This article is part of a blog series on new technologies, like virtual design and visualization, that are often used in construction project management. When we discuss these technologies, the term used is Virtual Design and Construction (VDC).
Changes in construction projects constantly occur when the construction of the asset progresses.
Construction projects involve multidisciplinary, multi-actor collaboration during the project lifecycle, including building maintenance actors. How do they update their records?
Most construction companies update their work schedules daily or weekly. They do it within 1–2 days of becoming aware of a situation requiring modification.
On a construction project, it is important to gather the pertinent data and analyze it quickly to help improve quality and the overall operational performance of your company.
Planning and managing processes at various stages of design, construction, handover, and maintenance have to be automated and streamlined.
Modeling and visualization is an important part of your projects and could benefit by introducing modern technologies.
Collaboration, data management, and training are crucial aspects of your projects and need to be an integral part of your project management.
Technologies that fit with your current workflow are a basic step before fully embracing management software and automation.
Allowing your people to work collaboratively and interdependently, whilst integrating your processes through automated systems, may improve your quality output and speed up your project delivery.
To improve communication and optimize information flow, you should use collaborative and planning tools on the cloud, such as video conferencing and private instant messaging. These tools enable real-time communication, centralized data access, and streamlined workflows, leading to increased efficiency and reduced errors.
Adopting virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) software can help all stakeholders visualize the new design's proportions, views, and dimensions.
BIM execution planning, scoping, assigning tasks, scheduling, budgeting, verifying, and managing changes and issues that occur through the project's lifecycle, helps you to appropriately document and communicate data to reduce the risk of errors, avoid clashes, and eradicate lengthy reworks. This will help you to reduce material and worker time waste.
Implementing the above strategies will boost your profitability, improve your cash flow management by identifying and optimizing unnecessary spending, making it easy, speedy, and accurate.
Organize your data by projects, with tracking possibilities in real-time.
The reusability of data will help you accelerate the pre-design process and improve budget estimate accuracy.
Interoperability facilitates your data transmission and data integrity. It reduces data errors and inconsistency, boosts your projects’ profitability and delivery, and more accurate documentation helps you settle legal disputes easily and rapidly.
Using good data increases documentation quality. It facilitates clear, accurate, and organized record-keeping, which reduces errors, improves communication, and enhances overall project efficiency.
Building your assets in compliance with ISO 14001 (environment) and being compliant with ISO 19650 (BIM) standards can assist in addressing climate change issues.
All this is great, but how would you know if you need a management system?
Whilst managing a construction project, you should draft and get contracts.
If you estimate accurately the jobs you require for your projects to keep tasks moving forward and complete your project with high quality, you will keep your customers happy and coming back.
Using software tools will help you to be organized and efficient. These tools are good to increase your productivity as they ensure project supervision is exceptional and improve customer satisfaction.
Digital construction management software can solve the issues discussed in the next paragraphs.
Coordination in construction projects reassures your clients that deadlines will be met.
Clear communication with all trades means that your projects are delivered in sequence, on time, and budget. Sharing information internally and externally can avoid a breakdown in communication about the progress of the projects.
For example, if you must reschedule a project’s start date, as the equipment is unavailable, and you do not inform the project manager, the miscommunication may badly impact your relationships with your client.
Using construction software, you improve internal and external communication, helping you correct inefficiencies for the project team.
By storing contacts and progress in one place, you can check a project's status.
Scheduling the right trade, for the right jobs, at the right time, and keeping all stakeholders informed by sending automatic real-time notifications about project developments, you can answer clients’ questions easily and quickly.
Paperwork organization is essential to run construction projects, but most people spend too much time searching for the right documents, such as missing invoices, clients, and project details.
Management software manages your documents efficiently, so you can upload and save all your files, paperwork, and communication in one repository.
Accessing these documents from any device, anywhere, via the internet, you can answer clients’ questions even if you are not in the office.
Coordinating the project teamwork helps you to deliver the project on time and on budget, and get more time to respond to bids.
Too many estimates are waiting on your desk to be calculated and sent. Unfortunately, you are constantly chased by clients to get their quotes.
With management software, you can automate mundane tasks such as calculating estimates and producing quick budgets.
Building detailed cost estimates and timelines within minutes helps you to accurately price materials by searching costs by postcode, create purchase orders, and work orders simultaneously.
You can then produce reports that compare actual costs versus budgeted costs regularly to please your clients.
The right construction management software should address the root cause of your challenges.
Construction management platforms like Plannerly are effective in improving your project management processes, such as planning, coordination, and monitoring construction progress.
The best management software for the construction industry must meet the needs of all types of projects - residential, commercial, institutional, industrial, highway, and heavy civil.
Good software is adaptable to users’ requirements and handles projects of any size and any level of complexity.
Modern software, as a service (SaaS), offerings are secure and reliable, as well as available anywhere on any device. They can produce project data that makes a difference in the job site productivity.
Fortunately, they are affordable, and you can have a quick payoff.
Ensure you can easily deploy the software to access data in real-time, helping you to manage the information provided during the design and construction phases.
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