Construction Magazine August 2019 | Page 38

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38 but also our approvals , workflows , TQs and NCRs . We ’ re now engaging with Jacobs , a notoriously big consulting body , and I ’ m really pleased we have clients and end-users collaborating .”
Jones has operations managers , design managers , document controllers on board who are all excited about going digital . “ Rather than just having the BIM enthusiasts tell them it ’ s a great new world , it ’ s much better to have peer-to-peer communication and training ,” he adds , highlighting that the benefits of going digital with Aconex will be huge . “ Just getting drawings from our local agents , from a hundred tablets in the field , will make a massive difference to our business . We ’ ve got parts of the company , in the utilities business , where our teams might have various jobs to complete and on contract three , they find out they haven ’ t got the right bit of paper . So , they all come back to the office , for it and it costs the business a fortune - it ’ s ridiculous in a world that should be paperless . So now they ’ ve all got Aconex with job packs downloadable to their smartphones .”
Murphy Group ’ s business transformation journey has seen the company
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