iPhone app to help building firms clean up

AN Irish company has launched an iPhone application to help building firms clean up construction sites more efficiently and cheaply.

SmartBuilder Software, based at NovaUCD, the innovation and technology transfer centre at University College Dublin, developed the Site Clean Up application after market research showed a demand for a practical solution for the problem of rubbish left behind by sub-contractors on building sites.

This leads to untidy and potentially unsafe sites with main contractors having to employ additional staff to clean up the sites.