How Heyday scaled up to deliver Western Sydney Airport, and beyond

An appetite for scale, and a new level of challenge

Heyday Group is one of Australia’s leading Tier 1 electrical contractors, taking on large-scale, high-compliance projects across commercial construction and infrastructure.  When awarded the electrical works for Western Sydney Airport, Heyday faced a challenge unlike anything before: a massive, fast-paced build.  At the same time, the industry itself was shifting.

"A shift in the last 5 years, particularly with some of the large government-funded projects... they demand high requirements for compliance and quality documentation and submissions."

Their existing QA process, entirely paper-based, had served them well on smaller projects but here, it was a bottleneck they could no longer afford.

Without a change, they risked drowning in admin, losing control of quality, and frustrating clients with slow, incomplete documentation. 

A partner to match their ambition

With the stakes so high on their 45-year history's biggest project, Heyday knew they needed more than just a tool; they needed a strategic partner.  They chose CONQA because it offered a clear, actionable plan to tackle the project's massive scale. 

"For us, the importance is on the set up of the QA and commissioning boards from the get go is paramount to the success of implementing the system."

With CONQA, Heyday:

1. Created a digital QA library so every checklist was accessible in the field
2. Set up the Western Sydney Airport project in CONQA, tailored to their workflow
3. Enabled real time QA capture for teams to capture and sign off checklists live from site
4. Improved transparency of work, by giving both Heyday and the client live visibility of progress

What has changed since using CONQA?

Proof of work as it's completed

Since adopting CONQA on the Western Sydney Airport job, Heyday's QA is now completed on time, and with evidence.  Photos, notes and timestamps are captured on the spot, and progress is visible to all stakeholders instantly.

“Using CONQA means we can provide live data updates on progress to both internal senior management and our client representative at the click of a button"

Reduced administrative workload

Where project managers previously spent hours chasing physical paperwork from site, they can now verify completed work in real-time from a single dashboard, eliminating the administrative bottleneck of pen and paper QA.

"We would normally have someone have to enter all of our records into a tracker if we wanted to monitor our status and progress on the project.  But with CONQA, we don't need to have that resource to do that because the data's coming directly live from the site."

The result: Heyday Group has the tools to unlock the next tier of growth