What are the challenges of dematerialization in the construction industry?

As a professional in the building and civil engineering sector, you have to create, manage and archive a huge number of documents on a daily basis. This requires time, space and optimal organization. To simplify your activity, why not turn to dematerialization and manage digital documents more easily and quickly? Save time, boost productivity, save money: find out more about the challenges of dematerialization in the construction industry.

What is document dematerialization?

The dematerialization of documents - or digitization - consists of replacing paper documents with digital versionswhich are easier to store and file. All types of documents can be dematerialized from quotations and invoices to plans, pay slips and administrative documents.

Dematerialization and electronic document management (EDM) represent a major a major challenge for companiesparticularly in the construction industry. And with good reason: they have to deal with a considerable number of documents. And paper-based management can lead to a number of difficulties, such as :

  • the loss of time in searching for documents;
  • of data security risks such as theft or loss;
  • a lack of speed in the transmission, follow-up or validation of documents;
  • of problems of access to documents and communication between different sites and stakeholders;
  • of confidentiality issues ;
  • a loss of traceability ;
  • from costs for printing and storing documents.

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What are the advantages of dematerialization in the construction industry?

The challenges of dematerialization are paramount in the construction industry. A large number of documents need to be transmitted both within the company and to external parties such as architects, project managers, project owners and subcontractors.

Good electronic document management offers many advantages in day-to-day operations.

Time-saving

One of the main benefits of document dematerialization in the construction industry is time and flexibility, necessary in an industry that's constantly on the move.

Your documents are stored and centralized in a single, secure space which encourages collaborative work between all parties involved. You can access all the documents you need easily, without wasting time searching for them. You can modify them and and transmit them with easewithout fear of documents getting lost.

This also makes administrative tasks easier, from managing quotations and invoices to reminders procedures and electronic document signing.

Financial gain

Dematerialization allows you to save space and, above all, money. Paper formats require organization and storage space. With dematerialization, no more shelves full of filing cabinets. All your digitized documents are simply stored on a web or mobile application.

Dematerialization reduces all the costs associated with the production but also, and above all, to their storage. There's no longer any need for entire filing cabinets dedicated to different documents. You have them all at your fingertips, directly on a computer screen, tablet or smartphone, correctly classified.

Productivity gains

Dematerialization therefore offers greater flexibility and, as a result, increases the productivity of all your employees. Fewer time-consuming tasks such as filing, sorting, tracking and distribution mean more time for high value-added tasks.

More generally, everyone has access to schedules and a a quick overview of different activities. In just a few clicks, it's easy to see who's doing what, for whom, when and where. You can organize your sites and interventions more quickly and, once again, boost your productivity.