When Vlad Rotaru leaves the office trailer at the Toronto construction site where he works, the most important tool he carries — apart from the hard hat and safety vest he wears — is his smartphone.
The 22-year-old received his mechanical engineering degree in April from the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Oshawa, recently rebranded the Ontario Tech University, and is now a mechanical-electrical-plumbing co-ordinator for Deltera.
He’s located on a project called The Well, a residential and commercial development in Toronto’s downtown core, one of the biggest job sites in Canada.
The technology on Rotaru’s cellphone makes his line of work “just all around less tedious,” he says.
His employer is one of growing number of construction companies to use web and mobile software applications to connect the back office to the construction site, collapsing data from armloads of technical drawings and countless spreadsheets and emails into something that fits in a back pocket.
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