Case Study

Digital Transformation in Construction: Driving Efficiency and Sustainability at T&B Contractors

April 26, 2024
Customer

T&B Contractors

Website

www.tandbcontractors.com/

Profile

For over four decades, T&B Contractors have forged a reputation as a trusted construction partner for some of the UK’s leading public and private organisations throughout the south-east of England.

With a rich local heritage, we proudly employ 100 staff who have supported our growth and success as a leading £50m turnover SME main building contractor that undertakes construction, refurbishment and fit-out works.

Contents

Driving Digital Sign In

Background

T&B Contractors, a prominent name in the construction industry, grappled with traditional manual systems for employee sign-in and timesheet management. As environmental stewardship became a critical focus, the company was measured on its carbon footprint and needed to maintain carbon neutrality for its suppliers. Furthermore, there was a requirement to report on social value and CO2 emissions comprehensively.

Challenge

The key challenges T&B Contractors faced included:

  • Inefficient manual sign-in and timesheet systems that were not only time-consuming but also prone to errors.
  • An urgent need to implement a system capable of monitoring and reporting the carbon footprint of employees commuting to sites.
  • The necessity to collect and analyse data on the primary mode of transport and starting locations of employees to calculate rough mileage to work sites, fulfilling compliance and environmental responsibility.

Solution

The solution provided was the TAAP Visitor Book, a robust application tailored to meet the specific needs of T&B Contractors. This digital tool incorporated several critical data fields such as:

  • Mode of Transport: Options like passenger vehicle, train, bus, cycle, walk.
  • Vehicle Type: Categories included car, goods vehicle under 3.5 tons, and goods vehicle over 3.5 tons.
  • Fuel Type: Including petrol, diesel, electric.
  • Distance to Site: Replacing the need for manual mileage calculations and facilitating automatic estimations.

The system was deployed across twenty locations, ensuring widespread adoption and utility.

Impact

The implementation of TAAP® Visitor Book had several significant impacts:

  • Efficiency: Automated sign-in processes replaced manual systems, offering real-time visibility of personnel movements on and off the site.
  • Accuracy: Enhanced data collection allowed for precise monitoring of carbon emissions and helped maintain the company’s commitment to carbon neutrality.
  • Compliance: Digital acceptance of site policies ensured a verifiable compliance trail, with personal data retained for quicker subsequent visits.
  • Cost-effective: The ability to add additional fields and adapt to the company’s evolving needs without extensive redevelopment represented significant cost savings.

Conclusion

T&B Contractors successfully transitioned from manual systems to a sophisticated digital platform that not only streamlined operations but also supported their environmental and social governance goals.

TAAP Visitor Book became an integral part of their operations, demonstrating the power of digital transformation in meeting contemporary business challenges and compliance requirements.

The relationship cultivated with TAAP, characterised by consistent contact and understanding of T&B’s unique needs, was pivotal in the adoption and success of the solution.

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Why TAAP?

Why TAAP?

Why would you build applications on TAAP?

The software industry promised you could digitise all your processes, become a data first organisation, embrace AI and transform into the business of the future. But is that really the full story?

It’s an exciting vision, but here’s the reality.

Just like the nuclear industry, software promises immense power and potential, but it also has a radioactive side.

Over time, software decays. It becomes harder to manage, each year its maintenance costs spiral. All software reaches a tipping point where it must be retired or completely rebuilt.

Software maintenance is its own master, touching every part of an organisation.

All of your software must be maintained all at once, reacting to Patches, updates, compatibility issues, and new vulnerabilities. You don’t control the timeline, your software does.

It consumes every available IT resource, restricts agility, and the more you digitise the worse it gets

And the cost? Maintaining software typically costs 7 to 10 times more than the initial cost of building it.

It drains your ability to innovate, to seize opportunities, to move at the speed of business and to remain competitive.

The dream of end-to-end digital transformation begins to fade. The vision becomes a fantasy. Software, once a symbol of progress, becomes a burden. Delays mount. Backlogs grow. New ideas are sidelined. Legacy software grinds your business to a halt, undermining your most critical asset: data.

It’s a self-perpetuating cycle, a workload-creation engine, creating lag, inefficiency, and operational drag.

This isn’t the future you imagined, but it’s how the software industry has operated for the last 50 to 70 years. It’s the unspoken cost of ownership, the law of diminishing returns.

There has to be a better way!

This is where TAAP steps in.

TAAP has shifted spend from maintenance to innovation, embracing an AI-centered future of evolving knowledge engineering.

Apps written to run on TAAP are free from legacy maintenance.

They can run for 10, 15, or more years, maintenance-free!

You can digitise everything and do so free from the burden of technical debt!

TAAP technologies allow you to leverage our AI-assisted designers to scope and define the solutions you require.

TAAP simplifies and accelerates the process of turning ideas into apps.

With TAAP you can build fully functional applications in seconds, not code snippets, but enterprise-grade applications with support for role-based access controls and Single Sign On right out of the box. This means you can operate at enterprise scale giving the right people permissions to access and use the apps they require.

You can now truly become a digital-first organisation.

You can have tremendous flexibility over how you can build apps and target different types of deployments, cloud, on-premise, on-device, even fully offline.

You can develop and release an unlimited number of processes and at different release cadence.

TAAP has been engineered to allow organisations to embrace software at scale across departments, for SMEs, national and global enterprise, and in multiple languages.

Our generative technologies are deterministic, allowing you to digitise any process without compromise, built how you want, bug free, with zero maintenance, whilst providing access to your source code and IP.

Engineered for frictionless scale-out via the Microsoft commercial marketplace, customers from over 170 markets can directly start building applications on TAAP with a click of a button.

Commercialised to be inclusive for consultancies, ISVs, SIs, and product companies to benefit from this technology. Creating their own IP on TAAP, licensing and protecting their margins and value within a new and modernising software industry.

With low-cost licensing, we encourage you to digitise everything, and we don’t penalize or restrict you from wanting to digitise it all

This is a tectonic shift to the way in which software can be envisioned and leveraged for the future. We are driving the next stage of evolution for the software industry, reducing the time to value and bringing quicker results, improved quality, and lower costs

It’s almost too good to be true, but that’s our vision, allowing the world to embrace software and elevating the way technology can help humanity grow and evolve. We are changing the rules of how the software industry has operated so far.

TAAP delivers the future the software industry promised, but struggled to deliver.

TAAP can help you simplify complexity, accelerate performance, and achieve results—fast.

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