About Sawhney Buildwell

Sawhney Buildwell LLP is a Dehradun-headquartered construction and general contracting firm with over five decades of industry presence. The company delivers end-to-end construction solutions, from site works and foundations through structural, MEP, and finishing stages, across residential, commercial, institutional, and infrastructure projects. Its capabilities include turnkey/EPC delivery, integrated civil and MEP execution, and specialised assets such as sports facilities and campus infrastructure across multiple Indian cities. Sawhney Buildwell is known for process-driven execution, transparent communication, and on-time delivery backed by coordinated teams and quality systems.

Project Name:

Shalimar Belvedere Suites (GH-12), Shalimar One World Township

Location:

Lucknow

Project Category:

Residential High-Rise (Group Housing)

Belvedere Suites is a premium high-rise development involving complex structural execution and high-precision finishing works. With a total project value of ~$6.6Mn and over 350 critical BOQ line items, the scope covered the entire construction lifecycle, from large-scale earthwork and concrete pours to detailed flooring and dado execution. The vertical scale and pace of execution demanded tight financial control, making real-time, BOQ-linked tracking essential to manage cash flow and cost accuracy across the project.

Complexity of the Project

The “Micro-Billing” Avalanche: The project suffers from extreme invoice fragmentation. While there are only 60+ Master Orders, vendors have submitted a staggering 1,200 partial invoices. Manually reconciling an average of 20 invoices per Purchase Order creates a massive administrative burden and high risk of duplicate billing.
High-Burn Site Operations: The site operates with enormous liquidity requirements. The team has raised $1.25Mn in “Imprest” (Petty Cash) requests to fuel daily labour and material needs. Tracking $1.1Mn of miscellaneous cash flow without a digital audit trail is a significant financial risk.
Complex Scope Transition: The project is pivoting from “Structure” (Shuttering, Reinforcement) to “Finishes” (Flooring, Skirting). This shift changes the tracking metric from “Cubic Meters” to “Square Feet,” requiring a flexible system that can track installed revenue accurately across different units of measurement to ensure the client’s billing (~$5.7Mn) remains accurate.

How RDash Helped

The Strategy: Taming the Paper Trail – We deployed RDash to act as the “Financial CNS” (Central Nervous System) of the project, specifically targeting the chaos of high-volume invoicing and site expenses.

Conquering the ~1200 Invoice Mountain

The biggest challenge was the sheer volume of paper. We digitised the $3.4Mn of Vendor Orders, creating a rigid “Price & Quantity” lock.

When vendors flooded the system with ~1200 separate invoices (totalling ~$3.3Mn), RDash acted as the gatekeeper. The system allowed the commercial team to process and approve ~$5.6Mn Crores of verified work while holding back discrepancies. This “Liability Control” ensured that, despite the flood of bills, not a single rupee was approved without a 3-way match.

Auditing the $1.25Mn Site Wallet

Managing ~$1.25Mn in petty cash is usually a black box. We implemented the Imprest Control Module, requiring every cash request to be tagged to a specific cost head.

The system successfully tracked and approved ~$1.25mn of operational spend, flagging ~$500K for review. This ensured that the site had the funds to run fast, but Finance retained the brakes.

Driving Client Collections

By tracking installed revenue against the ~350 BOQ line items in real-time, the project team could raise accurate, substantiated bills to the developer.

Total Invoiced to Client: ~$5.6Mn.

Total Collected: ~$5.1Mn.

Impact: ~90% collection efficiency, driven by the transparency of the backup data provided by RDash.

When you are building a high-rise, the sheer volume of paper bills can bury you. We were dealing with over a thousand small invoices against our major orders. RDash automated that reconciliation. It gave us the confidence to approve $4.8Mn of payments knowing exactly what work was done, and more importantly, it helped us collect $4.6Mn from our client by proving that work was done. It turned our data into cash flow.

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