PlanGrid partnered with FMI Corporation to survey construction leaders about how teams spend time and leverage technology investments. The results indicate that time spent on non-optimal activities such as fixing mistakes, looking for project data and managing conflict resolution accounts for $177.5 billion in labor costs per year in the U.S. alone. The study found ...

As a subcontractor, you need to provide high quality, experienced tradespeople and excellent service. But that’s only a small portion of what you do. Your job is to meet productivity demands, stay on schedule and stay on budget. While other professionals balance those same responsibilities in the air for their own business, you have to ...

Weak technology in the field has historically limited improving how Heavy Civil and Infrastructure projects are approached. When field teams are unable to communicate and receive real-time feedback from engineers and designers, entire projects suffer. The ability to curtail costs and complete work within budget is key to managing the world’s growing infrastructure needs. In ...

As a subcontractor, you need to provide high quality, experienced tradespeople and excellent service. But that’s only a small portion of what you do. Your job is to meet productivity demands, stay on schedule and stay on budget. There are a lot of ways that Construction Productivity Software streamlines your efficiency and keeps your team ...

While many factors contribute to construction project cost overruns, the primary factor is low productivity. In fact, construction is one of the few industries that is less productive now than it was 60 years ago. Low construction productivity costs the global economy $1.6 trillion a year. As costs from inefficiencies continue to soar, the construction ...

The final days of a project have a huge impact on your project’s overall profitability and success—projects are remembered not by how they start, but how they finish. If something goes wrong at the end, your “perfect” project can easily turn into an absolute nightmare. Yet managing closeout project is difficult. It takes careful planning ...

Weak technology in the field has historically limited improving how Heavy Civil and Infrastructure projects are approached. When field teams are unable to communicate and receive real-time feedback from engineers and designers, entire projects suffer. The ability to curtail costs and complete work within budget is key to managing the world’s growing infrastructure needs. In ...

While many factors contribute to construction project cost overruns, the primary factor is low productivity. In fact, construction is one of the few industries that is less productive now than it was 60 years ago. Low construction productivity costs the global economy $1.6 trillion a year. As costs from inefficiencies continue to soar, the construction ...

Rework due to poor document control costs the U.S. construction industry $4.2 billion a year. An inconsistent record set is a primary cause of rework, which negatively impacts construction productivity and the bottom line. Imagine being able to update an entire team’s sheets in real-time without having to wait for a new set to be ...

The final days of a project have a huge impact on your project’s overall profitability and success—projects are remembered not by how they start, but how they finish. If something goes wrong at the end, your “perfect” project can easily turn into an absolute nightmare. Yet managing closeout project is difficult. It takes careful planning ...