{"id":47421,"date":"2018-09-24T16:20:14","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T15:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=47421"},"modified":"2018-11-15T11:03:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T11:03:37","slug":"site-diary-electronic-contemporaneous-record-capture-on-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/site-diary-electronic-contemporaneous-record-capture-on-site\/47421\/","title":{"rendered":"Site Diary \u2013 electronic contemporaneous record capture on site"},"content":{"rendered":"

COMIT discuss its implementation of\u00a0electronic contemporaneous record capture as part of its site diary solution to meet industry requirements<\/h2>\n

First COMIT provided a useful summary revealing how the Site Diary<\/strong> solution meets a core industry business problem of how to efficiently digitise site diary information in a more contemporaneous way.<\/p>\n

They also describe the development of Site Diary<\/strong>, provide a detailed explanation of the issues arising using a paper-based site journal and the nature of the solution, its usage and benefits.<\/p>\n

The problems Site Diary resolves<\/h3>\n

\"CostainCOMIT highlight the fact that an important part of a site worker, such as a site engineer, is following progress and issues on site. Traditionally this is done by keeping a paper-based daily diary. Increasingly often this has been written up in electronic form at the end of the day but relies on memory and handwritten notes made on site.* This is a time consuming and inaccurate method that is hard to integrate with other evidence such as photographs.<\/p>\n

* Most of the legal value of a site diary comes from it being a contemporaneous record, made at or near the time events happen. It\u2019s therefore critical site records are detailed, high quality and as contemporaneous as possible. This is difficult to achieve with a paper-based process.<\/p>\n

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The paperless Site Diary solution<\/h3>\n

By providing a way of recording information on site electronically and integrating this with photographic, location and weather information and other such evidence, COMIT explains that Site Diary<\/strong> web app allows progress and issues on site to be tracked and a clear diary format* achieved with a higher level of quality and detail through a predominantly, if not exclusively paperless process.<\/p>\n

*The Site Diary<\/strong> web app is occasionally used by site managers and site engineers to download data and print for use in meetings, otherwise there is no paper involved.<\/p>\n

Site Diary benefits<\/h3>\n

COMIT mention how Script&Go has \u201cimproved its functionality and made it more user-friendly<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d<\/em> to give Site Diary<\/strong> the format it has today.<\/p>\n

They outline the principal benefits that Costain, particularly its site engineers, can derive from using Site Diary<\/strong> as follows:<\/p>\n