Radios in Construction
Builders Communications
In any construction or building site communications is key to completing projects on time. And ensuring that projects are completed on time is important for overall profitability. But along with that urgency is the need to ensure that anyone on-site is safe - sometimes sadly an overlooked aspect of the sector that can result in injury or fatality.
Can projects really be completed ahead of time?
Actually the success of any business relates to how it
performs. And the performance of a company is largely
determined by its internal communications. It's a very
different world today in building and construction with
constraints coming from all areas, legal, health and safety,
financial, missed completion dates and more. Importantly,
its critical to understand that the underlying communication
between employees is permanently tied to efficiency, thus
leading to the understanding of how to complete timely
projects without financial penalty from breach of contract.
Any building site you want to examine suffers from extremely harsh environments when it comes down to on-site technology and in particular walkie talkies or two-way radios. It's important to have those great communications between employees and other staff, but its also essential to use robust radios that can operate in such difficuly surroundings.
The choice of rental or buying equipment
You will
notice if you investigate many supply companies that they
tend to 'shout' about how their customers rent radios for
on-site use. While some builders do that of course , over
any meaningful operation time then that is great for the
rental or hire company, but less useful with ongoing rental
costs that carry no asset. Some building companies rent
because 'when the radio is demaged we don't pay to fix it'.
Unfortunately that is NEVER the case. If someone rents a
walkie talkie and they damage it in any way, they are
charged for the damage. And in the building and construction
business those costs can be high because of the operational
issues on site.
It makes more sense to buy when the
builder or construction company owns the equipment. One
reason is that equipment can be leased, whereas rental
cannot. It's possible to end up with a substantially better,
more robust, digital equipment overall far cheaper than
renting generally lower quality equipment. Renting the
same equipment would cost substantially more than any
leasing arrangement. The facts are blatantly obvious if you
check the figures yourself.
Effective communications help eficiency it's a fact!
Construction firms know the importance of communications. And to get the level of communication between on-site people can be difficult. Thankfully, the wireless radios available today solve those issues and relegate the old way of working to the past.
Health and Safety on-site
There have been some
incredibly bad accidents on building sites over the years
and it seems that no matter what, that is more of a trend
that has remained for some years. It's not all the builders
fault for sure, but any construction can be dangerous and
with many participants that makes things even more likely to
end up with problems. The good news is though, that
two way radios for on-site work have come on in leaps and
bounds in every area including for use when there are
emergencies or accidents. Handsets are waterproof, dust and
dirt proof, resilient and robust. So let's consider the sort
of radios suitable for builders and construction sites.
What equipment is available?
We have available a high
number of handsets that can help and all at low pricing
backed up with great support - far cheaper than those
ongoing rental charges. For example the
Entel DX400
Series with IP68 standard (but not lone worker) or
the
ICOM F2000 that is IP67
and includes lone worker
ability, or even the
OPUS D24 that is IP67 and lone worker ability and all of
these radios are completely satisfactory for the building
and construction sector.
Of course this is only a small selection of two-way
radios suitable for builders and engineers around any
building site, but they do give a good cross platform view
of current handsets and how they meet the specific needs on
building sites.
Benefits include:
* Waterproof
* Extremely robust
designs
* Many handsets are IP68 for
complete durability
* Digitally clear
and high volume
* Many have GPS
tracking available now
* Lone worker
emergency ability
* Long battery life
AND extra high powered battery
* Free
support for the life of the unit from us
For further
information either fill out our contact forms or call 01782
537000
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