Capturing Local & Diverse Business and Workforce Participation
Developers, general contractors, and whole communities have been working hard for a long time to show how construction projects positively impact surrounding communities. After the tumult of 2020, and the effort to put it in our collective rearview, this familiar challenge will be front and center. Therefore, providing an easy, comprehensive solution to demonstrate and measure that impact is all the more critical.
Businesses, governments, and employers are developing strategies to identify new opportunities that will increase economic growth. New development construction and infrastructure projects are tools that have been leveraged in the past to jump-start local, state and federal economies. As these types of efforts move forward, it will be essential to demonstrate how each has a positive impact and successfully completes the respective project.
Client:
Gilbane ConstructionDate:
2020
SkillSmart’s InSight was procured by Gilbane Construction to support its effort to maximize utilization of local and diverse business entities and local workers on an extensive and visible project in the Midwest over the past three years.
InSight provided a single location where more than 250 prime contractors, subcontractors, and vendors could easily submit information, track critical project indicators, and report their business and workforce information monthly. This gave Gilbane access to real-time data to provide its client with specialized graphic reporting formats reflecting the specific goals identified to demonstrate how their multi-billion-dollar investment supported local workers and businesses.
Businesses, governments, and employers are developing strategies to identify new opportunities that will increase economic growth. New development construction and infrastructure projects are tools that have been leveraged in the past to jump-start local, state and federal economies. As these types of efforts move forward, it will be essential to demonstrate how each has a positive impact and successfully completes the respective project.
Solution & Result
InSight enabled the owners to articulate the goals they were seeking to achieve, share those goals with their general contractor, subcontractors and vendors, and hold all stakeholders accountable for their progress toward those goals. Further, it’s critically important for all participants to clearly understand the role they play in meeting those goals and ensuring access to a simple and effective software tool for that information to be collected in real-time.
As we move beyond 2020, all indications suggest that there will be an increase in construction activity and an increase in the oversight of the impact those projects will have on their surrounding communities. InSight is poised to provide a simple, cost-effective method to demonstrate the full effect of these projects.