Unlocking Efficiency & Quality: How Digital Construction Management Transforms Solar EPC Projects
04/06/2025
In the fast-paced world of solar EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction), delivering high-quality solar plants on time and within budget requires tight control over multiple moving parts. Managing subcontractors, keeping to plan, ensuring QA/QC, and keeping project stakeholders informed are just a few of the core responsibilities.
Above Surveying’s Digital Construction Management service helps EPCs streamline these tasks by digitising traditionally manual workflows and reducing inefficiencies that slow down delivery or impact quality. Here’s how EPC teams are using our tools today to improve how they build, monitor and report.
Supporting Higher Quality Control with Less Manual Effort
Quality is a top priority on site, and EPCs are on the front lines of ensuring everything is built to spec. But traditional QA/QC processes often involve paper-based systems, siloed documentation and duplicated effort.
With Above’s SolarGain platform, many of these tasks can be digitised and streamlined. From capturing and resolving observations to tracking punch lists, EPC teams can reduce admin effort while maintaining oversight of quality across all structures. Add to that all the services carried out by Above, and you’ve got an added layer of data to back up what’s happening on site.
Enabling Accurate and Efficient Progress Monitoring
Manual progress tracking can lead to inconsistencies, missed milestones and frustrating delays. Above Surveying gives EPCs access to digital records of site progress via aerial data capture and integrated reporting in the platform, ensuring that every phase is accurately tracked and documented.
This gives project managers better visibility and enables faster, more informed decisions on site.
Building to Plan with Greater Precision Using the Digital Twin
Construction deviations are a key source of costly rework. With Above’s digital twin and live observations in SGM, EPCs can monitor construction against design in near real time, spotting deviations before they become critical.
Everything is recorded in one place, making it easier to coordinate fixes, ensure remediation steps are taken and avoid problems later in the build. Having a full visual and data-driven record also supports handover to asset owners and O&M teams, reducing future risk.
Enhancing Subcontractor Control with On-Site Digital Tools
Managing multiple subcontractors can be challenging, especially when paper-based reports and sign-offs create confusion or go missing.
By using the SGM mobile app, subcontractors can log completed works, observations and progress directly on site. This improves traceability, reduces miscommunication and creates a cleaner digital trail of who did what, when, making it easier for EPCs to keep everything on track.
Providing Better Visibility for Owners, Developers and Project Managers
Transparency is critical for developers, project managers and plant owners. Our platform delivers independent, visual reporting throughout construction, giving stakeholders access to real-time progress updates backed by data.
EPCs can share this verified insight easily, improving trust and reducing the potential for disputes, especially when projects involve multiple delivery partners or international teams.
The Future of Solar Construction is Digital
Feedback from EPCs is clear. Embracing digital tools improves how construction teams operate. With Above Surveying’s Digital Construction Management, EPCs can simplify QA/QC, improve subcontractor coordination and gain better oversight, all while delivering higher-quality plants with less friction.
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