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End-to-end geotechnical field logging: office staff assign boreholes and track projects, while field crews log strata on a tablet. Borehole reports are generated automatically the moment logging is complete.
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Engineering & Construction
A desktop-and-tablet platform that takes geotechnical field logging end to end — from assigning boreholes to office staff, to logging strata on site, to auto-generated reports.
Geotechnical consultancies were logging borehole data on paper or in disconnected spreadsheets, with no shared system linking the office to the field. Project managers had no real-time visibility into how far crews had progressed on site, and coordinating job assignments, scheduling, and client updates relied on phone calls and email. Once field logs came back, turning them into a finished borehole report was a slow, manual process, and a mismatch between office and field data was common, undermining trust in the numbers reaching the client.
• Centralised client and project management for office staff, with each project tracked against its client, location, and borehole target
• Drag-and-drop crew scheduling and live availability tracking, so managers can assign the right field tech to the right job in seconds
• A tablet-optimised field logging app letting site staff record layer-by-layer soil and rock data directly at the borehole
• In-app project chat connecting office and field crews on a single thread per project, replacing scattered calls and texts
• A running log book per project capturing every borehole logged, timestamped and linked back to the field record
• Automatic borehole report generation the moment field logging is complete, pulling straight from the logged data
• Real-time visibility into field progress, with office staff able to see boreholes logged versus target (e.g. 7 of 19 boreholes logged across active projects at a glance)
• Faster report turnaround, with borehole reports generated automatically instead of compiled by hand — cutting report turnaround time by an estimated 60%
• Better crew utilisation through live availability tracking across a 4-person field team, keeping utilisation near 75% of capacity and cutting idle time between jobs
• One system replacing paper logs and disconnected spreadsheets across 4 active projects and 3 clients, giving office and field teams a single source of truth
