Dieppe Barracks

Project Location:

Dieppe Barracks, Singapore

Project Type & Description:

Military Facility

Project Overview:

Constructed between 1965 and 1966 for British troops based in Singapore, Dieppe Barracks was originally part of the new but short-lived Far East Fleet Amphibious Forces Base. It is located at the northern tip of Singapore, on Sembawang Road adjacent to Khatib Camp and Sembawang Air Base.

Client:

CHL Construction Pte Ltd
Rising Star of Digital Transformation

Ms. Sheryl Chua, Contract Manager of CHL Construction Pte Ltd:

"Glodon Cubicost has helped us to improve our tender efficiency by providing precise quantity results and enables 3D cost model data exchange through a single platform from TAS to TBQ, allowing our team members to work on one same project collaboratively. This greatly improves our team productivity, with the transition from our existing manual work process being seamless."

Major Challenges:

We always facing a tight tender schedule, many rounds of changes on project drawings, also need to frequently update the costing data according to the latest market rate, all of these lead to many rounds of revision work. We found our existing manual measurement and cost planning tools were lagging behind in the industry. We realize we need to find technological advancement way to perform our job, to be more efficient and competitive. In assessing what we required and the current market solutions, we found Cubicost solution met our needs regarding ease of implementation, usability, and accuracy.

Implementation of Glodon Cubicost:

Glodon Cubicost software is user-friendly, our team can pick it up very fast and implement it straight away into our daily work processes. Our team is new to BIM solution, Glodon team has provided a tailored training program for us which lay a good foundation for our team to move forward. We started to use Glodon Cubicost solution on all types of projects immediately after the training program. It didn’t take us long to master the solution where Glodon team is being very helpful by answering our questions responsively. We really appreciate the team; they are always there to support us by providing step-by-step guides and improvement tips to make this transition journey so easy and comfortable.

Improvements:

Glodon Cubicost solution allowed our team to work to maximum efficiency and accuracy in an effortless way, this also enhance our decision-making process. With Cubicost TAS solution, we measure repeated items such as columns, doors, and windows in a much faster and more intelligent manner by simply picking labels and performing auto-identification, the quality will generate automatically in minutes. The best part is, Glodon Cubicost solution is embedded with local measurement rules to ensure the accuracy of the quantity results. With Cubicost TBQ solution, the costing library is very helpful that our team can refer to and apply previous projects’costing data easily and quickly process tender submissions to produce intelligent tender evaluation reports.