BUILDING WITH TRANSPARENCY

Friday, February 02, 2018

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BUILDING WITH TRANSPARENCY: HOW OUR CONSTRUCTION SOFTWARE SAVES TIME, MONEY & HEARTACHE

Why is transparency important on the jobsite? Who benefits from it? And, how can you more easily offer it?

trans·par·ent

/transˈperənt/

adjective

having thoughts, feelings, or motives that are easily perceived.

Let’s take a look at why thoughts, feelings and motives that are easily perceived all have an important role in construction management. We’re referring to transparency on the job, a demand of today’s informed and savvy market.

Communication Frustration

As the project manager or builder, you have a job to complete. You’ve set out to start and finish that build or remodel to the best of your ability. Everything that needs to be done has been communicated to you and you’ve hit the ground running. But what happens when you’ve worked diligently with your crew, subcontractors and homeowners to hit the nail on the head yet things fall flat anyway?

Revised & Reviewed

For starters, everyone is unhappy. If a few meetings and a couple of checkins were your primary sources of communication, a lot of room was left for error. Sour feelings can be your worst nightmare, especially if someone is unhappy enough to head over to Yelp, Facebook or Google and write you a bad review. Clients can be tricky and if the homeowner isn’t happy, then it makes your job harder and more expensive, which means now your crew and subcontractors are not happy. And neither is your bookkeeper.

You Have A Choice

You could employ a construction management platform that allows all parties to log in and see everything practically in real-time. Alternately, you could have that persnickety client who calls daily, sometimes multiple times per day. Even if you don’t answer, it’s a time and energy suck because you eventually have to answer to her and dreading it only weighs you down. What if that type A client could log in and see all updates with just a few clicks? How much time and operational cost could you save with a web-based construction management software built by builders?

The Light at the End of the Hallway

So, what’s the alternative? We’re talking a punch list broken out by room with the ability to attach photos, schedule due dates and assign to specific members of your team to complete tasks. We’re also talking a separate warranty punch list during the warranty period, completely and fully accessible by the homeowner. Not only that, your team will receive a notification one week before the warranty period expires, so you know what you're walking into before the warranty walk-through ever happens. This way, important dates are never missed.

What about automatic notifications for everything else? Invite clients, team members, contractors and suppliers to important project meetings. Or it could be a bid due date, project task starting date, selection and change order signature due date, punch list due date or other appointments. Whatever it is, it’s all connected to your design-build project in one place, fully transparent to everyone involved.

Keeping It Simple

Everything from the bid-out process to product selections and warranty is held in one SIMPLE place. And we aren’t kidding when we say simple. This software for home builders was built by a home builder and complexity wasn’t an option!

The bottom line is that pleasing your clients can be the toughest part of an already tough job. There are about 1,742 steps along the way whether you are building from scratch or remodeling a kitchen. When you implement the right tools - and we’re not just talking nail guns and table saws - the many steps can be simplified and less painful, allowing you to focus on doing what you love - building great architecture then going home to your family, stress-free.

Don’t Just Take Our Word For It

We hear from builders and homeowners often about how much heartache our construction management software has saved them. It’s how we know we’re on the right track, the same as you’ll know when you try it!

“We have been using Simple Build for about 2 years now and we really love it. Our clients have all been really impressed with the program as well as our subcontractors. It’s been a great tool to help us during the bidding process and throughout the entire build. The process of closing a house has been much smoother since we began using SimpleBuild. It's an amazing sales tool for clients building their first home, clients that have extremely busy work schedules, and simple enough to use for clients building their last home during retirement.“

Scott Lewis, Scott Lewis Homes

If you’re even a little curious, a 30-minute demo will paint enough of the picture for you to know if this investment is for you. And, you might be surprised to learn how affordable SimpleBuild is! Give us a call at (888) 743-9590 or sign up for your free demo here.

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Zachary Wood

9/29/2020