Electronic Forms

By Greg Norris  COVID-19 didn’t create the need for effective health and safety programs, but the current climate heightens awareness of how paper-based safety processes...

Using Information Technology

In 2001, 20 years after wide-acceptance of the IBM-PC (and compatibles), a person could still have a job where the use of computers was...

Adopting Construction Management Software

For companies that don’t use construction project management software, there’s typically a plan table in the trailer housing full-size drawing sets that the team...
GDPR

GDPR and your Enterprise Software

Most enterprise software applications do not yet have features that deal with the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). There are standalone...
Construction Accounting Software

Take Care of the Little Things

When managing your business, it’s important that you stay on top of everything, including the little things. Because, eventually, missing the little things can...
change order management

Manage Change Orders Like A Pro

In construction, change is a way of life. Very rarely does a construction project go from beginning to completion without changes to the original...
The cloud is perfect for the building industry.

Cloud-Based Software for the Building Industry: Chaos to Collaboration

Have you ever seen a project manager walk into an architect’s office? What follows is oftentimes chaotic. Seeing a project manager walk into an...

The Switch from Spreadsheets

Estimating software does more than improve bidding speed and accuracy Competitive estimating is the starting point for most heavy construction projects, and building winning bids...
public jobs

Public Jobs Made Easy

There are a lot of requirements of contractors when performing public jobs. They have to get a payment bond from a bank, produce minority...

Digital Transformation

If you’ve followed the predictions of construction industry technologists over the last decade you could be forgiven for skepticism about the current hype. Similar...