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On October 21, Ssangyong E&C announced that it made use of a digital construction management platform at the Royal Atlantis Resort and Residences construction site, allowing workers to check the current status of construction in real-time based on the use of QR codes. This is the first case of its kind, where QR codes, which had previously been used only for materials management, are used for managing the entire construction process.

This digital construction management platform allows workers to check or the progress of each construction process by scanning QR codes on the walls of a building using a smartphone app. The app features diverse functionalities. For instance, it allows the user to post comments on tests and measurement results, upload photo records, send an alarm to the manager of the next construction process after the completion of the current one, and visualize, through diagrams and graphs, up to 100 gigabytes of cloud data.

Through partnership with Sablono, a developer of software solutions for the digital management of complex construction projects, Ssangyong E&C developed this QR code-based system because it was extremely challenging to identify and share the progress of construction at the Royal Atlantis Hotel and Residences project site, with an average of 10,000 construction workers carrying out work at some 3,300 different work areas daily.

With some 2,700 QR codes placed on the walls of work areas (e.g. hotel rooms and corridors), construction workers can now confirm the progress of the current construction process for each work area and immediately begin the next phase of construction. With this advanced technology, the company has overcome the communication limitations inherent in mega construction sites.

The Royal Atlantis Resort and Residences in Dubai features a one-of-a-kind exterior design resembling loosely stacked bricks and a whopping 109 swimming pools. This extremely challenging project involves the construction of three hotel buildings (24F, 34F and 44F, respectively) featuring 795 rooms and three residence buildings (21F, 28F and 38F, respectively) featuring 231 family units. With a project value of over KRW 1 trillion (approximately USD 859 million), this is an exceptionally large single-hotel construction project.

“Smooth continuation between the preceding and subsequent construction processes is essential in preventing project delays and ensuring safe construction,” a company official said. “We expect that our new QR code-based system will greatly reduce the time and expense entailed in identifying on-site conditions while enhancing productivity.”