Ten years,
one system.
A UK provider of temporary power, site electrics, water, welfare and hygiene to construction sites. On Unibuild since 2016, and still being extended.
Every stage of the work,
on one system.
- 01
Win it
EnquiriesEstimateTender chase - 02
Set it up
Job recordRate cardProgramme - 03
Deliver it
Labour planPermitsTimesheets - 04
Supply it
Stores and binsDeliveriesPlant - 05
Measure it
ValuationsClient signatureVariations - 06
Get paid
ApplicationsRetentionAged debt
What they use it for,
day to day.
Estimating
One shared catalogue with supplier part numbers and fit times, so any estimator can price the job, not just the one who knows it.
Measured valuations
The week's work measured in the app, priced from the job's own rates, and signed by the client on the screen before anyone leaves site.
Stores and deliveries
Picked against the real bin and the real serial number, signed on handover, and the stock moves itself when the note is confirmed.
Purchasing
Authorised by division before the spend happens, with the best available price shown next to the one the buyer chose.
Applications for payment
Assembled from work already measured and signed, with retention and the previous position calculated rather than rebuilt.
Permits and certificates
Four part safe isolation with switching schedules, chlorination certificates, water testing and emergency lighting checks.
A decade of switching
things on, one at a time.
Nothing here was delivered in one go. Each module was added when the business hit the problem it answers, which is exactly how a new deployment is built today.
Winning work
On site
Compliance
Buying and stores
Money and admin
Five things that used to
cost this business money.
Every estimator prices from their own workbook, and two of them come out a long way apart.
One catalogue, one set of fit times, and an annual uplift is a number typed into a box.
Month end rebuilt from a diary and a memory, then argued over line by line.
Measured in the week it was done, and already signed by the client when it reaches the office.
Over-claiming found by the client's surveyor, which costs more than the money.
Claimable hours capped at the estimate less what is already approved, at the point of entry.
Two sites both told they have the same tower scaffold. A job ends and the plant stays there.
Picking against live stock, and finishing jobs surfaced with their plant still on them.
Half the retention should have come back at practical completion. Nobody asked.
Retention runs as a live figure and is released through its own application, once.
Is it old software? It has been developed continuously for ten years, which is why it is deep, and it is still being extended. A new client is configured from the platform as it stands today. The business itself is not named until it gives written permission, which is set out on who runs on Unibuild.