BSL and M4I develop benchmarking plan

by Graham Ridout



The Movement 4 Innovation has teamed up with software house Building Software Limited (BSL) to develop a special program to benchmark organisations.

BSL director Simon Pinkney said the software house had been working with Alan Crane, the head of the movement, to develop a system that measures and monitors the key performance indicators of an organisation.

The programme can be used to record KPI's at various stages in the life of a project from design, construction, through to the post-completion phase. Pinkney said that the system, part of a suite of programmes called Contrack, will capture a firms' own KPI's and produce a graph to show where these fit against the industry averages. It can also be used to compare how different parties and professions on a project are performing relative to one another, and to measure building costs (pounds per metre squared) or variances in professional fees.

Pinkney said the software had received a lot of interest from clients.