Sablono Blog
The central place for updates around Sablono, new ways in Construction Project Management, Building Information Modeling and Lean Construction.
Construction Planning & Scheduling Summit 2018 in Berlin
Sablono's CEO Lukas Olbrich will be speaking at this years Construction Planning & Scheduling Summit in Berlin (15-16 February 2018) on the topic of Predictable Projects - How have Post-its & Excel become the Revolution? You can meet Lukas as well as our Mario...
Why standardising processes will be the next big thing in construction
It is well known that standardising business processes leads to a number of benefits such as less coordination effort, faster troubleshooting, easier monitoring and interpretation of Key Performance Indicators, increased transparency, better communication and many...
Quality Assurance and Quality Control in construction
Quality Assurance (QA) and Quality Control (QC) sound very similar but describe two different parts of the quality management process. In construction, QA and QC are not only done by different parties but also at different times and with different goals. Still, both...
Meet Sablono at BIM World Munich 2017
After a very successful premiere last year, BIM World MUNICH, the leading event for Building Information Modeling in the German-speaking DACH region, is returning in 2017! Held on November 28th and 29th in the ICM (Internationales Congress Centrum...
Why BIM and Digital Twin Technology shouldn’t be confused
If you just read or hear their names, “Building Information Modeling (BIM)” and “Digital Twin Technology” sound very much alike. Even if you take the time to browse through Wikipedia both seem similar at first glance: Building information modeling (BIM) is a process...
Meet Sablono at Stand F27 on Digital Construction Week
We are going to participate in this year's Digital Construction Week exhibition and conference, one of the most important events for new technologies and digital tools in the UK construction industry. The event is taking place on October 18th-19th 2017 at the ExCeL,...
Sablono taking the pressure off big building projects
This brand new video shows a successfully running residential construction project in London consisting of two buildings and 464 apartments in Phase I. Project Manager Daniel Boulton, representing Mace (General contractor and Sablono customer), talks about the...
Supply Chain Management in the construction industry
Supply Chain Management (SCM) originated in armoury practices of the late 19th century, and was later used in the production methods of Henry Ford in the 1920s. It describes the management of a supply flow over multiple chains. Supplies can range from materials to...
Why transparency about construction progress ultimately helps everybody
A software solution like Sablono, which allows you to track progress of your deliverables on an unprecedented level of detail, tends to increase the transparency of your project drastically. Setting up standardized processes, which include all activities performed on...
Sablono Shortlisted for the Constellation SuperNova Award 2017
We are happy to announce that Sablono has been selected as a finalist in the category "FUTURE OF WORK PRODUCTIVITY AND COLLABORATION" for the Constellation SuperNova Award 2017. The awards recognize leaders and teams working on disruptive innovation in...
Root cause analysis in construction to deliver more projects successfully
Nowadays, issue tracking and management is a huge part of most ongoing construction projects. Site inspectors all over the world are documenting thousands of problems each day, usually comparing as-planned vs. as-built. They mark-up errors in plans, take photos and...
The different levels of detail needed in construction management
Not every partner involved in a project wants (or needs) to know about everything that is going on. Most of the time people in construction projects are interested in specific bits and pieces of information – it doesn’t matter if those are highly detailed bits like...
Improve your construction processes using comprehensive S-Curves
One of the most powerful tools of modern construction project management are S-Curves. S-Curves typically show “how many tasks are planned to be completed (yellow in the chart below)” compared to “how many tasks have actually been completed until today (blue)” for the...
Sablono’s Florian Meichsner at “Coffee Break with Game-Changers”
Coffee Break with Game Changers: Startup Focus is live now on the VoiceAmerica Network with this week’s episode The Future of Enterprise Software. Enterprise software – while well intended to streamline workflow, boost productivity and enhance operations –...
Sablono – Predictable Projects
Working in a start-up, it feels only natural and understandable when friends or potential business partners tend to ask, “what does your company do?”. Most of the times you answer those questions explaining your vision or at least parts of it. Let’s give it a try:What...