BRE’s health and safety tool YellowJacket has added a lean construction tracking feature that will help contractors measure and improve productivity on site.
It will be available free to the 12,000 existing users of the software. YellowJacket’s new lean feature enables the capture of real-time data related to time spent on non-value-added activities, such as the number of people involved in a particular site process.
Data captured will be displayed in visual reports including heat maps, graphs and timelines, letting users know how projects are performing. By collecting this performance, data users can start to identify and target areas where improvements can be made.
BRE YellowJacket director Crawford Burns said: “Improving productivity and reducing costs and delivery time are key tenets of the government’s Construction 2025 strategy which sets out a plan to deliver a 33% reduction in construction project costs and a 50% reduction in overall project delivery time.
“Our aim is to help our customers who are already gathering data on health and safety to start measuring their processes in line with lean and ultimately improve productivity.
“Lean construction is about improving efficiency in the design and construction stages. In practice this means looking at processes and people and identifying and removing wasteful activities that prevent value being effectively delivered.”
