Boost Construction Efficiency and Quality with Jodoo’s No-Code Digital Solutions

The no-code development model perfectly aligns with engineering project management, establishing a versatile and mobile-friendly information management system tailored for construction projects. Our Company aims to reduce employee burden through digitalization, promote deep integration of industry and information, and improve work efficiency through information technology. We will comprehensively plan the company’s information development layout, strengthen information system construction, and advance the company’s information transformation process.
— The Engineering & Construction Company

The engineering and construction company, established in 1999, is a subsidiary of a Fortune Global 500 enterprise. Its construction footprint spans multiple countries, participating in landmark highway, municipal, railway, and housing construction projects across various regions, earning widespread recognition and accolades.

The Challenges

As the economy rapidly develops, the speed and scale of infrastructure construction have significantly increased. However, the management of most construction projects still lags, with extensive manual effort and time spent on organizing and calculating large volumes of basic data. This highlights the growing importance of digitalization.

Cumbersome Data Management

Construction projects involve a vast amount of fundamental data, making their organization and calculation time-consuming and labor-intensive. Traditional methods often lead to inefficiencies and delays.

Limited Adaptability of Existing Solutions

While various project scheduling and documentation software have been adopted to some extent, and integrated information management systems are in use, their widespread application in construction project management remains limited. This is primarily due to the diverse and complex nature of construction project management models, which off-the-shelf solutions often fail to adequately address.

Scarcity of Dual-Skilled Talent

There is a significant shortage of professionals who possess both construction expertise and software development skills. Software developers often lack on-site construction experience, leading to a superficial understanding of project requirements and workflows. Conversely, on-site construction managers rarely have programming knowledge. This gap makes it challenging to develop customized digital management systems that truly meet the practical needs of construction projects.

The Solution: Digitalization with Jodoo

The Company addressed these challenges by implementing a comprehensive engineering project management system built on the Jodoo platform. This system leverages Jodoo’s no-code development capabilities to create a versatile, mobile-friendly, and highly adaptable information management solution. The implementation involved six key steps:

1. Data Interconnectivity: Integrating project databases, functional modules, and display interfaces into a unified system, eliminating data silos and enabling seamless data sharing across departments.
2. Construction-Centric Design: Combining Jodoo’s robust database, high processing speed, and precision with the practical on-site management experience of implementation personnel. This ensures the system is highly aligned with actual construction needs and easily adoptable.
3. Mobile Office Capabilities: The system supports both PC and mobile devices, freeing project management from spatial and temporal constraints, allowing for anytime, anywhere project oversight.
4. Hardware Integration: Connecting on-site hardware devices to the system enhances data acquisition for construction process management, improving efficiency and reducing the workload of management personnel, especially those in safety and environmental supervision.
5. External Platform Integration: Utilizing API calls to facilitate data sharing with external platforms such as MDS, local owner management platforms, and government-mandated migrant worker wage supervision platforms. This enables a “one-platform input, multi-platform output” approach, saving redundant data entry and ensuring data consistency across systems.
6. Offline Operation: Leveraging mobile device caching allows for offline data input when network connectivity is unavailable. Data is automatically uploaded once reconnected, preventing work interruptions due to network issues.

Key Improvements with Jodoo

Jodoo’s implementation has brought about significant improvements across various aspects of the Company’s operations:

Enhanced Information Visibility and Dynamic Display

Before Jodoo: Information display methods were singular and lacked intuitiveness, making it difficult to dynamically and clearly present all project information. The sheer volume and diverse nature of construction project data, influenced by factors like weather and geological conditions, made it challenging to maintain a comprehensive and up-to-date overview.

With Jodoo: the Company unified data standards and organized project basic data into Jodoo’s database. This data, including detailed information on sub-projects, quantity lists, material specifications, hazard lists, environmental impact factors, quality inspection data, and norms, serves as the core data support. Through Jodoo’s dashboards, this information is now displayed clearly and dynamically. The data factory feature allows for simple organization and calculation of basic data, providing real-time insights into project status.

Key Improvement: The system has filled a critical gap in information display, providing a platform that dynamically updates and clearly presents all project information. This improved visibility enables better decision-making and proactive management.

Streamlined Project Progress and Quality Control

Before Jodoo: As project scales expanded, traditional offline management methods, such as phone calls and manual records, became insufficient for controlling progress and quality, especially for projects spanning tens of kilometers.

With Jodoo: The system now controls on-site conditions through construction logs filled out daily by technical supervisors, online inspection requests, and patrol records. Data aggregation and analysis functions provide real-time feedback on project progress and quality. The system verifies the compliance and logic of submitted logs, ensuring consistency with construction procedures. The operational analysis module extracts, compares, integrates, and analyzes data from construction logs, updating real-time progress on a visual sand table and calculating overall progress. This also provides dynamic information for subsequent cost calculation and quality control. The system compares actual progress with planned progress, issuing early warnings for lagging sub-projects.

For quality control, the module automatically checks for non-compliant items by matching project progress data with quality inspection data and norms. For example, it can link actual rebar spacing with quality inspection requirements to automatically determine compliance, attaching photos as evidence. The overall analysis results are used for performance evaluations of management personnel and collaborative teams.

Key Improvement: Jodoo has significantly improved the timeliness, accuracy, and economic efficiency of project progress and quality control. By establishing a robust database and linking it to daily forms, the system reduces manual data entry, enhances data accuracy, and provides convenient tools for output and progress calculation.

Optimized Project Cost Management

Before Jodoo: Managing project costs with traditional Excel spreadsheets was prone to issues like poor timeliness, low data accuracy, and time-consuming manual reprocessing, given the complex and varied nature of project lists and indicators.

With Jodoo: The system now enables digital management of project output and costs by breaking down the WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) list. It matches the quantity list with the engineering quantities in construction logs, linking material types and quantities. This generates various reports, including material surplus/shortage reports, material inventory details, and rework loss details, which can be directly used for measurement work.

Specifically, the system includes modules for the daily output value of ongoing projects, cost monitoring of collaborative teams, and management of completed but unbilled work. The daily output value module allows on-site personnel to select and fill in completed quantities for corresponding sub-projects, with the system automatically linking material models and quantities based on the list details. This data is then summarized by project to generate daily output value reports. The collaborative team cost monitoring module calculates daily income and costs for collaborative teams based on the output value report, actual labor, machinery, and material input, providing a crucial component for project settlement.

Key Improvement: The application has optimized traditional manual recording methods, making data entry more convenient and enhancing information security. It provides a comprehensive solution for monitoring collaborative team costs, which is essential given the long project timelines, numerous work areas, and diverse teams in construction projects.

Conclusion

By embracing Jodoo’s no-code development platform, the company has successfully transformed its project management capabilities. The system has proven to be a perfect fit for the complexities of construction, enabling mobile-first operations, enhancing data interconnectivity, and driving significant improvements in information visibility, progress, quality control, and cost management. This digital transformation empowers Haiwei Company to operate with greater efficiency, accuracy, and adaptability, setting a new standard for project management in the construction industry.

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