How Spitfire Homes eliminated their reporting admin with One.site, a single source of verified site data.

Overview

Every check-in does more than open the gate.

Spitfire Homes, part of IM Group, is one of the Midlands' fastest-growing independent housebuilders. With an expanding portfolio of sites across the region and a reputation built on design quality and customer service, delivering consistent, compliant site operations at scale is a non-negotiable for them.

Spitfire Homes has used One.site across 14 total sites since July 2022. What started as a way to manage remote inductions and site attendance has become something more: a single source of verified data that feeds three separate compliance and reporting obligations, with no additional admin required to produce any of them.

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Challenge

Safety reporting, planning compliance, and carbon accounting all needed the same information, and it had to be chased every time a report was needed.

Calculating an Accident Frequency Rate requires total hours worked on site. On top of that, Section 106 obligations increasingly require evidence of local labour, and Scope 3 carbon reporting requires commuting data.

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Previously, gathering this information involved coordinating with teams across multiple sites and consolidating data from different sources. This added time and complexity to the preparation of board reports and planning returns, creating an opportunity to streamline the process.

50
Hours saved on reporting annually
12
Months of rolling data AFR data updated every month , without manual work.
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Compliance obligations covered with one sign in
Solution

Spitfire Homes found that One.site could capture everything they needed

Every time an operative or member of the Spitfire team checks in, One.site records who they are, when they arrived, how long they spent on site, and the distance they travelled to get there.
That single event feeds into four separate reporting requirements:

  • Accident Frequency Rate reporting. AFR data is something that boards, insurers and auditors require. Each month, Spitfire pulls the previous 12 months of hours recorded by operatives on site directly from One.site. Combined with any reported incidents, that produces a rolling AFR in minutes, rather than days.
  • Section 106 and social value returns. The same check-in data includes operative distance of travel. This supports local labour evidence for planning obligations and social value reporting, a growing requirement for residential schemes across the country.
  • Apprenticeship commitment tracking. One.site enables Spitfire Homes to identify apprentices working on each development and monitor subcontractors’ delivery against agreed apprenticeship commitments. This provides a consistent evidence base for contractor reviews, social value reporting and targeted follow-up where commitments are not being met.
  • Scope 3 carbon reporting. Commuting distance can also feed directly into Spitfire's Scope 3 calculations. No additional surveys or manual data collection from site teams is required.

Since One.site captures verified, timestamped attendance data across every site, it doubles as a reporting platform, without any extra admin required. Before One.site, gathering the data for these reporting requirements meant finding data in multiple places. Now, one set of check-in data answers safety, planning and sustainability questions with no extra admin needed.

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Before One.site, producing reports often meant gathering information from several different sources. We can now use the data captured through each site check-in to support a range of reporting requirements, from safety and local labour to apprenticeships and carbon emissions. This has created a much more consistent and efficient reporting process, saving valuable time across the business.

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