How Many Status Emails Does Your Laboratory Answer? Real-Time Geotechnical Laboratory Status
A laboratory manager opens the inbox and sees the same question in several forms: Has this test started? When will it finish? Is the sample suitable? Have the test conditions been approved? Why is the result still outstanding? None of those questions is unreasonable. The problem is that, on many geotechnical site investigation (SI) programmes, […]
Geotechnical Laboratory Workflow: From Version Chaos to One Source of Truth
Someone on the project asks a question that should be simple: “Which test result is final?” Nobody points to one screen and answers it. Instead, someone opens SharePoint and finds `final_v3` — and `final_v3_revised`. Someone else pulls conditions from an email thread that may not match the PDF in the folder. The testing schedule lives in Excel, saved in SharePoint and edited yesterday by […]