What Spreadsheets Lack

Advantages of using construction management software By Michael Wright While the construction industry loves new tools and technology for the jobsite, the industry has been much...

Team Effort

Some construction companies use dedicated schedulers to produce project schedules, a practice that can exclude the perspective from those in the field responsible for...

Better Analysis

Brandon Howell, vice president of scheduling for Layton Construction Company, LLC, has been fascinated by schedule analytics for a long time. “I’ve always had...

Schedule Maintenance

Solving Tomorrow’s Problems Today Have you enabled your project teams to build their projects as fast and efficiently as they can and proactively forecast and...

The Method for Data Collection

In 1999, Scott Deaton was finishing his Ph.D. at Georgia Tech where the goal of his research was focused on improving the process of...

Artificial Intelligence

A project manager wants a healthy project, yet few construction projects are delivered on time, on budget, with proper quality, and customer satisfaction. It sounds...

The Problem With Paper

Futuristic-sounding tech developments regularly make the news. In comparison, “going paperless” can seem very 1990s. But paper is still used daily in the construction...

Smarter Decisions: 4 Metrics to Move the Needle on Profitability

By Jenn Said From job costs to material quantities and equipment usage to labor and production stats, construction projects produce significant amounts of data. While...
Training software users

The Case for Software Training

The construction industry has become more complex and technologically sophisticated. Gone are the days when a smart owner/operator and his backhoe could handle most...

Utilizing Mobile Technology for Efficiency and Profit

It is easy to be overwhelmed by the tsunami of technology being pushed on us daily. Business is perpetually challenged to: leverage it, make...