Construction & Contracting
Attendance that survives a live site and an audit
- Free site survey
- Enrolment tested on your staff
- All 7 emirates
What goes wrong
The four problems construction operations keep hitting
Headcount never reconciles between camp, bus and site
Workers are counted at the accommodation, again on the bus and again at the site gate, usually by three different people on three pieces of paper. The numbers rarely agree, and by the time they are reconciled the day is over. A single system that logs each movement against one worker ID removes the reconciliation entirely.
Main contractor and client audits demand a defensible trail
Manpower claims, LD disputes and variation orders all rest on proving who was on site on a given day. Paper muster sheets do not survive scrutiny. An immutable punch log with device ID, timestamp and verification method, filtered by project or cost code, does.
Overtime is the largest uncontrolled cost
Where overtime is claimed rather than measured, it inflates. UAE Labour Law rates of 125% and 150% applied to unverified hours compound the problem across hundreds of workers. Automatic calculation against actual punches typically surfaces a material correction in the first cycle.
Fingerprints fail on manual workers
Worn fingerprints from manual labour, plus dust and cement, defeat optical readers on a meaningful share of any construction workforce. Deploying fingerprint-only and discovering a 15% enrolment failure rate after installation is a common and avoidable outcome.
Rugged face recognition at gates and accommodations, with card fallback and GPS mobile clock-in for supervisors and roving staff
Face recognition solves the worn-fingerprint problem, works with gloves and dusty hands, and handles the simultaneous arrival surge at shift start better than touch-based readers.
This is our default starting point for construction, not a fixed answer. The survey exists to confirm or overturn it against your actual site.
Configured for you
What we set up for construction clients
- Project and cost-code tagging on every punch
- Labour accommodation gate logging with bus manifest reports
- GPS-geofenced mobile clock-in for supervisors and roving trades
- Subcontractor and visitor enrolment with expiry dates
- Offline buffering for sites without reliable connectivity
- Manpower histogram reports for client and main-contractor submissions
- UAE Labour Law overtime at 125% / 150% applied automatically
Get a quote for construction
Free site survey with enrolment tested on your actual workforce, then one fixed written quotation.
Questions
Construction — FAQ
Can we track attendance per project when workers move between sites?
Yes. Each device is assigned to a project or cost code, so a worker punching at Site A on Monday and Site B on Tuesday is costed correctly without manual reallocation. Reports can be run per project, per cost code, per subcontractor or per worker.
How do we handle workers who cannot enrol a fingerprint?
Plan for it rather than discovering it. We test enrolment quality on a sample of your actual workforce during the survey. Where fingerprint enrolment fails, face recognition is the primary alternative, with card plus PIN as a fallback for the small residual group. A properly designed site system almost always uses more than one verification method.
Our site has no power or internet at the gate yet. What are the options?
Battery-backed terminals with 4G connectivity handle early-stage sites, and punches buffer locally if the signal drops. As the site develops and permanent services arrive, the same terminals move onto the fixed network without reconfiguration or replacement.
Construction attendance by emirate
- Construction attendance in Abu DhabiSurvey within 48 hours in Abu Dhabi city and Mussafah; 2–3 working days for Al Ain and Al Dhafra
- Construction attendance in DubaiSurvey within 24 hours, installation typically within 48 hours of approval
- Construction attendance in SharjahSurvey within 24–48 hours across all Sharjah industrial areas and free zones
- Construction attendance in Ras Al KhaimahSurvey within 2–3 working days; survey and installation usually combined in one trip
Related solutions
- Labour Accommodation & Remote Site AttendanceAttendance at the accommodation gate, on the transport manifest and at the site entrance — as one record, not three.
- MOHRE-Ready Attendance RecordsA defensible, tamper-evident record of hours worked — the evidence you need when a labour complaint is filed.
- Overtime Tracking Under UAE Labour LawAutomatic 125% and 150% calculation against verified punches, with approval workflow before the cost is incurred.
Biometric attendance for construction
Tell us your site conditions and headcount. An engineer attends, tests enrolment on your actual staff, and you get one written quotation covering hardware, software, installation and training.
Same-day response, on-site survey within 48 hours