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The need for the professionals and all the stakeholders in the Nigerian building and construction sectors to be aware of the issues that grapple our built environment cannot be over emphasized, it’s known as a fact that the construction industry is the largest consumer of materials and is responsible for over 40% of all carbon emissions. In fact, as a result of large waste generated from building and construction work, almost three quarters of all construction projects tend to be over budget and close to half of these spending on building and construction goes into overhead. This is why technology and digitalization seek to deliver significant solutions in a fast-paced world with multi-faceted challenges.
Before now, the Nigerian building sector has been slow in adapting to the wave of digitization that’s spreading across various fields. The workforce in our building and construction sectors is aging, and there is ongoing expansion in our cities across the country which is encouraging growth in architecture, building and construction. This means that project demand and complexity are growing, and employee productivity is falling. Even as reluctance and uncertainty plague the industry, a digital push is intensifying.
The use of technology to overcome complexity in the industry, improve professional collaboration, and use cost-effective design approaches are notable advantages. Applications of the future like Rapisurv will increasingly need to handle large amounts of complex data, predict design models, account for regenerative systems, and blend augmented reality with the physical world. Globally, innovations like Rapisurv, Building Information Modelling (BIM), computational design, robotic fabrication, building performance analysis, and artificial intelligence are dominating the industry, and more new solutions based researches are coming to explore a future where technology is inherent to the industry.
Based on this understanding, Isekit Limited, a global tech giant that specializes in providing industry software solutions for construction, heavy engineering and lots more, have introduced a cloud based solutions to the Nigerian building and construction sectors. Over the years, the Nigerian building sector has suffered many setbacks as a result of challenges like bad governmental policies, inaccurate data collection and management, low quality materials, building collapse, ineffective government agencies operations etc. that’s facing the industry. The registered tech company which operates in USA, Canada and Nigeria have designed a tech solution known as Rapisurv, to be used in process management, data collection and reporting insight in our built environment. It’s an end-to-end App solution that simplifies and streamlines construction cost and contract management.
Considering the various kind of threats facing the over N20Trillion sector from building collapse to economic crisis, lack of adequate facilities, bad infrastructure and insecurity etc. the stakeholders in the sectors can now agree that our dreamed solution Rapisurv is finally here, hence tech experts fingers lack of data analysis in most of these challenges, with Rapisurv, the future is here and our possibilities are unlimited.
In a brief chat with Journalists at the just concluded Nigeria BuildExpo, the largest gathering of stakeholders in the Nigerian building sector where the company also participated as an exhibitor to showcase its solution based technology, the Managing Director of Isetik Limited, Mr. Tosin Abioye, a tech expert who is an American-based software developer with quantity surveying background said lack of data collection and analysis at every level of building construction by both government and relevant engineers are part of the reasons buildings collapse. He said the issue of building construction is one that shouldn’t be left to rough calculation but pure empirical data collection and analysis. The tech expert said in America every step of building construction is data-enabled and monitoring is a compulsory routine just as compromise in any detail is a crime no one would like to face the consequences.
“Rapisurv an initiative of Isekit Limited, is a one-stop-shop, cloud-based, fully integrated end-to-end cost and contract administration solution for the construction industry. It makes the work of construction managers, quantity surveyors, estimators, cost engineers and contract managers on both the client and contractor’s side easier, by enabling them to be more productive without losing the industry standard method of measurement and best practices.
Mr. Tosin added that Rapisurv creates an ERP-like environment where a construction project can be handled from take-off through estimating, bidding, material requirements, contract award, issues management, variation management and valuation. Having both the consulting and contracting sides in the same system reduces tendering and bid turnaround time significantly. This solution helps through every stage of the construction contract administration and handles all processes and steps in the lifecycle of the project,”
The tech giant is offering the Nigerian building sector a rare exclusive value of time advantage, as it will cut time and efforts to create bills of quantities by 70 per cent. What used to take 10 hours to complete can now be done in just three hours or less, and most importantly the data is technologically primed that it can create opportunities to help government agencies in their regulatory functions, and the data is stored in the cloud. The software is secure, and users have two-factor authentication for extra layer of security for their accounts. Being a cloud solution, Rapisurv enables you to work from anywhere in the world. There are many other features in Rapisurv that facilitates collaboration of all project stakeholders, such as the messaging app, the minutes of meetings app, and the collaboration center where a user can invite others and give them permissions to view report, approve variations and do many more. All records are digitally kept and retrievable even years after the project is completed, you no longer need to keep files and folders in the office.
MJ | Buildace Magazine
