Why Use a Biometric Electronic Performance System for Construction Productivity

Productivity in the construction industry is also influenced by many inadequacies including management practices, workforce management and technologies. In Singapore, Building and Construction Authority (BCA) is working with public and private organisations to eliminate inadequacies in the construction industry and improve worker productivity. According to BCA, project productivity at construction site is the amount of square meter of floor area completed per man-day. BCA collects productivity data of building projects from contractors and construction firms on a monthly basis. Therefore, more and more builders and contractors are now using the Electronic Productivity Submission System (EPSS) to improve project productivity through better workforce management and monitoring of manpower usage.

What is Biometric Electronic Performance System?

The cloud BAS (biometric authentication system) Electronic Productivity System can help builders and managers to manage workers’ daily work hours at the construction site. By using a BAS-EPSS solution, construction site manager can manage daily workers’ entry and exit via biometric verification system (such as iris and voice recognition, fingerprint scan and face recognition) and calculate easily on-site manpower data. With BAS-EPSS Solution, project manager is not required to manually enter manpower information into the EPSS.

Key benefits of BAS

• In the construction sector, BCA asks companies to submit labour productivity data expressed as either units of output per dollar or units of output per man-day while calculating project cost, set time & cost targets and monitor site activity. Efficient data collection on cloud BAS helps companies to measure industry-level construction productivity.
• No longer is there the need for extra staff to manually enter manpower information into the

Bca Epss. Manpower efforts are reduced in manual data recording and monitoring worker’s man hours. You can closely monitor on-site manpower with little effort.

• Biometric authentication system can easily check the identities of workers for security purposes. Biometric systems prevent unauthorized entry of workers into the construction site. This also makes it easy to search and retrieve manpower data for productivity analysis.
• Workforce productivity can be quantified. With BAS-EPSS, construction site managers can track productive hours and measure your monthly productive index against actual construction production outputs.

Construction labour productivity in Singapore has often been compared with that of advanced countries. Value added per worker remains one of the most commonly used economic indicators for international comparisons. The increase in productivity in the construction sector in Singapore is attributed to the BCA’s push for use of electronic productivity submission system. In fact, it is mandatory for builders to submit construction productivity data to BCA. The investment in better biometric electronic performance system in Singapore can save hundreds of dollars each year for construction firms. The benefits of BCA EPSS and BAS solution can enhance the buildability framework, increase project’s productivity performance and the builder can set improvement targets for future projects too.

Mr. Rawlson is presently working as a senior advisor at a leading company providing Epss and biometric authentication system. He is an experienced communications professional, management consultant and trade journalist.