New Zealand construction software company Acuite has formed a partnership with Australian time lapse services leader, PhotoSentinel and promises to deliver tangible benefits to the construction industry across both sides of the Tasman.

“The practical innovation and direction being shown by both of our companies, and its integration will further enable the construction industry to digitise and make their processes more efficient,” Acuite chief executive David Speight says.

The Melbourne-based PhotoSentinel was founded in 2004 and is now a world leader in remote cameras for construction monitoring. The partnership represents a step forward for David who spent last year forging professional relationships and growing his client base.

“We are impressed with the way David and his team from Acuite have leveraged our API to produce some amazing results that we believe will really benefit the construction community,” PhotoSentinel chief executive Andrew Harrisson says.

“They have used the photo stream from our construction cameras to improve their product and deliver what their customers need.”

PhotoSentinel have worked hard to ensure its API is simple and powerful enough to produce high quality results that can benefit other members of the construction tech community.

Johnstone Construction was able to benefit off the collaboration to make their process more efficient. Johnston Construction managing director Hugh Johnstone believes that with the integration, he can increase the visibility of the company’s projects by supporting data with real-time visual progress.

“The majority of our works are remote from the client and our head office. This integration means being in touch 100% of the time, from projects as far away as those we have in Israel to throughout New Zealand,” Hugh explains.

“Our commercial team can seamlessly update programmes, justify variation and make informed instructions to contractors and clients alike without pulling the site manager off their day to day tasks.”