Residential and commercial general contractors boost efficiency with BuildPass

About Lorden Vella

‍Lorden Vella is a construction company founded by two directors, Hill Lorden and Garath Vella. With over 25 years combined experience in the building and construction industry in Melbourne - Australia, the two directors are passionate and enthusiastic individuals that are driven to provide their clients with the best possible outcome.They bring a wealth of experience to the business from a variety of market sectors and across a diverse range of projects. Both directors hold the experience & a proven track record in the delivery of successful projects up to $16m AUD.

The Challenge

• Managing a growing team and implementing an easy-to-use and consistent EH&S system across all projects
• Hard to track progress of each job
• Trades find existing software difficult to use
• Most software platforms are old, clunky and complicated to use
• Poor support from overseas products

‍The solution

‍BuildPass gives Garath and Hill oversight of all of their projects from a central hub, and enables them to implement a comprehensive and consistent safety system.

Centralised hub for all projects: Safety processes across all jobs are centralised into a central hub. A simple process is followed to collect JHAs, Insurances, certifications and SDS', and all documents are immediately available on any device at any time.

Daily logs: Site managers can easily add a daily log straight from their mobile phone. The weather and site attendance are automatically filled in, and images go into an image gallery for Garath and Hill to review.

Full Safety System: Coming from a commercial background, Lorden Vella have a comprehensive safety system.They've taken advantage of BuildPass' configurability to implement their existing system so that it's now fully digital and even more comprehensive.

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The results

• Happy project managers and superintendents, informed directors and efficient workers.
• Superintendents set up with minimal training
• Complex processes simplified and streamlined
• Central system of record providing smart insights
• Directors have oversight and confidence of compliance