What is Construction Worksite Intelligence?

First, the primary practitioners of worksite intelligence are General Contractors.  

“Worksite intelligence” on one construction site refers to:

1. Collecting data about workers, equipment, and environment on a worksite

2. Surfacing the data in timely and useful ways: alerts, reports, and trends

3. Enabling workforce and worksite management tools and automated processes that improve security, productivity, and safety on construction sites.

"Worksite intelligence” across multiple sites in a portfolio refers to:

1. Data from multiple sites about safety, productivity, and contractor performance.

2. Reporting and trends that inform company-wide initiatives (DEI, ESG, Safety) and future performance of contractors.

Most people end up thinking that worksite intelligence must work best for large construction sites. However, worksite intelligence is simply a bunch of rather simple solutions working together, so any one solution can work for any sized site.  

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Worksite Intelligence Solutions

Generally, we think of worksite intelligence as two sets of solutions: workforce management and worksite monitoring. Any General Contractor, whether they are managing sites with 25 workers a day or 1,000 workers a day can benefit from one of these solutions:

Workforce Management Solutions

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Contractor Registration

Register all companies on site and maintain a contractor database.

• Input division, trade, and contact info

• Input contract amounts and labor rates

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Worker Registration and Onboarding

Register all workers on site and build a workforce database.

• Workers can register and onboard ahead of time or as part of on-site training

• Collect contact info

• Collect certifications  

• Watch videos and sign documents

• Complete background checks

Mass-Text Communication

Send instant text messages to all workers for site updates, safety announcements, weather events and more.

• Save groups to text often

• Text workers currently on site

• Access records of all messages sent

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Automated Time and Attendance Tracking

Collect worker time and attendance from badges, beacons, and smartphones. These solutions can work together, or on their own. Options include:

• Smartphone/App check-in and check-out

• Bluetooth (BLE) Beacon – workers wear BLE beacons that ping against readers on site.

• NFC Badge – workers tap a badge to enter the site, generally used as part of an access control solution.

• BLE/NFC combination

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Worker Zone Tracking

Bluetooth readers and/or NFC-controlled doors allow for various zones to be set up on construction sites.  

• Access control to different areas, such as electrical rooms and office trailers

• Time tracking in different areas, for productivity tracking or varying wage rates

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Worker Evacuation and Mustering

Instantly communicate the need to muster and then track workers in designated muster zones.

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Workforce Reporting

In your workforce database, you’ll have all the data collected from worker registration, zones, time tracking, etc. You can create, save, and subscribe recurring reports, here are some of the most common:  

• Timesheets  

• Headcounts, Tradecounts, Workhours  

• Certification and Training  

• Zip Code Prevailing Wage  

• Fatigue (hours worked threshold)  

• Demographics and Diversity

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Worksite Security and Monitoring Solutions

Access Control

Secure your site and specific areas with turnstiles, doors, gate arms, and staffed checkpoints.  

• NFC badges grant access to approved workers

• Set access schedules

• Record objective time spent on site and in buildings, rooms, and zones

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Handheld Scanners

Equip security, safety, and admin personnel with handheld scanners to verify credentials and track time.

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Video Surveillance and Monitoring  

Install cameras on your site perimeter, secure doors, or watching over valuable areas:

• Video surveillance with video feeds inside your worksite intelligence platform on computer or mobile

• Capture clips of key events – triggered by A.I. detection or entrance/exit of turnstiles and doors

• Afterhours monitoring with live human agents

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Water, Fire, Weather, CO2 Monitoring

Monitor your site environment for risks from water, temperature, humidity, severe weather, fire, smoke, CO2, etc. Receive alerts, communicate threats, and track resolutions.

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Worksite Alerts and Resolution Tracking

Resolve issues proactively by receiving automated alerts. From unauthorized workers, to leak detection, to suspicious activity by a camera – receive alerts and track resolutions.  

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5 Project Examples (by Number of Workers)

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Project Example 1:

About 25 workers on site each day

App-based Worker Check-in/Check-Out on Renovation in New Jersey Industrial Park

This one is anonymous, but a large GC is doing a renovation of a building in an industrial park in New Jersey. They have roughly 25 workers on site each day and needed a simple way for workers to check in and out of the site.

Worksite Intelligence Solutions Used:

• Worker Registration – each worker registers to the site on their day 1 and completes onboarding tasks. Their profile contains info like cell number, which company they work for, their trade, etc.

• App-based check in and out – each worker has the Eyrus app, which functions as a badge. They are required to tap their phone against an NFC sign when they enter and exit the site, recording a simple clock-in and clock-out timestamp.

• Workforce Reporting – the GC, and Sub-contractors, now have automated timesheets and workforce summary reporting.

• Worker Text-Messaging – Site admins and safety personnel can instantly text-message workers registered to the site with updates, safety information, reminders, etc.

