PlanRadar, a pioneering digital platform for documentation, communication, and reporting in construction, facility management, and real estate, has enabled GSH Projects, a specialist construction and fit-out company, to decrease its project set-up time by 80%.
Thus, streamlining processes and supporting scalable growth.
GSH Projects originally adopted PlanRadar in January 2024 to help solve persistent inefficiencies as the company expanded, and managing large-scale projects efficiently became increasingly complex.
Need for greater efficiency
They needed greater process standardization, improved compliance tracking, and reduced administrative tasks
Crucially, they needed greater process standardization, improved compliance tracking, and reduced administrative tasks.
One particular focus area was around installation ticket production, a significant challenge of managing large-scale projects, such as fire doors, where thousands of manual uploads were required.
Not only were the company’s existing methods time-consuming and predominantly offline, they also wanted a digital platform that could reduce the use of error-prone, siloed, and nebulous paper documentation, emails, and various disconnected tools.
Automating compliance processes
Particularly, it sought a holistic solution to automate compliance processes, improve project collaboration and establish a single source of truth.
It quickly discovered how PlanRadar’s ‘Connect’ tool could provide an answer to both problems, by providing GSH Projects with a ‘one-stop shop’ for project management and automating ticket creation.
This proved a real game-changer as, when a parent ticket was created, the platform would automatically generate sub-tickets and documents to provide guidance for next steps.
Benefits
This enabled the GSH Projects team to focus more on project execution and less on time-consuming administration tasks
This enabled the GSH Projects team to focus more on project execution and less on time-consuming administration tasks.
It also helped streamline other tedious, yet essential admin processes, including form generation and compliance tracking.
Darryl Wandless on PlanRadar
Darryl Wandless, Compliance Coordinator at GSH Projects, added, “Before incorporating PlanRadar, project set-up was a lengthy process, especially for those which required heavy documentation.”
”To think, it used to take one person an entire day to put together an order for around 400 fire doors; however, through implementing the platform, this process can now be done in a matter of minutes.”
“I would estimate we probably saved about 80% in actually setting up a project from the get-go compared to the last platform that we used. It’s also been transformative in administrative terms as our workload has decreased by 50%, helping improve capacity levels, so our team can squarely focus on the successful execution of projects.”
Words from PlanRadar’s UK Director
PlanRadar’s UK Director, Rob Norton, commented, “We know that construction firms can struggle with fragmented communication, heavy documentation, and, on occasion, costly reworks. PlanRadar aims to cut through that noise by streamlining workflows and enhancing efficiency for a wide variety of projects.”
“GSH Projects have really harnessed the true power of ‘Connect’ to achieve incredible operation improvements in such a short time. We hope it’s the start of a lasting partnership which will see them trial some of the other time-saving tools within the platform.”
Conclusion
The integration of PlanRadar’s platform has empowered GSH Projects, achieving significant improvements through reduced administrative overheads, increased accuracy, and minimized potential for human errors.
GSH Projects plans to continue using PlanRadar to support its ongoing operations and evolving compliance needs
