Maryland-based Davis Construction is optimising scheduling for major projects using software from Canadian firm Latium Tech.

Davis Construction has selected Job Site Resoucing (JSR), a product within the Job Site Insights family, to optimise scheduling for major projects.

With JSR, Davis can streamline and provide transparency to the booking process for the delivery and storage of materials while increasing use of project resources including elevators, loading docks, staging areas and material handling equipment such as cranes and hoists. It can also simplify the approvals of booking requests across its projects.

“Job Site Insights and its growing family of integrated applications like JSR is the leading smart construction evolution in the industry,” said Mark Bryant, Latium Tech’s CEO. “Reducing costly rework, improving build quality, and making improvements to productivity and efficiency by empowering the jobsite and subtrades through proactive scheduling, we are rewriting the history book of how construction is done today. Improving productivity and enhancing digitisation at the workface of construction is critical in today’s cost competitive construction environments.”

Ryan Adler, project superintendent at Davis Construction, added: “The best thing about Jobsite Resourcing is site control to approve or deny requests to use project resources as needed. We use it on our jobsite for 20 to 30 subs at one time. It’s a great thing to know when and who is bringing in a delivery, knowing we can override or deny a delivery, and can block out a time as needed to enable reservations to use, for example, the elevator if you’ve scheduled your own deliveries. Equally it’s convenient that reservations can be made on somebody else’s behalf.”

And Andrew Giacco, project engineer at Davis, said: “One of my favourite features is the self-service capability for subs to make their own online reservation requests.”

Founded in 2019, Latium Technologies has quickly become a go-to industrial IoT provider. Used internationally by companies such as Suncor, Enbridge, Trans Mountain Pipeline, TC Energy, Webcor Builders and PCL Construction, its software helps reduce cost, enhance logistics, bolster safety and increase visibility.

Founded in 1966, Davis Construction is one of the largest general contractors serving the mid-Atlantic region, building $1bn of construction a year, including some of the region’s most complex and notable projects, across diverse market sectors.