9 4 Essentials to Consider When Choosing Construction Project Management Software
Construction field management software can reduce confusion, errors, and delays. Using the
wrong drawing or outdated specifications can cause costly mistakes and delays, which can put
your project behind schedule and over budget. These issues can be avoided if you have accurate,
up-to-date information in the hands of everyone who needs it, anywhere on the job site.
But many construction sites have one major barrier: limited to no connection to the network
except in the trailer. Your contractors, subcontractors, vendors, and project managers lose
valuable time running back to the trailer or even the office for the right document, or playing
telephone tag with the foreman, the superintendent, or the project manager to get a simple
question answered.
Even if you have a field mobility solution, delivering information to the field may involve a large
amount of manual preparation. For example, documents may be accessible in the field only
after someone has exported them as PDF files and uploaded them to a file-sharing website.
This approach makes it difficult to track and control versions as well as limit document access to
authorized users.
Some mobile construction management apps on the market deliver a partial solution for field
productivity. However, in most cases users must work with one app to view and manage drawings,
another to work with other documents and data, and so on. And in some areas of the site, a
cellular data connection may be weak or not available at all — making the mobile app useless.
Site workers need mobile access to current drawings, requests for information (RFIs),
specifications, submittals and more so they can help reduce the errors, delays and rework that can
impact project profitability.
"
The job of construction management software
is to make sure that everyone on the job site
has accurate, up-to-date information."
Field Mobility and
Document Management are
a Winning Combination
