Jonathan Barnes

Contributing Editor

Canadian contractor Graham Group recently saved $35,000 just on printing costs on a single project using Fieldwire field management software.

Manage Project Data in the Cloud to Beat Construction Competition

Cloud project management software simplifies collecting accurate field data, analyzing and collaborating over it, ensuring smoother projects and happier project owners

“Exorbitant payroll, lost paper time cards, inaccurate job costing – once a company has these problems, they need a solution,” says Cliff Mitchell, CEO of ClockShark.

How Time-tracking Technology has Rendered Time Sheets Obsolete

Labor costs have become too high and too crucial to managing construction costs to trust to paper time sheets filled in at the end of a long day or week

Takeoffs are essential to a professional bid. Determining necessary quantities is a painstaking process repeated with each design change, but it can be done with ease using model-based estimating software.

Estimating Software is a Saving Bet

One wrong calculation in an estimate can doom a project before it starts and contractors who want to cut estimating costs in half are dumping the spreadsheets

Flying a commercial drone capable of gathering data of survey-level accuracy has been automated to the point that flights can be launched and controlled from a smart phone. But some contractors may want data-analysis support from a drone service provider.

Which Construction Drone Should You Deploy?

Unmanned aerial vehicles continue raising standards for project knowledge, pressing on contractors the choice to either own the drone process or hire drone services