Fibrus
Connecting a nation
Bringing broadband to 80,000 premises across Northern Ireland
Workstream is partnering with Charles Brand Ltd to deliver the ambitious telecommunications + civil engineering projects Stratum + Acorn for Fibrus.
The three-year project spans a multitude of trades, and involves over 500 operatives from 42 subcontractors + suppliers working on the £350m budget.
Fibrus aims to improve broadband connectivity by extending Next Generation Access (NGA) broadband infrastructure to almost 80,000 premises across Northern Ireland without NGA broadband access.
Thanks to Workstream, the 500+ operatives are managed cooperatively on our centralised platform. No headaches, no conflict resolution, and a successful project in the works.
Variation = risk
On any project of this scale, the likelihood of complications increases for every potential change. This includes variations of material and resource costs, timelines, trades, and much much more.
When you’re managing operatives and operations at scale, keeping on top of documents can be overwhelming. The irony is that without relevant and contemporaneous documentation, you can’t get paid on time.
86,000+ times something could go wrong
Why do things the old way?
The old methods involve contractors completing a “manual track sheet” before collating all of these for submission to the relevant internal commercial team.
To put this into perspective, that’s approximately 1,200 PDFs created + stored per month. For each perspective, that’s 2,400 events requiring interpretation (or solution).
With an expected 14,400 PDFs created per year and 43,200 PDFs across the three-year project timeline, you’re looking at over 86,400 potentially misinterpreted events. A logistical nightmare, before we consider that two people might fill out each form differently.
Thanks to our daily logging system, the project management team have full access and oversight of all staff across multiple sites. This not only allows better optimised resource planning, but also adds total control.
By setting up a list of contract rates and seeking approval, site supervisors not only have real-time feedback but can record progress + changes to all documents and to the main contract rates.
Removing the risk of unseen or unapproved changes allows the project to continue without the usual delays and conflict resolution.
Workflow changes are set in stone and kept up-to-date. Authorisation + timestamping meant records can’t be lost or interfered with. No delays, no conflict about changes, and full clarity of why.
