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About The Client
Meet Civeo: An Expert in Remote Workforce Accommodation
Civeo is a world class remote accommodation specialist dedicated to project success and guest well-being. A trusted housing provider in the energy, mining and construction sectors, Civeo owns and operates seventeen camps and lodges across North America and Australia. At camp, Civeo provides comprehensive on-site catering and facilities management. By providing best-in-class accommodation, Civeo supports clients in attracting and retaining qualified workers who are vital to the success of their remote projects.
About the Operation
Civeo Trusted to Manage Thousands of Room Bookings Across Multiple Sites and to Day-to-Day Lodge Operations
In 2008, Civeo was brought on by the Fluor Corporation–a construction firm contracted by Kearl Project owner Imperial Oil–to assist with online room bookings and to provide camp management and catering services for five lodges serving the Kearl Oil Sands Project. Civeo worked closely with the Fluor Corporation to facilitate various aspects of the project’s accommodation needs, including:
- Room allocation for work crews from 30 contractors (totaling 7,000 crew workers)
- Managing frequent changes and cancellations to room reservations
- Maximizing room occupancy across five sites and room forecasting needs
- Providing day-to-day camp management and catering services to five lodges
The Challenge
The Operation Before Camps & Crew
As the Kearl Project scaled towards production, Civeo and Fluor attempted to manage thousands of room reservations on spreadsheets and relied on an antiquated software program to manage day-to-day operations at camp. The challenges that both companies shared prior to implementing the Camps & Crew SmartLodge platform included:
- Room bookings were completed manually by travel coordinators at Civeo and Fluor via email
- A single room booking required 11 back-and-forth emails between Civeo and Fluor (on average) and several days to finalize
- Civeo and Fluor lacked access to the real-time status of an existing room reservation given bookings were managed separately by both companies in Excel
- Coordinators at both companies had no way of knowing if reservations had been modified or cancelled or whether reservation changes had been tracked by the other company
- Occupancy reports circulated between both companies were often inaccurate–lodge occupancy typically did not exceed 65%
- 30 sub-contractors had no way to book their own rooms and depended on coordinators at Fluor and Civeo to field thousands of room requests monthly
- Front desk staff had no reliable way to know whether a room was clean and vacant in real-time
The Solution
SmartLodge Maximizes Room Utilization and Connects Siloed Departments Across Companies and Lodges
When the workforce at the Kearl Project grew to 7,000, consisting of workers from over 30 sub-contracted firms, Civeo turned to the Camps & Crew SmartLodge platform to streamline the room reservation process, increase room occupancy and facilitate the day-to-day operations at the five lodges. After the implementation of SmartLodge, personnel at both Civeo and Fluor achieved greater efficiency across sites and mitigated cost thanks to various SmartLodge features. Key efficiencies included:
Room occupancy at Civeo lodges averaged 98% during peak production after travel coordinators at Civeo and authorized subcontractors were trained to book rooms via the SmartLodge online room reservation portal
Both organizations gained access to real-time operational data and reporting housed in SmartLodge, including: current room occupancy across lodges, room occupancy forecasting by site or asset, meal forecasting, arrivals and departures reports, room status and linen reports, and more
- Duplicate bookings were reduced to zero
SmartLodge enabled Civeo to eliminate duplicate room bookings altogether
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