Founded in 1959, WSP is one of the world’s leading engineering professional services firms. WSP supports the Australian Department of Defence with Project Management / Contract Administration and Design services on construction projects of national significance.
WSP was engaged as Project Manager and Contract Administrator (PMCA) of the RAAF Base Curtin Redevelopment project, acting for the Department of Defence.
The RAAF Base Curtin Redevelopment project is complex, and the PMCA services required WSP to actively maintain a risk register, reconcile project financial information and report status to Defence in support of Government financial year estimates. This included complex cash flow projections and monthly reviews.
“Previously our Project Team would establish a system of spreadsheets and documents in many different formats and disparate templates. This would take weeks. It had a flow-on effect of creating a significant bottle neck of administration and uncertainty, simply to produce critical reporting information for Defence,” says Andrew Benn, WSP Technical Director.
The result was a complicated system of spreadsheets that required extra resources to manage. This slowed reporting timeframes, increased risks of potential data errors, & subsequently increased costs to the Commonwealth in most instances.
“The disparity of information and limited transparency made it difficult to interrogate the information and provide timely responses to Defence”
Mastt’s turnkey, fit-for purpose solution solved these underlying problems.
WSP was aware of Mastt through the adoption of the solution across Federal Government. The firm was looking for a simple, easy-to-use solution to reduce internal resourcing commitments, while boosting reporting services to Defence, ensuring the most timely and effective decisions could be made on this critical project.
“Rather than waste weeks of time setting up dozens of silo-ed spreadsheets for tracking and reporting on risks, contracts, finances, cash flow and status, we were able to get started with Mastt after only 45 minutes and generate reports immediately for our client,” Andrew Benn said.
With Mastt, the automated roll-up and reporting of key information in project dashboards enabled Defence to make decisions across projects that was not previously possible in spreadsheets and documents.
“With Mastt, our client can login on the public and private networks and see the status of the project anytime, reducing back and forth queries, and most importantly not having to wait until the end of the month to receive a monthly report. It’s all accessed real-time in Mastt.”
Andrew Benn, WSP Technical Director
Finally, Mastt’s ease-of-use, fast set up, training resources, and intuitive interface have proven critical in WSP’s decision to embrace the platform:
“A key factor in our decision to adopt Mastt is its user-friendliness. Not everyone is IT savvy. In data centre construction, we simply can’t afford to introduce a tool that increases the complexity of our job. It had to continue to empower us to work SMART, allowing us to consistently deliver excellence across multiple sectors and geographic regions. Using technology that enables us to do this, and to delight our customers, will always be our priority. This is definitely the case with Mastt,”
Fergus Bruce, WSP Project Manager.
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