, the problem can be partially solved by continued effort in training them on the social distancing aspect and by introduction of mechanisation solutions.
But for “Engineers and Managers” it becomes extremely difficult to mitigate the aforesaid meetings due to complexity of the process, which is primarily a “many to many conversations”. Moreover, identification of problems / risks takes more time due to complexity and enormity of projects undertaken, resulting in long meetings.
Can this be solved using technology? Yes it is possible, if we have a collaborative platform where by using technology powered by Artificial Intelligence, we can get ready information, risk registers and proactive / predictive “To do list” based on individual roles and responsibility. The above platform can actually revolutionise the way we work and will enable us to embrace a decisive and solution based working approach rather than spending midnight oils in identification of issues, where hardly any time is left for solutions and the implementation.
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