How Eiffage Génie Civil boosted productivity on its large tunnel construction project
Discover how Novade helped Eiffage Génie Civil boost productivity and increase visibility on its large Galerie des Janots water tunnel project in France.
Eiffage Génie Civil successfully completed the construction of Galerie des Janots water tunnel with the Novade platform. Their goals were to facilitate online data entry for easy retrieval, streamline site operations, increase visibility and monitor progress.
Overview
- Project
- Galerie des Janots water tunnel in La Ciotat, southern France
- 2.8km tunnel with increased water conveyance to 440 litres per second
- Replace existing pipelines located in a railway tunnel
- Water access to communities east of the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis - Cassis, Roquefort-la-Bédoule, La Ciotat and Ceyreste
- Completed in 2019
- Goals
- Facilitate the process of data entry online for easy retrieval
- Streamline site operations
- Attain visibility and easily monitor project progress
- Increase on-site productivity
- Digitise site reports
- Challenges
- More than 4 teams and 30 people on site daily
- Seeking to digitise site reports with huge amount of data
- Reduce on-site redundancy
- Extensive time spent on paperwork that leads to low productivity
- Low visibility on the project’s progress
- Contractors
- Eiffage Génie Civil, civil engineering arm of Eiffage Group
- Solutions
- Novade Platform
- Outcomes
- All data are consolidated on a single integrated platform
- Seamless monitoring of production
- Project progress was updated and accessible in real-time
- Data easily captured and managed on the Novade platform
- Paperwork processes digitised
- More than 12,300 reports lodged with approximately 8,000 photos captured using mobile devices in 10 months
- Benefits
• Increased transparency across projects and captured best practices which led to efficient project turnover
• Improved productivity and quality; saved time and increased traceability
• Reports were easily generated and updated
• Reduced time spent on administrative tasks by 80%
• Saved time by taking and annotating photos within Novade forms
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A Vital Tunnel
As one of the biggest civil engineering companies in Europe with over 72,000 staff, French-based Eiffage Génie Civil has been designing and constructing ground-breaking engineering structures since 1992.
Eiffage Génie Civil were contracted to build a 2.8km tunnel to increase the water conveyance capacity to 440 litres per second in La Ciotat in the south of France. This is especially helpful for the communities east of the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolis to access the water during the summer months.
Introducing the Novade Platform
After speaking with Novade’s service consultants, Eiffage Génie Civil decided to adopt Novade’s digital construction platform to digitalise and streamline their entire site process.
Eiffage Génie Civil used the Novade construction app to fill forms such as their shift reports, excavations reports, concreting reports and other checklists.
Seamless project monitoring
Novade’s real-time capabilities and convenience quickly won over Loïc Thévenot, Underground Works Division Director, and his colleagues.
The photo function within the application enabled site engineer Thomas Delorme to simplify long reports and explanations. “After 10 months of construction, we have more than 7,000 photos in the database. The use is recurrent and almost systematic on each form,” shared Delorme.
Keeping up in real-time
With more than four teams and 30 employees working on the Galerie des Janots each day, the process of recording, collecting, and analysing site reports became a tedious process.
With Novade’s construction progress monitoring software, the teams could easily record equipment usage on site and store data on a cloud server. This reduced administrative tasks by 80%.
What they say
“Having the (digitised) information online allows us to recover and utilise data that is continuously updated. The Novade platform allows users to find information easily.”
- Marc Dhiersat, Project Director, Eiffage Génie Civil
“There has been an immediate productivity gain. We have access to the database at any time, and we have dashboards available on different projects which gives us instant updates on the progress of the site(s).”
- Loïc Thévenot, Underground Works Division Director, Eiffage Génie Civil
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