Construction Industry Spotlight | Microsoft Power Platform
Connecting your sites, your paperwork, and your people
What is Microsoft Power Platform?
Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Dataverse, Copilot and SharePoint – the tools behind Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft 365. Across the construction industry, Microsoft Power Platform is being used to modernise operations with live dashboards, mobile site apps, automated workflows, and intelligent document management, delivering greater visibility, compliance, and control.
Solutions for the Construction Industry
Document Management with SharePoint
Eliminate the challenge of locating the latest document version across email chains and shared drives. SharePoint provides a centralised, secure repository for project drawings, RAMS, contracts, certificates, and other key documentation. With version control, approval workflows, and role-based permissions, teams can ensure the right people have access to the right information at the right time, while maintaining a clear audit trail and a single source of truth for every project.
Frontline Worker Digitisation
Replace paper-based site diaries, permits-to-work, and inspection forms with intuitive mobile applications. Site teams can complete forms, capture photos, and report issues directly from a phone or tablet, even when working offline in remote locations. Information is automatically synced back to central systems, improving data accuracy, reducing administration, and providing real-time visibility of site activity.
Centralised Project Data with Dataverse
Move beyond disconnected spreadsheets and siloed systems by using Microsoft Dataverse as a central data platform for construction operations. Store and manage project information, site records, assets, subcontractors, inspections, and compliance data in a single, secure source of truth. With standardised data structures, role-based security, and seamless integration with Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI, teams can automate processes, reduce duplication, and gain real-time visibility across all projects while ensuring data remains accurate, consistent, and accessible.
Health & Safety Compliance Automation
Streamline health and safety processes by automating RAMS approvals, toolbox talk sign-offs, and certification management. Automated workflows can route approvals to the right people, send reminders before certifications expire, and maintain a complete audit trail of safety activities across all sites, helping to improve compliance, reduce administrative effort, and support regulatory requirements.
Project & Cost Visibility Dashboards
Gain real-time visibility into project performance with live dashboards that bring together project costs, programme timelines, plant utilisation, and subcontractor performance in a single view. By replacing manual spreadsheet reconciliation and delayed reporting, project teams can monitor progress, identify risks early, and make informed decisions based on up-to-date data.
Secure AI-Powered Search & Copilot
Unlock the value of your project data with Microsoft Copilot and secure AI-powered search. Teams can quickly find information across contracts, drawings, correspondence, and site documents, generate summaries, and get answers from their own data in seconds. All access is governed by existing Microsoft 365 permissions, ensuring sensitive project and commercial information remains secure and visible only to authorised users.
Who it's for
Main contractors
Project cost control, subcontractor management, and compliance reporting in one connected system.
Site & Frontline Teams
Operations & Back-Office Teams
Why use Power Platform?
%
average ROI reported by organisations using Power Platform
faster workflow automation build, with generative AI capabilities
months or less - typical payback period on Power Platform investment
Source: The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Power Platform, a study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by Forrester Consulting, 2024.
Flyte’s suite of Power Apps Templates
Leave Request App
Many organisations are still using a manual leave request application process that is time consuming, inefficient, and frustrating for employees. Our leave request app has been built leveraging the Microsoft Power Platform, and can be accessed through your company intranet and Microsoft Teams.
Asset Management
Built leveraging Microsoft Power Apps and Microsoft SharePoint, the Asset Management App allows your organisation to keep a digital record of all physical devices, and the activity relating to each asset. This makes it easier to allocate resources, plan for projects, and ensures employees are held accountable for the condition of the devices that they use.
Clock in
Our Clock In app provides a streamlined solution for shift working employees to record worked hours within the Microsoft 365 environment. Accessed through a personal or shared device, clock data is stored for payroll to access and overtime hours can be accrued and redeemed if required.
Personal Development
Replace paper-based questionnaires with our digital survey that can easily be customized for every employee. Once the appraisal is complete, set actions within the app.
Reminders can be sent to employees and leadership to ensure actions are completed, and allowing progress to be tracked.
Expenses Tracking
Our Expenses app gives your employees the ability to quickly and easily submit personal, mileage, and company credit card expense requests. It also allows your finance team to efficiently track and respond to requests.
