Ditch the Paper, Get Digital! Why Allocation Sheets Need an Upgrade #construction

7 Mar 2024 · 0 min

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This YouTube video (by William Doyle MRICS) argues that the construction industry historically relied heavily on paper documentation—paper timesheets and allocation sheets—which consumed time, introduced many mistakes, and prevented timely diagnosis of on-site issues. As a result, project planning and retrospective analysis were slow (taking months) and ineffective; the segment sets up a need for digital replacements to improve planning cycles and error detection.

Historically, we've had a problem in the industry where we used a lot of paper documents, so we had paper timesheets and paper allocation sheets.
And it was taking up a lot of time. There was a lot of mistakes. And when there was something that was going on on site that needed to be improved, or you were trying to say, what's the real problem here? You couldn't get it. It would take you months to try to go back, have a look. So when it comes to the planning cycle, you couldn't have a look to see what needed to be changed.