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Project Example 2:

A Mixed-Use Project with Less than 50 Workers on Site

The Walsh team uses Eyrus BLE passive workforce time tracking on multiple projects to automatically track hours for prevailing wage reporting. On the El Centro Affordable Housing project in Columbia City Neighborhood of Seattle, they faced an additional challenge:

• Level 2 of the site had its own specific wage rate different than the rest of the site

• Walsh wanted to be able to track one wage rate for the whole site, and a specific wage rate for level

Worksite Intelligence Solutions Used:

• Worker Registration

• Automated Time Tracking with Bluetooth (BLE)

• Workforce Reporting

“What I like most about Eyrus is the system is the ease of navigating the interface and the how quick it is to learn. It has been a great help keeping accurate information for worker attendance eliminating the issues with individuals forgetting to sign in or out each day.”

“Eyrus makes our job easier as our project set up has two different wage rate areas requiring two separate attendance records. The additional control box within the larger project area has allowed for an accurate record keeping between both areas and has increase efficiency when gathering reports at the end of each month.”

-- Jesus Montiel | Project Engineer

Read the Walsh Case Study

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Project Example 3:

A Hotel with 100 Workers on Site

Beck was looking for a way to automatically understand who was working on their project and collect labor hours by trade/sub-contractor. They wanted a solution that didn’t add any administrative burden to their project team but would work in the background to collect data. They wanted to use workforce data for the following purposes:

• Establish an accurate “hours by trade” baseline for estimating similar future projects.

• A consolidated worker database for jobsite communications and mustering in case of an emergency on site.

• Automated project reports related to the labor on site. This included data for CCIP programs administrated by their Insurance Provider.

Worksite Intelligence Solutions Used:

• Worker Registration

• Mass Text-Messaging

• Automated Time Tracking with Bluetooth

• Evacuation and Mustering

• Workforce Reporting

“It was an immediate improvement in accuracy to know real time of those on site and hours worked. It is amazing to be able to obtain this information in half the time.”  

Jerry Salgado, Regional Safety Director  

"The tools available from Eyrus can be incorporated in your safety protocols and much more. The ability to know how many workers are on site, as well as to be able to send notifications to the entire site with a few simple clicks, is very useful. Eyrus' capability to send evacuation notifications and to conduct a headcount is exceptional.”  

Carlos Dominguez, Safety Manager

Read the Beck Case Study

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Project Example 4:

An industrial plant with 250 Workers on Site

On a remote industrial build in West Texas, ZAP Engineering and Construction employs Eyrus to keep a record of their workforce and automate time tracking.

With 250+ workers on site daily, ZAP was looking for a solution that would:

• Make registering workers easy

• Collect worker contact information and certifications

• Give security guards a way to easily take attendance

• Automate timesheets for billing

Worksite Intelligence Solutions Used:

• Worker Registration

• Automated Time Tracking with NFC

• Access Control

• Hand Scanners

• Workforce Reporting

“Compared to the process of non-automated tracking, Eyrus is much more effective with less chance of error. It is much easier for the person operating the badge gun, with less to remember, and much faster. I would have to recommend this system compared to a paper log and feel it’s a must have for a larger operation with over 100 plus personnel.

Additionally, this expeditious process gets worker through the gate much faster - which is appreciated by all personnel.”

-- Mike Toth, Safety Manager

Read the ZAP Case Study

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Project Example 5:

An Airport Terminal with 800+ Workers on Site

The teams at the Allegheny County Airport Authority and Turner Construction needed to implement a solution to efficiently move 800+ (1,100 many days) workers daily through a single entrance and exit while accurately accounting for their coming and going. They were also mandated to have security guards on site, which meant solutions like automated barriers and turnstiles would come at extraneous cost. In addition, the construction team needed to deliver several wide-reaching reports on a regular basis:  

• Fatigue Report – hours worked beyond a safety threshold.

• Productivity – Weekly headcounts, trade-counts, and workhours.

• Worker Zip Codes Report for prevailing wages.

• Automated timesheets to verify Green Points in Park Smart certification program.

Worksite Intelligence Solutions used:

• Worker Registration

• Access Control – NFC Badges

• Handheld Scanner

• Bluetooth zone tracking (BLE Beacons)

• Workforce Reporting

• Productivity

• Timesheets

• Worker Fatigue

“Eyrus helped us plan and implement a best-in-class access control and workforce management solution that met all our requirements and saved us a lot of money over the course of our project. I’m impressed with the Eyrus team’s responsiveness, and we are excitedly exploring other Eyrus solutions that will benefit our project.”

Jason Timmerman VP of Workplace Safety Allegheny County Airport Authority

“I leverage Eyrus to provide the airport construction project with security, access control, and emergency locating of people. We also use Eyrus to automate the tracking of headcounts and workhours for several reasons – prevailing wage reports, progress reports, and our Park Smart certification. What I like most is simple – Eyrus provides real time tracking and reporting of data we need and our owner needs.”  

Michael Conti, Project Safety Manager, Turner

Read the Pittsburgh Airport and Turner Case Study

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Well, thanks for reading to the end. Please reach out if you want to discuss Worksite Intelligence.

-The Eyrus Team