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Asphalt Operations Group
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Benchmark’s flexibility to interface with other business systems
helps Brisbane CityWorks manage projects and resources across
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Brisbane
CityWorks is one of Queensland’s largest civil construction and
maintenance organisations, and is a part of the largest local
government authority in Australia, Brisbane City Council. The
Brisbane CityWorks corporate vision is, “to be an innovative
business, dedicated to achieving growth and excellence by
providing outstanding integrated civil construction and
maintenance services to all customers”.
Therefore, it
should come as no surprise that Brisbane CityWorks Asphalt
Operations Group have implemented Benchmark Estimating
Software; this reflects their desire to be innovative,
facilitates the continued growth of the organisation, and
integrates their business systems so they efficiently and
effectively deliver to their customers.
The Asphalt
Operations Group employ around 210 people, and provide asphalt
products, asphalt and quarry materials testing, asphalt
services, and asphalt maintenance.
Optimising
resource usage and knowledge management
Benchmark’s new
‘Resource-based Export to Microsoft Project’ module, which
allows organisations to more effectively manage their jobs, has
also helped Brisbane CityWorks better manage their plant
resources across the entire council. Asphalt Operations Manager
Doug O’Brien says, “we wanted to use the new ‘Export to
Microsoft Project’ to balance our demand for shared plant
resources across council. Now that we have achieved this, we
can evaluate resource demand in the short to medium term to
optimise the utilisation of our resources.”
This ability of
Benchmark to integrate with other business systems also helps
Brisbane CityWorks share knowledge throughout the organization
to better manage and plan projects. Brisbane CityWorks are
currently implementing Microsoft Project Server and are planning
on having Benchmark integrate with this software as well.
Easy updating
of resource costs
Benchmark’s
ability to manage detailed resource costs provides unparalleled
accuracy and, as Doug points out, is very easy to do; “we
recently had an increase in wages, and it was
extremely easy to update the resource costs for labour across
all of our current estimates and field projects
from the one screen. This ensured we made the appropriate
allowances and did not blow out the budget”.
The ideal
estimating system for Public Works
Benchmark is
now the number one estimating system for the Public Works, and
Doug O’Brien believes the pressure of stringent budgets is the
main reason why Benchmark works so well for local government
authorities. Benchmark’s accuracy and transparent structure
“makes it very easy to drill down into your estimate in great
detail. This allows you to plan your costs and work tightly
with your fixed budget.”
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