When building templates with Visibuild, you can now indicate if a task is a Hold point or a Witness point within your checklist. These task types can be added alongside existing tasks to enhance the depth and specificity of your inspections.
Hold points are critical checkpoints in the construction process, ensuring that key requirements are met before proceeding further. By adding hold points as a distinct task type, Visibuild empowers users to enforce and track adherence to these crucial checkpoints with precision.
Witness points can be used in scenarios where a third party is required to observe that specific quality standards or criteria are being met.
How to apply it?
When creating or editing a task in the template, you can choose from 3 task type - 'No type', 'Hold point' or 'Witness point'.
When the task is collapsed, it will indicate if a 'Hold point' or a 'Witness point' has been added.
How do Hold Points work?
At strategic stages of the construction process, incorporate hold points into your inspection templates where critical checks are required and should not be skipped.
Key aspects of hold points in Visibuild:
Hold points cannot be marked as N/A
Hold and witness points can now be filtered in the Visibuild web app.
Skipped hold points will be monitored and surfaced to management for further interrogation.
Skipping Hold Points:
In cases where a user attempts to skip a hold point, Visibuild will now prompt them to provide a reason for bypassing this critical checkpoint. In the example below, I've attempted to close the last task 'Final Check' and I've been asked to provide a reason for skipping 'Floor test'.
🚨 Skipped Alert
Alerting management encourages accountability and transparency, ensuring that any deviations from the established inspection protocol are documented and justified.
Narrow down on skipped hold points across your entire project using a 'Skipped' hold points filter.
How it works on the Web App:
