Unibuild runs the whole job for mechanical, electrical and building services firms. Quoting the work, planning the labour across a dozen sites, recording the hours where they happen, controlling what gets bought, and producing the certificates that prove the work was done properly, in front of the appliance rather than three days later in an office.
Certificated work is the product. It gets produced on a pad in a van, photographed, sent by message, and typed up days later by somebody who was not there.
Recording work where the work is, and proving competence when somebody asks.
An A4 poster at the site entrance carries the project QR code. The operative scans it and the punch is recorded against the correct job.
Employed staff, agency workers and subcontract firms on one weekly grid, published to a wall board and to every operative's phone.
The record is created at the appliance. There is no paper original, so there is no transcription step and no transcription error.
The four part permit your engineers will recognise immediately as the real thing rather than a generic form with a signature box.
No purchase without an order, and no order without a named person approving it. Raised at the merchant's counter, decided in under a minute.
Every card, ticket and course your people hold, in a grid that colours itself red when something has expired.
A working Tuesday for a service engineer on a commercial contract, following the information rather than the software.
The project comes from the code, so there is no job number to remember. The server stamps the time, the phone takes a photograph, and the coordinates are recorded with it. The day line on his timesheet now exists.
The permit names the points of isolation, the points of earthing and where the danger signs went. The authorising person signs, he signs to accept, and the validity window granted is shorter than the one he asked for, which is recorded on the document.
Operating pressure, safety device operation, spillage test, flue flow, initial and final combustion analyser readings, ventilation and termination. He signs, the responsible person signs, and the numbered A4 certificate exists from that moment.
Supplier, project, value, VAT treatment and a photograph of the quote. Every member of the approval committee is pushed a notification that opens directly on the order. He is at the counter for four minutes rather than forty.
What he found, what he did about it, photographs of the condition on arrival, and the client's signature on the screen. Three months later, when responsibility for that damage is disputed, there is a dated document rather than a conversation.
Both times and both locations are on the day line. On Friday a supervisor reviews a week that is already there, already against the right jobs and already priced at each person's dated cost rate. Nobody types anything.
Unibuild records, evidences and prompts. It does not make anybody compliant, it does not check any register, and the duty stays with the duty holder.
You would test all of these in a demonstration, so here they are first.
Everything in the six cards above is in daily use in a UK building services contractor. These four are not.
Your real engineers, your real sites, your real paperwork.
Staff and training records, asset registers, clients, open jobs.
Let him try the app. His opinion decides this, not ours.
UK office, working hours, a real phone number.
Every engineer, every apprentice, every director. Same price.