Digital Reporting
In construction, profitability depends on a company’s ability to manage risks. Projects are complex, and even with careful oversight many are derailed when minor...
From App to Custom Reporting
For more than 35 years, GivenHansco has been an innovative leader in developing integrated, producer-driven software products for the ready-mix construction industry. GivenHansco has...
Elevation Pro
InSite Software's latest takeoff software, Elevation Pro, has brought earthwork takeoff and GPS machine control modeling to a whole new level. This new software...
Net Present Value
The construction accounting process is a system of tracking payable invoices, accounts receivable, payroll, and producing financial statements. Keeping everything organized can be a...
Seeing the Future with 5D Macro BIM
It’s not often that a technique or technology comes along that gets total buy-in from general contractors and permanently changes an industry for the...
Game Day Analysis
By AJ Waters
Team sports—whether soccer, basketball, or football—depend on combining individual assignments into a common plan to create success. By doing so, the goal...
Scheduling Toolbox
When Ranjeet Gadhoke, vice president of project controls at Zachry Construction Corporation, went looking for a schedule-data analysis tool, he experimented with numerous options,...
Augmented Reality: 3 Ways Next-Gen Technology Cuts Job Inefficiencies
The commercial construction industry has an efficiency problem. According to a study by McKinsey, construction has had the lowest productivity gains of any industry...
Manage Documents Like A Pro: Part 1
Running a construction company requires handling a lot of paperwork. Contractors easily use more than a dozen documents during the course of a job....
The Cloud: Part 2 Changing the dynamic of field-to-office communication
Part 1 of this article presented the backstory of technological evolution and the emergence of the cloud, leading to the big question: How can...