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This article is part of a blog series on the Virtual Design and Construction world. What can we expect it to bring to the construction industry?
Changes in construction projects occur all the time when the construction of the asset progresses.
Construction projects involve multi-discipline, multi-actor collaboration during the project lifecycle, including building maintenance actors. Autodesk commissioned a study where only 42% of contractors report that they update schedules daily or weekly. In this pool, 20% say that they update the schedule within 1-2 days of becoming aware of a situation requiring schedule modification.
On a construction project, it is important to gather the pertinent data and analyze it, use data to help improve project quality and the overall operational performance of your company.
Construction management platforms like Plannerly effectively improve processes like planning, coordinating, and monitoring construction progress.
The best management software for the building and construction industries can meet the needs of all residential, commercial, institutional, industrial, highway, and heavy civil projects. They are adaptable to users’ requirements and they can manage projects of any size and any level of complexity.
Modern software as a service (SaaS) offerings are secure and dependable, available anywhere on any device. They can produce effective project data which will improve job site productivity, have a quick payoff, be easily deployed, access data at any time, and manage budgets, resources, and documents.
The planning and managing processes at various design stages, construction, handover, maintenance, modeling and visualization, collaboration, data management, and training.
Introduce modern technologies that fit with your current workflow.
Implement the basics required, before fully embracing management software and automation.
Allow your people to work collaboratively and interdependently, by integrating your processes through automated systems, which are transparent and seamless.
Bring all project data to a single dashboard, and use a collaborative set to plan tools on the cloud.
Utilize video conference and private instant messaging tools.
Adopt virtual and augmented reality software to help all stakeholders visualize the new design's proportions, views, and dimensions.
Improve data management, retrieval, and storage of historical data with the help of artificial intelligence.
Collaborate to establish the BIM execution plan, and scope, assign tasks, schedule, budget, verify, and manage changes and issues through the project's lifecycle.
The above helps to appropriately document and communicate data to reduce the risk of errors, avoid clashes, eradicate lengthy reworks, lower costly material wastes, boost profitability, ease cash flow, and comply with ISO 19650 (BIM).
#### Good data management
Manage data to improve the organization of information collected from different projects and track them in real time.
The reusability of data speeds up the pre-design process and increases budget estimate accuracy.
Interoperability facilitates data transmission and data integrity, data input errors and inconsistency, to boost projects’ profitability, project delivery, and documentation.
More accurate data will reduce the amount of conflicts, and so legal disputes are settled efficiently.
Sustainable assets are built in compliance with ISO 14001 (environment).
Cashflow management is made easy, speedy, and accurate by identifying and optimizing unnecessary spending.
All this is great, but how would you know if you needed a management system?
Software tools will help you be organized, and efficient, increase productivity, facilitate project supervision, and improve customer satisfaction. Using digital construction management software will help you solve the following issues.
Coordination in construction projects comforts your clients that deadlines will be met, and all trades work will be delivered in sequence, on time, and within budget.
Sharing information internally and externally can avoid a breakdown in communication about the progress of the projects.
For example, if you reschedule a project’s start date due to equipment unavailability, but do not inform the project manager, the miscommunication can impact the client's relationship.
Construction software helps improve internal and external communication, and correct inefficiencies for the project team. It also stores contacts and progress in one place, checks a project's status, and schedules the right trade for the right jobs at the right time.
The software informs stakeholders by sending automatic real-time notifications about project developments, answering clients’ questions easily and quickly.
Paperwork organization is essential to run construction projects properly, but most people spend too much time searching for the right documents, missing invoices, client details, and project details.
Management software manages your documents efficiently so you can upload and save all your files, paperwork, and communication in one repository.
You may access these documents from any device, from anywhere, if you are connected to the internet. It helps you to answer clients’ questions even if you are not in the office, coordinate the project teamwork, deliver the project on time and budget, and get more time to respond to bids.
Too many estimates are waiting to be calculated and sent, so your clients constantly chase you to get the quotes.
Management software can automate mundane tasks, calculate estimates, produce quick budgets, and build detailed cost estimates and timelines within minutes.
Good software accurately prices material by searching costs by postcode, creating purchase orders and work orders, and producing reports that compare actual costs versus budgeted costs.
The right construction management software address the root cause of your challenges.
Using the right project management platform for your needs brings you the best-expected outcomes and benefits.
You can expect to remove communication barriers, improve the planning and coordination of field operations, connect external stakeholders to your construction firm, and clarify internal project requirements, using dashboards, shared calendars, and task scheduling.
Budgets, forecasts, and accounting results are excellent features in construction management software. They allow you to prepare the estimate of costs as part of project control.
The software automatically reuses historical cost performance records from previous projects, determines standards for the construction methods involved, estimates the resources required, supports calculating the bid prices for the job, records the project expenditure automatically in the accounting software, provides data for the budget dashboard, tracks and monitors progress and creates invoices automatically.
Managing resources with management software involves:
Sharing documentation among team members and external stakeholders is a great software capability. If integrated with other systems it helps automate processes like access to information sources, blueprints, specifications, and digital plans.
A document management system produces the correct and latest information with fewer errors and simplifies decision-making thanks to data storage and standardized document templates.
To increase your market share you need specific features in your management software.
Project management software helps to implement efficient business processes, complete projects faster, increase return on investment, create and manage jobs, keep your expenditures under control, save time, reduce manual labor, and facilitate business process automation.
Plannerly is a cloud-based BIM Management tool for architectural, engineering, construction companies, and building owners. It is designed to simplify BIM implementation by automating the planning process, collaboratively and accurately scheduling the project tasks, monitoring the project progress, improving collaboration and communication, maximizing efficiency, saving time, and reducing cost by avoiding clashes and lengthy reworks.
Procore is a cloud-based software that connects the entire business process, from bidding to closeout, with every member of your team working together in the same system. This is achieved by improving communication for a remote workforce, reducing the effort of documenting and communicating issues on construction sites, simplifying data exchange and review of project progress, meeting deadlines and project goals and objectives, reducing the burden of planning training requirements, mitigating the risks of litigations, reducing insurance premium costs, and validating each deliverable for compliance before use.
Any software has its challenges. Construction management software is no exception, there are risks and issues associated with the implementation of the software.
Here are the challenges you may have to deal with:
Integrate all your automated processes into a single solution.
Avoid entering the same data repeatedly.
Ensure the software helps analyze productivity, transmit and access data in real-time, speed up user adoption, and comply with security standards.
Train your personnel to perform their work competently using the software.
Finance the software cost and get the right support from the software providers, especially if you want to customize it.
The increasing demand for construction project management software pushed software providers to be creative with their offerings:
SaaS are cloud-based solutions for which you pay a monthly fee, instead of buying it outright, and you can use the software as a service. With SaaS, you can access data with any web-enabled device.
SaaS applications give users mobility, save time, improve collaboration, and enhance productivity if integrated with the software.
You collect data throughout the project lifecycle. Reusing data properly on future projects can improve their quality.
Project management software providers include data analytics tools.
Choosing and working with construction project management software is challenging but it is offset by the benefits you get.
Before choosing the right project management software you should ask yourself the following questions:
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