Editor’s Note: This article is the ninth in the Construction Tech Talks series, highlighting technology trends and digital transformations from the perspective of industry leaders. Conducted by Vince Vasquez, founder and CEO at PrecisionStory, this valuable enterprise takes the form of both an audio interview with a forward-thinking, tech-savvy CEO and an accompanying article that seek to illustrate how to leverage complex technology via the exploration of successful use cases.
Gilbane Building Company prides itself on being a simultaneously safety-minded and data-driven company. So, when the coronavirus struck, Gilbane CIO Jason Pelkey and his team quickly realized they needed to leverage technology to help ensure individuals at a Gilbane jobsite kept six feet of social distance. They knew the manual alternative of having someone walk around trying to spot people working too closely together was a nonstarter, especially on larger sites. Facilitating contact tracing represented yet another challenge for Pelkey and his team. The lack of a fixed work area at a typical jobsite meant that an infected individual might come into contact with any number of people. This was an especially important problem to solve—not only to help reduce the spread of the virus, but also because, without the precise data, a case of COVID-19 infection would lead to an extended shutdown of an entire site. Looking for a solution to these complex challenges, Pelkey turned to Triax Technologies. Triax Technologies’ CEO Robert Costantini and his team also understood the new challenges facing contractors. In fact, Costantini estimates that, on average, it costs a contractor $770K per week for a single site closure due to a COVID-19 infection: expenses add up quickly with delays in schedule completion, remobilization of subcontractors and cleaning costs.
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