Know Thursday's crew on Monday.
Crews built from the three-week lookahead — scope, area, gate time, foreman — published to phones at 18:30 the night before. 148 heads across the portfolio at 87% mean utilization, and when Wednesday washes out the plan rebuilds at 04:41 instead of at the gate.
What it does
A dispatch line is a crew, a scope, an area, a gate time and a foreman, built against the activities in the three-week lookahead rather than against last week's sheet. Because the plan reads the same record the field reads, a crew cannot be dispatched to a pour whose hold point is still open, or to a floor the two trades ahead of them have not cleared.
Plans publish at 18:30 and land on the phone as a card: which gate, where to park, what scope, which drawings are current, who the foreman is. Re-plans push the same way and acknowledgements come back, so the superintendent knows who has seen the change before the drive in. Utilization is the number the plan is judged on — 87% mean across the portfolio — and every hour that fell outside a dispatched scope is visible by trade instead of buried in a monthly labor variance.
How it works
- 01
Read the lookahead
The week starts from the three-week lookahead and the activities the record says are genuinely ready — gates released, drawings current, predecessors closed. Crews are proposed against work that can actually be worked, not against a wish list carried over from last Monday.
- 02
Build the week by crew
Assign heads to activities by trade and area. The sheet surfaces the collisions while there is still time to move them: two crews on one floor, a foreman double-booked across jobs, a telehandler with no ticketed operator on shift.
- 03
Dispatch to the phone
Published at 18:30, the crew card reaches every phone before the drive in and works offline at the gate. Changes push as they happen, acknowledgements come back, and the plan that was actually dispatched stays on the record for the week.
Spec
- HORIZON
- 3 WK LOOKAHEAD
- DISPATCH
- 18:30 · TO PHONE · OFFLINE
- REPLAN
- < 10 MIN · SMS ACK
- UTILIZATION
- 87% MEAN · 148 HEADS
87%
Mean crew utilization