Willmott Dixon Case Study

Willmott Dixon is one of the most renowned construction and property service businesses in the United Kingdom. They are embracing innovations in their operations along with their construction projects as a part of their efficiency mission. This mission also aimed towards adopting cloud-based production management software called VisiLean during their collaborative process. It improved their access to monitoring projects, thereby moving a step forward towards speedy project completion for their clients.

• Data variability in terms of onboarding new processes across projects
• Manual workflows led to numerous human errors in the project
• A heavy need for a one-stop solution for all data requirements concerning planning, visibility of processes of design, manufacture, and more

VisiLean was deployed to transform Willmott Dixon's planning and production management:

Automated Lookaheads — Weekly, fortnightly, and monthly lookaheads could be generated with a click of a button, reflecting the true live programme status.

Integrated Logistics & Scheduling — VisiLean linked call-offs, deliveries, and production activities, with automatic rescheduling when activities were delayed.

BIM-Linked Collaborative Planning — BIM model linked to the programme enabled visual collaborative planning for clash detection of trades and monitoring of planned versus actual progress.

• Immediate constraint follow-up on individual activities with prioritised resolution support
• Centralised production monitoring with all activities visible in one place
• Automated rescheduling when activities were delayed, keeping the programme current

• One-click lookahead generation reflecting live programme status dramatically reduces planning overhead
• Linking call-offs, deliveries, and production activities with automatic rescheduling keeps plans current
• BIM-linked collaborative planning enables visual clash detection and planned vs. actual monitoring