Construction Ops Trio
Three production-ready Power Apps, asset tracking, site inspection, and HSE reporting, deployed in three to four weeks. Built specifically for the field-to-office gap that costs construction firms the most time.
Why construction firms get this wrong.
Construction is one of the sectors where the gap between the field and the office is the most expensive thing in the business. The field works on its own systems (or no systems at all). The office works on Microsoft. Nothing connects. Site managers fill in paper forms that get photographed and emailed at the end of the day, or maybe at the end of the week. Asset registers live in spreadsheets that one person updates from memory. HSE reports become attachments in inboxes. The data exists; it just cannot be found, cannot be aggregated, and cannot be acted on in time. The result is double work, missed safety signals, defect close-out chasing, and management dashboards that are always two weeks behind reality.
The Microsoft platform fixes this if it is built properly. Power Apps gives you the mobile-first field experience. SharePoint or Dataverse stores the structured data. Power Automate routes the workflows. Power BI surfaces the dashboards. The infrastructure is in the licence you already pay for; what is missing is the configuration to make it work for construction operations specifically.
What the three apps cover.
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Asset Management
Plant, equipment, tools by site, status, person
Booking and return workflow
Maintenance scheduling and hire records
QR check-in / check-out, live dashboard
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Site Inspection
Configurable digital checklists
Photo capture, geo-located and timestamped
Signature capture, offline mode
Auto PDF reports filed to SharePoint
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HSE Reporting
Incident reports with severity scoring
Near-miss and RIDDOR-ready records
Defect tracking and follow-up workflow
Real-time safety dashboards
Deliverables you can hold us to.
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All three Power Apps deployed in your tenant, branded to your firm
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SharePoint and Dataverse architecture supporting the apps, designed for your structure
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Power BI dashboards: asset utilisation, inspection compliance, HSE trends, defect close-out rates
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Power Automate workflows routing notifications, approvals, and escalations
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Mobile and tablet optimisation, with offline mode for remote sites
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Configuration to your existing project structure and naming conventions
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Training session for site managers and HSE leads
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Administrator training for your IT or operations team
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Documentation, runbook, and 30-day post-go-live support
Construction, engineering, civils, utilities, and infrastructure firms with 50 to 500 staff across one or more sites. Especially valuable for firms with three or more active sites, with significant subcontractor populations, with HSE or compliance pressures (working at height, hot works, plant operation, regulated industries), or with management visibility gaps that have been raised by the executive team or by clients.
How it runs.
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Discovery
Week 1. We meet your operations director, HSE lead, and plant manager. We map your existing forms, project hierarchy, asset categories, inspection types, and incident types, and agree the customisation scope.
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Build and configure
Week 2. We configure the three apps against your data, structure, and branding. We set up the SharePoint and Dataverse foundations, wire the Power Automate workflows, and build the Power BI dashboards.
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Pilot deployment
Week 3. We deploy to one site or one project for live testing. We watch the data come in, refine the apps, and fix anything that surfaced during real use.
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Full rollout and training
Week 4. We deploy across all sites. We train the site managers, HSE leads, the plant team, and the executive who reads the dashboards, then hand over the administration.
The price band, and how it lands.
Up to 100 staff, 3 or fewer sites
£4,800
Standard branding, existing project structure
Larger or more complex
£15,000
More sites, more inspection types, integrations, regulated requirements
Related work
Often paired with this accelerator.
Common questions.
We use Procore (or Asite, Aconex, BIM360). Do you replace it?
Almost never. We integrate around it. Procore does construction-specific document and drawing control better than SharePoint for litigation-heavy work; the Power Platform work tends to live around it (HSE, internal ops, mobile site apps, finance dashboards). The exception is small firms not yet on a dedicated construction platform, where we sometimes replace lighter functionality with Power Apps.
Will the apps work on a site with no signal?
Yes. Power Apps supports offline mode for the data-capture parts of all three apps. Inspection data, photos, and incident reports queue locally and sync when the device next sees connectivity. We test offline scenarios as part of every build.
We have subcontractors who would also need access. How does that work?
We use Microsoft 365 guest access for subcontractor collaboration, with conditional access policies that limit what they can do and see. For larger subcontractor populations we build a Power Pages portal rather than giving them direct tenant access — keeping your tenant secure and giving them a clean experience. That is exactly what the Subcontractor Compliance Hub accelerator delivers.
What about CDM 2015 and RIDDOR record-keeping?
The HSE Reporting app is built with CDM 2015 record-keeping and RIDDOR-ready incident classification by default. Incident reports come out in a format compatible with both. The Microsoft Compliance Manager template for ISO 45001 is something we can also set up as part of the build.
We have used Microsoft Forms for inspections before and the data was painful. How is this different?
Microsoft Forms is fine for occasional, simple data capture. It struggles at scale — no proper data model, no relationships, limited reporting. Power Apps backed by SharePoint or Dataverse gives you a real data structure: assets relate to sites, inspections relate to projects, incidents relate to assets, and Power BI reports across all of it. The difference shows up at the dashboard, not at the form.
How quickly will we see ROI?
Most firms see the admin time saving in the first month (site managers stop typing up inspection notes in the evening). HSE incident reporting volume usually rises 40% to 80% in the first quarter because the friction is gone. Asset utilisation improvements take six to twelve months to land, because they depend on the data accumulating before patterns become actionable.