UK-built · CDM · CIS · MTD
Read-only screens for the office. They refresh themselves, and nobody has to log in to look.
A wallboard is a screen in the office showing live information everybody needs and nobody should have to ask for. In construction that is usually who is working where this week, and how the jobs are getting on.
The TV board is Unibuild's set of wallboards. Each one is a page of the platform drawn to be read from across a room, on any television with a browser. They refresh themselves every two minutes, they are read only, and several can be rotated as a slideshow on one screen.
Which means it is only right for the person who has it open.
Who is going where, as a month grid where each row is one Saturday to Friday week, or as a single week filling the screen with each day at full height.
Touch a day and it opens full screen: the date, how many people are on site, then a card per project listing everybody going there with their photograph.
How the jobs are getting on. The four week look ahead held against a project, drawn as a bar chart, so the room can see what is running and what is coming.
One television does not have to show one thing. Rotate the boards you care about and the screen cycles through them on its own, each one live rather than a captured image.
Bring your labour plan and we will put it on a screen.
The quickest way to judge this is to see a week of real allocations laid out the way your office would read it, rather than a description of one.Keeping it correct, awake and readable for a month without anyone touching it is the part that takes work. This is that part.
A full reload, on a cycle, so what is on the wall is never more than two minutes behind the office. The same cycle keeps the browser session alive, which is what lets the board run for weeks without anybody signing back in.
If somebody has opened a day and walked away, the refresh waits rather than closing it under them. Left open longer than three minutes it is closed anyway and the board reloads, so a screen in a corridor cannot be knocked out of service by a shoulder.
A busy Tuesday with twenty people across eight projects still has to fit one square on the grid. Each cell steps its own type down until the day's content fits. The board itself never scrolls, because nobody is there to scroll it.
A live clock fixed to UK time with the date underneath, regardless of what the screen it is running on thinks the time is. Office televisions are frequently wrong about this and nobody ever notices until it matters.
Today's cell is outlined and its date picked out, so somebody glancing across the room finds the right column without reading any of it. Company holidays stripe the whole cell and print the holiday name.
Not a screen with the edit buttons hidden. There is no edit control on the board of any kind and the page behind it exposes no way to write, so a screen on a public office wall cannot change next week's plan by accident.
There is no hardware to buy from us, no player box, no licence per screen and nothing to install. The whole thing is a browser looking at a page.
Most office and cabin televisions have one already. Where the built-in browser is poor, the usual answer is a cheap streaming stick or a small PC behind the screen, which is what most people end up doing because it makes the browser a known quantity. Either way it is ordinary hardware bought from ordinary shops, and it is yours rather than ours.
The board needs a logged-in session, because it is showing your labour plan and not a public page. In practice one person signs the television's browser in, opens the board and presses fullscreen. The two minute refresh cycle then keeps that session alive, so it is genuinely once rather than every Monday.
The labour week as a month grid for planning conversations, or a single week when the current week is what matters. The project programme where the office is running several jobs at once. Or a slideshow rotating between them, which is what most offices settle on after a fortnight.
Different screens can show different boards. A cabin on site usually wants this week and nothing else; the commercial office usually wants the month.
This matters more than the specification of the screen. The board earns its keep in the room where the question gets asked out loud: the main office, the corridor by the kettle, the cabin where the gangs collect keys. A board in the director's office is a board nobody needed.
Not an add-on and not priced per screen. Unibuild is one flat monthly fee with unlimited users and every module included, and the boards are pages of the platform like any other. Put one up in the office and one in the cabin and the invoice does not change.
The screen is the easy part. The plan behind it is the work.
A board is only worth the labour run feeding it. If the weekly plan is still a spreadsheet, that is the conversation worth having first.Same platform, same login. These are the modules that plan the work, record it, and hold the evidence it was done properly.
A board is worth exactly what the week behind it is worth. These are the things that decide that.
