Cast is a specialist construction consultancy providing solutions for developers, investors, policymakers and the supply chain. We are focused on delivering great homes and places whilst addressing bigger picture societal and environmental challenges.
Hi Ronnie🖐
Could you describe your company? What it does and which services offer?
Cast is a specialist construction consultancy providing solutions for developers, investors, policymakers, and the supply chain. We are focused on helping deliver great homes and places viably whilst also addressing bigger economic, societal, and environmental challenges.
Our services include MMC Policy, Commercial & Supply Chain Management, Project & Contract Administration/ Management, Technical Due Diligence and Construction & Manufacturing Integration.
Cast is proud of our early involvement with Kreo to evolve their software and look forward to our future work together.
Why have you chosen Kreo Software? What are the specific tasks that you perform within the software?
Cast have worked with Kreo to develop a bespoke solution that has been invaluable in both improving the software and our cost management process driven outputs.
As a cost consultant the time spent quantifying construction works has been reduced through various measurement tools and functions such as Auto Measure, AI Suggest, Assemblies Databases and Take-off Reports. This time reduction allows us to focus on driving value for clients.
How did you perform this work before switching to Kreo? Which difficulties you solved with Kreo?
Prior to our involvement with Kreo, our cost planning & quantification process was long and laborious. Instead of focusing time adding value for our clients, by targeting efficiencies, benchmarking, and value engineering project, more time was spent getting an initial cost to the client.
Cast then began collectively working with Kreo by guiding them through the lifecycle of costing documents from an Order of Cost Estimate to a Stage 4 Cost Plan, with a focus on different uses such as build to rent, later living and student accommodations.
Cast outlined the level of information received at each stage as well as providing examples of OCE’s and Stage 2-4 Cost Plans. Through numerous workshops and discussions Cast and Kreo weere able to identify opportunities to produce cost plans in a more time effective and accurate method, for example the implementation of efficient tools and functionality as well as the newly incorporated items and assembly features.
Cast and Kreo are working together in developing the items and assembly tools to have a data base of measurement information which will create a universal step-by-step way of producing cost plans.
These tools have and will further enable us to offer higher quality cost advise in a shorter period which enables us to deliver better outcomes for our clients.
How using Kreo Software affected your business?
Our relationship with Kreo has enabled us mutually to benefit from an exchange of ideas that allows our measurement capabilities to modernise, whilst simultaneously advising Kreo on our usability and accuracy of the software.
This has allowed our businesses to become much more productive as a result.
Would you recommend Kreo to a colleague? If yes, what reasons would you give for your recommendation?
Kreo offer a genuinely collaborative service that focuses on delivering an innovative software that will drive industry change. Their service level is high, but they are constantly looking for ways to improve.
We would recommend using Kreo for any users looking to increase business productivity.
Any additional feedback about the product?
Keep an eye on feature releases. There are some very exciting things in the pipeline.
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