Sablono Blog

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 (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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...