IN Brief:
- Arte Construction is using Asta Vision and Asta Siteprogress for façade remediation planning.
- The system supports audit trails, baseline management, portfolio visibility, and progress reporting.
- The adoption reflects growing data and documentation pressure across building safety remediation.
Arte Construction has adopted Asta Vision and Asta Siteprogress to improve planning, reporting, and programme control across façade remediation projects.
The specialist cladding and façade remediation principal contractor works with developers on fire safety schemes, typically involving the removal and replacement of façade materials with compliant systems. Its projects commonly sit in the £1m to £10m range and require close coordination of design, procurement, access, sequencing, resident interfaces, building control, and site progress.
Asta Vision is being used to provide structured audit trails, baseline management, controlled access, and a single location for programme information from tender through delivery. Asta Siteprogress allows site teams to update progress through a mobile app, reducing manual reporting and helping planning teams keep project programmes current.
Arte’s planning team has also connected Vision data into Power BI dashboards, giving senior teams visibility over progress updates, critical path movement, Schedule Performance Index, Cost Performance Index, programme variance, and remaining work against remaining time.
Façade remediation creates a heavy documentation burden because the work is technical, commercially sensitive, and closely tied to building safety evidence. Project teams often face late design information, changing site discoveries, access restrictions, weather disruption, resident liaison, multiple blocks, and supply-chain uncertainty. Without controlled programme information, delays become harder to evidence, explain, and recover.
The record of work is now central to remediation delivery. Contractors need to capture what was found, what was removed, which systems were installed, what approvals were obtained, how decisions were made, and how the works progressed against the accepted programme. That record supports commercial management, client reporting, regulatory confidence, and future building operation.
Digital planning tools are increasingly being used to impose discipline on this environment. Spreadsheet-led reporting and informal programme circulation can become unreliable on portfolios involving multiple blocks, access arrangements, and design changes. A controlled platform creates clearer version history and reduces the risk of teams working from different assumptions.
The adoption also sits within a broader shift across façade and building safety work, where contractors are strengthening in-house technical, project control, and delivery capability. Recent moves to bring façade capability into construction groups show how the sector is responding to higher expectations around compliance, evidence, and delivery certainty.
Programme evidence is commercially important on remediation projects. Access delays, resident issues, scaffolding constraints, design clarifications, procurement movement, weather conditions, and unexpected substrate discoveries can all affect progress. If those events are not captured clearly against a baseline, disputes become more difficult to resolve and risk allocation becomes less transparent.
The Power BI integration points to a wider change in construction reporting. Clients and boards increasingly want portfolio-level visibility rather than isolated monthly updates. On remediation programmes involving several buildings or blocks, dashboards can help show where risk is accumulating, where resources need to move, and where procurement or access decisions are affecting delivery.
Software cannot remove the physical difficulty of façade remediation. Scaffolding, fire stopping, cavity barriers, tested systems, sequencing, occupied buildings, and weather exposure still define much of the work. Better programme control can reduce ambiguity, strengthen the audit trail, and preserve the link between site progress and commercial project management.
Arte’s use of Asta Vision and Siteprogress shows construction technology being applied to a high-risk building safety workload. The value lies in the operating discipline it supports: controlled programmes, consistent reporting, auditable decisions, and a clearer connection between daily site activity and project-level delivery control.
