Case Study

Walsh Deploys Eyrus to Automatically Track Varied Construction Wage Rates

The Details

Project Type

Mixed Use

Avg Daily Headcount

100+

Project Owners

Eric Brandon

Project Manager

Jesus Montiel

Project Engineer

El Centro affordable housing building in Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood, built by Walsh Construction Co.

The Walsh team uses Eyrus BLE passive workforce time tracking on multiple projects to automatically track hours for prevailing wage reporting. On the El Centro Affordable Housing project in Columbia City Neighborhood of Seattle, they faced an additional challenge:

Level 2 of the site had its own specific wage rate different than the rest of the site
Walsh wanted to be able to track one wage rate for the whole site, and a specific wage rate for level 2.

Solution Implementation

Walsh worked with Eyrus on a solution to automatically track worker time and attendance and produce prevailing wage reports with two different wage zones.

Eyrus BLE Tracking for the Whole Site

All workers are given a Bluetooth beacon to wear on their hardhat. Eyrus BLE readers automatically log attendance and workhours when workers are on site.

Eyrus NFC and Zone Tracking for Level 2

All workers are given NFC badges and a door is set up for access to the second floor. Eyrus sets up the floor as a zone to track all hours spent in this area as a different wage.

Eyrus Registration and Reporting

All workers register with Eyrus to receive their beacon and badge. They enter info such as contact info, zip code, certifications, and more. Eyrus takes this data, combined with the automatically collected hours, to automate prevailing wage reporting.

BLE at the site entrance automates time and attendance for the whole site, and NFC controls access to level 2: photos of the BLE control box, NFC control box, L2 badge-in and L2 badge-out readers beside the building elevation

Benefits

Eyrus has been able to save the Walsh team a lot of time while improving the accuracy of time and attendance data.

Walsh saves 2 hours a week on admin

Collecting and reporting time and attendance

Reporting different wage rates based on time spent in certain areas on this project

The Walsh team on their experience with Eyrus:

“What I like most about Eyrus is the system is the ease of navigating the interface and the how quick it is to learn. It has been a great help keeping accurate information for worker attendance eliminating the issues with individuals forgetting to sign in or out each day.”
“Eyrus makes our job easier as our project set up has two different wage rate areas requiring two separate attendance records. The additional control box within the larger project area has allowed for an accurate record keeping between both areas and has increase efficiency when gathering reports at the end of each month.”
Jesus Montiel | Project Engineer

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