{"id":125801,"date":"2025-01-17T07:18:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T07:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=125801"},"modified":"2025-01-17T09:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T09:39:30","slug":"golden-thread-of-information-hospital-construction-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/digital-construction\/construction-technology-news\/how-viewpoint-for-projects-preserved-golden-thread-of-information-high-profile-hospital-build\/125801\/","title":{"rendered":"The golden thread of information on a hospital construction project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s how a golden thread of information connects multiple stakeholders on a high-profile construction project for Midland Metropolitan University Hospital<\/h2>\n

Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is focused on improving lives in its community through care, teaching, education, innovation and research.<\/p>\n

At more than 7,000 employees strong, the trust is responsible for the healthcare of an estimated 530,000 people from across north-west Birmingham and numerous towns within Sandwell in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

The trust is making major investments to improve the level and quality of healthcare offered, and one of those improvements is the construction of the state-of-the-art Midland Metropolitan University Hospital. Once construction is complete, this facility will be the largest acute healthcare facility within the trust.<\/p>\n

Carillion, a well-known and highly regarded construction and project management firm, was chosen to build Midland Metropolitan University Hospital before its collapse in 2018.<\/p>\n

In the wake of Carillion\u2019s insolvency, the trust was left scrambling to find a new construction firm and keep the project moving forward as planned.<\/p>\n

In addition to the challenge of finding a new contractor to take over the project, the trust needed to preserve the existing project data information flow and maintain it moving forward with the new contractor. Carillion had relied on Viewpoint for Projects (VFP)<\/a> as the hospital construction cloud-based project management software solution.<\/p>\n

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The Viewpoint team offered to work with the trust for the successful completion of this significant project, transferring the VFP cloud data to the new contractor. As a next step, the trust chose Balfour Beatty to take over construction management of this high-profile build.<\/p>\n

VFP offers stability and efficiency for hospital construction<\/h3>\n

VFP is an award-winning, cloud-based document management solution<\/a> that enables customers to share, control and collaborate on project documents with dispersed project teams.<\/p>\n

The solution provides a single platform for all project documents, drawings, photos and file types; and workflows ensure the right information is shared by the right people at the right time.<\/p>\n

Project stakeholders see one real-time single version of the truth and can view documents regardless of the software program in which they were created. Documents are also available for offline access so users can still work when no internet connectivity exists, and VFP does not require a native app.<\/p>\n

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As they took over this massive project,<\/a> Balfour Beatty relied on VFP for:<\/p>\n