DFS Group builds duty-free stores on Aconex
DFS Group designed and constructed major retail stores – an extensive wine, spirits and tobacco outlet at Singapore’s Changi Airport, a large T Galleria on George Street in Sydney’s heritage neighborhood, and a galleria of more than 300,000 square feet in Macau’s entertainment resort, City of Dreams. Each project had its own challenges – extensive structural modifications at Changi Airport, the world’s fifth busiest hub; strict compliance with regulations protecting historical areas in Sydney; and a Macau building size nearly twice that of a typical “big-box store.”
“We can share, update, track, and search all documents and communications in real time.”
Business challenges
- Minimizing disruption of passenger traffic, baggage-handling or other live airport operations
- Strict compliance with protective regulations and multiple levels of public scrutiny
- Store size and project complexity
- Requirement to standardize data and processes across projects to ensure collaboration between design and construction teams
Results
- Aconex collaboration platform as a project “hub” which connects teams across many different organizations
- Workflow management for design reviews, RFIs, changes and variations, and other core processes
- Batch transmission of documents and version control
- Audit trail to resolve conflicts and satisfy public reporting obligations
- Real-time visibility and control of project information and processes
- Improved efficiency and reduced risk
- Identification of delays and bottlenecks to keep projects on schedule and on budget
- Fast ramp to full productivity for project teams due to the platform’s intuitive ease of use
Published:October 30, 2018