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Sanfield Building Contractors Limited
applies VHDrawings to enhance productivity
Sanfield
Building Contractors Limited(Sanfield)
a principal subsidiaries of Sun Hung Kai Properties
(SHKP), applies VHDrawings, VHSoft's drawing &
document management system to enhance productivity.
SHKP, one of the largest property
companies in Hong Kong was publicly listed in 1972, and
its group of companies possess a culture of applying
innovative technologies to improve the quality and efficiency
in property development of premium-quality residential and
commercial projects.
In the development of any construction
project there are generally hundreds, if not thousands,
of engineering drawings, covering every aspect of the construction.
These drawings are modified from time to time during the
course of the development. The modifications, regardless
of whether they are minor, or major, require a further drawing
to be created, thus adding to the already large number of
drawings.
The proper and efficient management of such drawings in
any project is absolutely vital to enable the project to
be completed efficiently and on-time. Thus proper drawing
management is an essential tool in building construction,
maintenance & fitting-out industries.
Sanfield is the main contractor of many large scale project
which include Union Square at West Kowloon Reclamation and
Ocean Shores Phase 2 development in Tseung Kwan O Area 55A.
In the past, Sanfield manages engineering drawings manually
by inputting keywords to identify a particular drawing into
a computerized database which is comparatively time-consuming
and costly.
In order to enhance the productivity, Sanfield has introduced
VHDrawings , a drawing & document management system
to automatically identify engineering drawings in digital
format. This facilitates users to immediately locate and
retrieve the engineering drawings from the database in accordance
with defined parameters such as date of creation, date of
revision, and drawing number.
VHDrawings is built as a 3-layer SOCKET server-client based
application which can be installed in LAN, extranet and
internet environment according to client's needs. Sanfield
has applied the extranet version of VHDrawings to manage
the drawing files during the whole life cycle from design,
proof, audit, approve and publish. When all the drawing
data are stored in a centralized database server, with secured
and comprehensive sharing and user management tools, different
parties of a SHKP project located in Hong Kong and Mainland,
including management and site staff, can access the database
with designated login name and password. With the built-in
traditional Chinese and simplified Chinese characters conversion
engine in VHDrawings, users can manage and search drawings
with any Chinese character sets. Inter-project communication
through various interactive collaboration tools such as
redlining markup tools can be further enhanced.
The drawing comparison and automatic version control tools
in VHDrawings helps Sanfield 's users to locate any minor
amendments on the drawings as well as to keep the historic
track record of any drawing version updates. Draft and published
drawings are now separately store, avoiding misuse and accidental
alternation by unauthorized parties. Besides, an alerting
function is equipped along with the published drawings for
notifying users the location path and issuance date of latest
drawings.
In order to achieve higher efficiency, Sanfield also standardizes
their folder structure for all projects for better drawing
management. This can be incorporated with the convenient
folder permission setting and the role of Project Administrator.
All levels of management can now be familiar with the filing
system in drawings storage at ease.
Besides, email function of the system facilitates better
communication between VHDrawings users and other parties
in sharing and making comments on construction drawings.
In addition, descriptive information of a drawing such as
photos, correspondences and documents can now be easily
located for reference and since the drawing compression
tool can reduce the original drawing file size to 1/7, the
storage space is significantly reduced and the loading time
for large size drawings is largely saved.
With the network infrastructure and professional tools provided
by VHDrawings , Sanfield users are able to handle the circulation,
approval and publish of CAD drawings at ease, greatly enhance
productivity and quality of work.
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