Smartphones for Construction Time Management
khalid05, TendersInfo, Posted on ForConstructionPros.com, 05.13.2010
North Carolina-based Buckner Steel Erection, with over 30 superintendents overseeing more than 400 employees, offers steel erection services, rigging and crane rental, helping to build everything from hotels to arenas to hotels.
Buckner uses approximately 145 BlackBerry Curves with AboutTime Technologies' mobile time management application to handle all time tracking in the field, replacing a solution that was based entirely on paper timesheets -- managers and superintendents now use the BlackBerry smartphones to punch workers in and out at job sites.
Company logistics manager Mark Mehaffy says the cost of the deployment, at about $10,000 a month, is well worth it in terms of the payroll savings.
"You pay a guy for exactly what he's worth," he says. "Before, on paper, if you say you've worked 12 hours, you may have worked 12 hours or you may have worked 11 hours and 15 minutes, but we'd pay you for 12. Now he physically has to come before his supervisor and punch out."
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