5.5
hours a week lost looking for project information
That is what construction professionals report losing every week to hunting for project data, before anything is logged, filed or answered. The assistant starts the moment a document arrives instead of when somebody finally has a spare hour.
48%
of rework in the US is caused by bad project data
Information that was inaccurate, out of reach or in the wrong format, sending crews back over work that was already done. Every action the assistant takes leaves a record you can open — what arrived, what it did, who it went to and when.
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FMI and PlanGrid, Construction Disconnected, 2018. Survey of 599 construction industry leaders, 500 of them in the United States, of whom 49 per cent worked for general contractor firms.
Hours lost. Respondents reported 5.5 hours a week looking for project data and information, inside 14.1 hours a week of non-optimal work.
Rework. In the United States, rework directly caused by inaccurate, inaccessible and incompatible project data accounted for 48 per cent of the total quantity of rework, which the report puts at more than 31.3 billion dollars a year.