Overtime Tracking
Our Overtime App simplifies the entire overtime process by giving employees the ability to easily apply for overtime, and for leadership to quickly respond to any requests. Introducing the Overtime App will result in improved efficiency, reduced administration time, and improved record keeping within your organisation.
Guest Sign In
Our Guest Sign In application delivers benefits including reducing operational costs and increasing efficiency with a professional, branded touchpoint for users. As a digital application, this solution meets GDPR compliance regulations unlike outdated, paper based methods.
Bespoke Development
Work with us to develop a technology solution for your business. The Microsoft Power Platform comprises a powerful set of tools which can be utilised to develop solutions to optimise business processes, data analytics, productivity and beyond. We can help design, build, and deploy a solution to meet your specific needs and goals and help your business thrive.
Custom Microsoft 365 & Power Platform Solutions Built Around Your Business
Construction businesses rarely fit neatly into off-the-shelf software. That’s where custom Power Platform development comes in: using tools you already have (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, SharePoint, and Copilot), Flyte builds solutions tailored to how your sites actually operate.
Think a simple app for logging site diaries, an automated RAMS approval workflow, a SharePoint hub that finally organises your drawings and contracts properly, or secure AI that helps your team find answers in seconds instead of digging through folders – no spreadsheets, no steep learning curve, nothing extra to manage.
Ongoing Microsoft 365 and Power Platform Support You Can Rely On
A new solution’s value comes from keeping it running well as your projects evolve. Flyte’s support service gives you that peace of mind – so your team can focus on delivering the build, not managing the technology.
We don’t just fix things when they break. We proactively monitor performance, resolve issues quickly, and make ongoing improvements; whether that’s a Power Automate flow, a Power BI report, or a SharePoint document library that’s grown unwieldy.
Whether you rely on a few critical flows or a full suite of Power Platform and SharePoint solutions, our support scales to fit your business.
Case Studies | Microsoft Power Platform & SharePoint
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Frequently Asked Questions
Does our construction business need an IT team to use Power Platform?
No IT department is required. Power Platform is built around low-code tools, meaning site managers, commercial teams, and compliance leads can build and maintain dashboards, workflows, and apps themselves.
How does Flyte help us get the most from the licenses we already have?
Before recommending anything new, Flyte reviews what your existing Microsoft 365 or Power Platform licensing already includes – many construction businesses are sitting on unused Power Apps, Power Automate, and SharePoint entitlements. A contractor on Microsoft 365 Business Premium, for example, can typically build several apps and automated flows, and set up a properly structured SharePoint site, at no extra cost. We only recommend stepping up to premium licensing when a solution genuinely needs it – such as premium connectors, Dataverse storage, or higher usage volumes for a site-wide inspection app.
Is our project and site data secure if we start using AI tools like Copilot?
Yes – Microsoft’s AI tools, including Copilot, are built on the same enterprise-grade security model as the rest of Microsoft 365. Role-based access controls mean AI-generated answers only ever draw on documents and data a person is already permitted to see – nothing leaks across projects, clients, or commercial boundaries. Flyte builds every AI deployment with this governance in place from day one, and as an ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials accredited partner, we follow strict data handling practices throughout every project.
We currently run site processes on paper – how disruptive is moving to digital?
Less than most teams expect. Flyte starts by mapping your existing paper forms and processes, then builds mobile equivalents that mirror how your teams already work, so there’s minimal retraining. We typically run new and old processes side by side for a short handover period on live sites, so day-to-day work is never interrupted.
Our drawings, RAMS, and contracts are scattered across email, shared drives, and site cabins – can SharePoint really fix that?
Is Power Platform suitable for smaller contractors and subcontractors?
Yes. Smaller contractors can start with a single app – like a site diary or defect log – or a single SharePoint site for one project, and expand over time. Licensing is flexible, and because the tools are low-code, smaller teams can manage and grow their setup without dedicated IT resource.
Can Power Platform handle multiple sites or projects under one dashboard?
Can Power Platform connect to our existing ERP, accounting, or project management system?
How can Power Automate help with health & safety compliance?
How quickly can we get a site inspection app or SharePoint document hub up and running?
A basic mobile inspection app or a single-project SharePoint site can typically be live within a number of days. More complex builds covering multiple sites, integrations, or AI-powered search may take two to four weeks depending on data readiness.
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