Procore-Project management tools latest update graded A

Procore-Project management tools latest update graded A PM Product Line - The Project Management Tools within Procore are the core tools in your tool box. They are the foundation of a successful project and allow the project team to effectively manage the project from beginning to end. - By leveraging these tools on your projects, you can reduce the risk of costly mistakes, make processes easier for your project team and allow your company to grow by having everyone on one platform that is easy to use and that they can pick up easily as they move from project to project. Emails - you can ensure all communications regarding your project is tracked and centralized in one location. - This allows your project team to spend less time trying to find the one person who said this one thing that one time. Any member can use the Email tool and find the email without ever having to have been included in the original thread. - One of the biggest key takeaways from my construction experience is people move from project to project, the last thing you want is that knowledge and information to leave with them and not stored in this one centralized location. Bidding -combines all the tasks of preparing, sending and comparing bids into one easy to use tool. - Its full intent is to make your life easier and gives the bidders easy to follow instructions to send you their bids for review. - As the tool pulls information from other Procore Tools, you can attach all the important documents and information without ever having to leave Procore. - Then once you have decided who you're going to end up using, you can move forward with their commitment with ease. RFIs - Questions about scope on a project are expected and the RFI tool is your way to manage all those questions and their respective answers. - With one centralized location for all these questions, your team can work faster and ensure issues or concerns are asked once and they don't have to keep coming up. - The ultimate benefit of RFI's on Procore is how good the documentation is while still allowing for a quick-turn around to get the project and teams back to work if the issue has the potential for delays Submittals - Submittals are one of the most critical tasks on any project and therefore Procore has built a tool that manages the process from start to finish so that everyone is on the same page at all times. - With Procore's easy to use tool, your project team can spend less time trying to actually put together a submittal list, keeping the excel sheets updated, keeping track when an email response is sent or if it was ever sent to the subcontractor. - I've lived through it, your excel sheet says approved but you call the subcontractor and they have no idea what you're talking about. This tool holds everyone in the workflow accountable from the sub submitting the information to the architect providing an answer in a timely manner. Meetings - No one likes meetings to begin with, with Procore you can at least make those meetings effective and less of a pain for your project team. - Beginning from setting meeting templates to giving you an easy platform for meeting minutes, your team can stay organized and keep detailed information of every meeting for future use. Schedule - On any construction project, one of the most important topics is schedule, for a client building a hotel or the government building a toll road. The earlier the project is done, the earlier the client can begin making money. - By utilizing the schedule tool on Procore, the full project team can stay on the same page on what they should be working on and what is coming up. This reduces confusion and keeps everyone on the same goals. Photos - The Photos tool is a tool that everyone can get value right away and thats usually because you wont know you wish you had a photo until months later when you're trying to look back at maybe how the formwork looked or even just existing conditions of the project and by having that photo it can save you time and money. - I've worked for companies who have used programs for progress photos or have someone take drone shots once a month. The key to the Procore Tool is that you get to organize the photos, upload them straight from the field and it is unlimited storage so you never have to worry about running out of space and having to pay more Drawings - The Drawings tool provides an excellent central location to manage all of the drawings in a project and having them accessable through the web or a mobile device. - There are A LOT of parties working off of the drawings, the surveyors, all the superintedents, project management, subcontractors and they all need the latest and greatest sets of drawings. I've lived through it, as soon as you print them out, the architect sends a revision. That happens often enough and you can't keep track of who has what. - That is a scary problem to have, with Procore drawings, you keep everyone updated, in the know when new revisions are uploaded and you can rest assure that everyone is building the work right the first time - because of Procore's drawings tool. Specifications (Specs) - The value in the Specifications tool is its ability to have access to it from the office and the field, always up to date and with the ability to search the full document. - I have personally been in the field going back and forth with an inspector talking about unsuitable materials, they say its our responsibility while I know I read that the owner will pay for its replacement. Once I realize that was going no where, I pulled up Procore and went to the specifications, quick search and there it was, not our responsibility. The inspector is right next to me, can read and take note of the page or information and our guys can continue to work without having to delay them to go to the office, grab the spec book and hope I find that one note I read once.