Client: Skycore Builders, Industry: High-Rise Construction, Region: Tri-State Area (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut), Scale: 123 major buildings currently underway, with more in the pipeline
Skycore Builders constructs high-rise buildings across the tri-state area — New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. The company is currently in the middle of 123 major buildings, with several more on the horizon.
We spoke with Brian McGillian, Project Superintendent at Skycore Builders, about how the company manages workforce access and safety compliance across its high-rise sites — and why Boxcore has become central to that process.
For Skycore, the first and most pressing challenge was fraud — an ongoing issue across New York City job sites that the company was determined to eliminate entirely from its own projects.
The second major challenge was visibility: knowing exactly who was on a job site at any given time.
Before Boxcore, tracking manpower relied on daily reports and pre-shift meetings with signatures — a manual process that made it difficult to know, in real time, exactly who was on site, which company they worked for, or where they were at any given moment.
Boxcore gives Skycore the ability to know, at the click of a button, who’s on the job, who’s been on, and who’s left the job.
“This system allows us to know at the click of a button who’s on the job, who’s been on, and who’s left the job.”
That same click-of-a-button control extends to manpower tracking more broadly:
“Boxcore has basically a click of a button — again, I can tell who’s on site, what company they’re working for, and where they are on the site at any one time.” — Brian McGillian, Project Superintendent, Skycore Builders
Boxcore also gives Skycore direct control over site access itself. Every worker brought onto a Skycore site is approved individually — and can be barred instantly if needed:
“I have full control of who’s on the site at any one time of the day. So if we bring them in here and I approve them, that means they’re good for the site. If I don’t want them on the site, I can bar them from getting through turnstiles at any one time.” — Brian McGillian, Project Superintendent, Skycore Builders
Credential management is fully automated as well. Know more about Boxcore’s Access Control.
Since adopting Boxcore, Skycore Builders has seen three clear benefits:
1. Real-time manpower tracking. Knowing exactly who’s on site has historically been a persistent challenge — Boxcore now makes that information available instantly, replacing reliance on daily reports and signed pre-shift meeting sheets and significantly cutting down on paperwork.
2. Full control over site access. Skycore approves every worker individually and can bar anyone from turnstile access at any time, giving the team direct, immediate control over exactly who is allowed on a live job site.
3. Automated credential compliance. With advance alerts at 90, 60, and 30 days and automatic lockouts on expiration, Skycore no longer has to track worker training status manually — the system flags and blocks the issue before it becomes a compliance risk on site.
For a company managing 123 major buildings across three states, fraud prevention and real-time workforce visibility aren’t optional — they’re operational necessities. Boxcore gives Skycore the ability to approve, track, and control its workforce down to the individual worker, at any site, at any moment — while automating the credential compliance work that used to depend on manual tracking and signed paperwork.
Know more about Boxcore’s Time and Attendance software.
