Global Compact International Yearbook 2016

What Gets Measured
Can Be Controlled
and Managed
By Antoine Jurdak, Consolidated Contractors Company
Realizing the needs for sustainability efforts and plans to reduce CO 2
footprints are guiding the
construction industry toward new ways to optimize job execution, resulting in higher competitiveness.
Asset management and equipment used in the construction industry – along with
their associated running requirements, utilization, and health and fuel consumption – are major
governing factors in sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions.
CCC commitments are leading to the
development and implementation of progressive
technical skills, as projects are
being executed in a more environmentally
responsible manner. CCC embraces
this responsibility and has developed
many internal programs and processes
that go beyond what is described in this
article. Some of our achievements are
described below.
Centralization
Perhaps one of the biggest challenges for
CCC on “asset-intensive” projects is how
to effectively manage different types of
assets without creating a huge management
workload that erodes the bottom
line. So, maximizing the availability and
performance of assets is more critical to
success than ever before.
Decentralized operations contribute to
delays in collecting data and increase
errors. Automation and centralized databases
are essential for timely, big data
manipulation and applying analytics,
consequently enriching the management
by changing the paradigm from “react”
to “anticipate.”
Today, CCC fleet managers and maintenance
officers are making immediate
and strategic decisions thanks
to effective data analysis capabilities
and reporting and are able to get asset
management information into the
hands of maintenance technicians and
storeroom personnel rapidly. CCC has
advanced considerably in reinventing
the way we manage our fleet and in
providing leading solutions to converge
operational technologies and IT through
the deployment of our in-house, nearreal-time
control systems (CCC Cloud:
iFalcon) and IBM Asset Management
system (Maximo) to handle, manage,
and control timely maintenance, repairs,
job cards, spare-parts stocks, availability,
and fuel consumption during the full
lifecycle of each asset.
Equipment idling time
Excessive idling can be very expensive
and harmful in terms of emissions;
equipment running hours should be
associated with certain production,
otherwise fuel is burnt unnecessarily.
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