About Lorden Vella

‍Lorden Vella is a construction company founded by two directors, Hill Lorden and Garath Vella.With over 25 years combined experience in the building and construction industry in Melbourne, the two directors are passionate and enthusiastic individuals that are driven to provide their clients with the best possible outcome.They bring a wealth of experience to the business from a variety of market sectors and across a diverse range of projects. Both directors hold the experience & a proven track record in the delivery of successful projects up to $16m.

The Challenge

Managing a growing team and implementing an easy-to-use and consistent OH&S system across all projects.

Hard to track progress of each jobTracking site progress when scaling a business is difficult

Trades find existing software difficult to useMost software platforms are old, clunky and complicated to use

Poor support from overseas productsDifficult to rely on digital solutions that don’t have local support teams

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The solution

‍BuildPass gives Garath and Hill oversight of all of their projects from a central hub, and enables them to implement a comprehensive and consistent safety system.

Centralised hub for all projects: Safety processes across all jobs are centralised into a central hub.A simple process is followed to collect SWMS, Insurances, Tickets and SDS, and all documents are immediately available on any device at any time.

Site Diaries: Site managers can easily add a site diary each day from their mobile phone.The weather and site attendance are automatically filled in, and images go into an image gallery for Garath and Hill to review.The calendar view makes for easy navigation.

Full Safety System: Coming from a commercial background, Lorden Vella have a comprehensive safety system.They've taken advantage of BuildPass' configurability to implement their existing system so that it's now fully digital and even more comprehensive.

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The results

• Happy site managers, informed directors and efficient workers.
• Site managers set up with minimal training
• Complex processes simplified and streamlined
• Central system of record providing smart insights
• Directors have oversight and confidence of compliance