quantity take-offs for estimating. The owner also recognizes significant savings through increased productivity. We used to pay a project engineer to manually post and update drawings throughout a project which might take as much as 8 hours / week or in recent times have that same project engineer manually hyperlink the details of the drawings taking 40-60 hours that the beginning of a project. Today, we can post the drawings within minutes of receiving an RFI response or automatically hyperlink the details of the drawings. Another advantage is the real-time collaboration on documents between team members. A document can be posted on Studio and marked-up or commented on by multiple reviewers at the same time eliminating routing delays or duplicate efforts.
While this is one example, there are a number of construction software providers that are unveiling new technology designed to improve communication between project stakeholders. Which of these innovations you would like to use in the upcoming years? There are a lot of construction software programs on the market. They all range in price and capability. We really try to remain agnostic to specific software as most owners will employ their own. Our goal is to use their system and minimize or eliminate the double entry of data. One of the downfalls I see in the industry with electronic project management is everyone requiring the information is put in their system. This requires you to log-in to two systems and input the data twice so it is in your system and the owners.
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