64 | D&H Steel Construction � Emma Bailey Going digital a positive move The company had the opportunity to put their digital advancements to good use in the award-winning HIWA recreation centre at the University of Auckland. CONSTRUCTION Auckland’s key structural steel player, D&H Steel Construction, which started back in 1972, and has been behind many of the largest structural steel projects across Auckland, has gone through a major digitisation transformation, adding to its already strong reputation for reliability and performance. Digitisation has already yielded great results¸ general manager Richard Hine says. “We have turned certain parts of the business digital. We have live tracking on our production machines and are working on tracking our welding activity. We know how the machines are operating hourly, weekly and monthly. It has been pivotal to the efficiency of the business.” The live tracking has been reported back to staff, which has seen improvements in efficiencies. “We have had a great reaction from our staff. Now they have an understanding of what they are achieving in throughput of the machines, and this has created a natural desire to improve,” says Richard. They have also put GPS tracking on everything they own, including plant, and built their own digital NCR (non compliance report) system. “Basically, NCR means an error. All of the construction and manufacturing industry tracks its errors. We have spent a year building an in-house application and background workflow, which has allowed us to quickly track and remediate any errors that are occurring. It is a neat piece of in-house IT. “Before, we did not have good metrics on what errors were costing us. They were being recorded but had not been pulled together. With tracking, we can definitely improve quality.” Safety has also gone digital. “We have digitised our health and safety management systems. We have created a platform which integrates workflows that helped us run the administrative side of health and safety,” says Richard, It has taken two years to get the system in place. Doing this gave us another opportunity to look at how D&H does our safety, and we have been able to make some big improvements along the way. “We can now say for the past financial year we have had no LTI (lost time incidents) and that is over 400,000 man hours.” Recently, the company had the opportunity to put their digital advancements to good use in the award-winning HIWA recreation centre at the University of Auckland. “Underground, there is a full-length swimming pool, then two gymnasiums, and above that a roof-top artificial turf court, Richard says. “It really is a state-of-the-art facility.” “It was a fantastic project, and highly complex, so lots of thought went into it.” A lot of fabricated steel also went into it, with 6000 tonnes used, and 85,000 bolts. Located at the heart of the student precinct, HIWA was designed to offer students the opportunity to create lifelong social, physical, and mental wellbeing and D&H was proud to be part of this successful project. cMobile Crane Hire cHiab Transport cComplex Lift Engineering cPrecast Panel Erection cTower Crane Erection CALL US TODAY 09 296 1180 prestigecranes.co.nz LIGHTER. FASTER. BETTER. STRONGER. REIDBRACE 32MMSYSTEM Proud supplier of the ReidBrace™ System to D&H Steel Construction Ltd. LEARN MORE
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