The Canterbury Health Board succeeding with the Clarinspect System
Preamble
The CDHB has a big mission: “To promote, enhance and facilitate the health and wellbeing of the people of Canterbury.”
One part of this is the upkeep of all buildings that are owned by the CDHB, to keep them in line with what is required to pass the BWOF (building warrant of fitness). This involves regular checks and inspections on existing passive fire inspections. Additionally any new installations need to be checked that they are done to specification.
This is a large task, and involves large amounts of data across many different inspections.
Why Clarinspect?
CDHB needed a system that can record all this data electronically. Records of penetration sealing, Bluetooth printouts of QR labels, and reviewing the reports before release to the CDHB. On top of this, independent inspections and maintenance staff need to be able to inspect penetrations and generate reports that can be released to the CDHB.
Clarinspect has experience working with inspectors in the field of passive fire inspections and housing inspections in general. When coupled with the collaborative approach that Clarinspect takes to meeting client needs, Clarinspect was chosen as the software for these inspections.
Getting CDHB inspecting
Clarinspect are already established as the leading passive fire install logging software. This made it possible to apply their know-how to the CDHB’s situation. The Clarinspect prototyping approach was implemented. This allowed for a variety of electronic forms to be tested and reworked until the perfect one was devised.
During the prototyping approach, it was identified that discovered penetrations would need to be catalogued. This form and report format where added into the wider system. Additionally “linked spreadsheets” were created, which allows for better collation between installers.
The Outcomes
After working with Clarinspect, CDHB has a system that allows for the logging of penetrations electronically, with the addition of any photos and site plans. This allowed CDHB to meet the goal of saving paper, time, and maintaining a high level of quality with reports being published in the format that they wanted.
“Clarinspect enables the CDHB to achieve the level of consistency required in recording the passive fire programme.””
“The Clarinspect system is so easy to use. The installers record the installation on their tablets, sync it to Clarinspect where the installers QA it and approve it,. I can then get all data and reports at the click of a button - from all installers!”