Alert your construction team of bad weather conditions

Alert your construction team of bad weather conditions

Jul 14, 2024

The Client

SBC (Redacted) is a construction company that operates in the Washington Lake (WA) area, where the weather is not particularly stable due to its frequent changes in cloud cover and precipitation.

The Challenge

  • SBC was losing money and risking lawsuits due to wind gusts damaging materials and exposing workers to injuries
  • Pam, Director of Operations, couldn’t concentrate on her work as she needed to monitor weather forecast to alert her team on time.
  • She decided to reach out to us for help 🙋

The Solution

We’ve built a simple workflow with OpenWeather that would alert for wind gusts and squalls to the team via WhatsApp
  • Set up area of interest
  • Triggers with a weather alert.
  • Alert data is shared on WhatsApp

The Results

  • SBC earned time to prepare against bad weather conditions.
  • Workers felt safe and taken care of.
  • Pam could get back to do value-added tasks that could project her into a promotion.

Tech Used

  • Weather by Zapier for a simpler workflow
  • Windy.app for more robust weather monitoring